Here's my thoughts on the Fifa 2006 career mode, and what it should be:
- Plain and simple make it like Madden 2005. Why you ask here goes.
- Make the career mode longer than 15yrs, maybe like 25-30yrs
- Have the owner mode, you control the prices of everything. Merchandise, Seating/ tickets, Parking, Food, etc..
- You should be able to use that money for Players, coaching/medical staff, Advertising, stadium upgrades, maintaining the stadium so if you see your pitch getting torn up and brown you could fix it so for the next home game the ptich is green and all fixed up. General cleaning, fixing seats etc..
- Make trading players much easier like in madden.
- Having the newspaper option for each league, such as a league newspaper and worldwide football paper from around europe or around the world. Also being able to see other newspapers and scores/results from diffrent leagues around the world.
- Being able to train your players in the offseason like in madden so there skills get developed and being able to see how your players develope every few weeks like in madden.
- Being able to train during the season aswell.
- Chooseing friendly matches with teams from your league and other leagues.
- Get the licensing for the TV stations for each league so each league would be authentic (sp) and realistic as possible.
- I liked the EA Sports radio in Madden 2005 maybe that could be somehow worked into the Fifa franchise mode aswell, being able to here about whats going on in the league your in and possibly some news on other leagues, Like which trades were made that week in your league, and between your league and others, results of the top games in your league and in other leagues, injured players, etc...
- Pick your own captian from game to game.
- During the game show results of other games form your league at that time.
- Here's a shot why not have the option to run a fantasy league during your career mode, just an extra sometihng to make career mode fun.
- Having weekly and yearly awards, weekly should be like top player or top two players of the week, and at the end of the seaon have like Best player (MVP), best Coach, best goalkeeper, best forwards, etc..
- Have the commentators talk more about whats going on in the league like, oh this players has been amazing since hes been traded/signed by such and such team in whatever month or year.
Or be like such and such team is so great no wonder why there in the top 5 or top 3 or even the number one team in the league. etc.. Or have them be like the defending champions (team name here) are really showing them whos the best or why they are the defending champions.
- A trophy room would be amazing, like if you won your leagues championship 3 years in a row each one would show the year you won the team you beat and the score. This would also work if you also won the Champions League, or the UEFA Cup etc..
Well plain and simple follow Maddens footsteps, since madden is the top game here in the US and they get all the awesome modes and option I think they should bring all that into the Fifa franchise with load more options for 2006 and make fifa the TOP simulator in football/soccer games worldwide. EA must realize Football is all over the world and to me thats where they should focus alot on with the career mode, create a team (club), create a player, create a tournament etc.. Make Fifa 2006's career mode somthing we've never seen before and something that will totally blow our minds away!