Games Inbox: Is the EA Sports FC 27 Ultimate Plus Edition worth it?

EA Sports FC 27 – extra ultimate edition (EA) The Friday letters page is exasperated at the technical problems in Halo: Campaign Evolved, as one reader is optimistic about the new Resident Evil movie. Games Inbox is a collection of our readers’ letters, comments, and opinions. To join in with the discussions yourself email gamecentral@metro.co.uk Curious coincidenceSo there’s an Ultimate Plus Edition of EA Sports FC 27 now, that’s even more expensive? And NBA 2K27 has something called an Ultra Edition that’s also more expensive? Well, that sure is an interesting coincidence, that two games from two completely different companies should come up with the same wallet-gouging idea in the same year, in franchises that have been going on for decades (bar a name change). The games industry completely hates its customers, it’s been obvious for a long time now. All they want is more money for less and for us to never speak up or complain. Seems to me this is another situation where we can make a difference though. Either no one buys it and it never happens again, like NFTs and online passes, or people do buy it and we get a physical media situation where everyone realises they’ve helped to encourage something they hate. We’ll see which it is I guess, but I’m sure not buying it.Grant How things workSo another Halo game is a flawed product. An open goal that Microsoft has, as usual, missed. I mean how do you remake a 25-year-old game and still manage to have slowdown in it? It’s ridiculous, insulting even. I look forward to them pretending the problem doesn’t exist, then pretending it’s not as bad as people say (even though I’ve already seen the videos), and then taking far too long to fix it. Anyone that’s played Halo: The Master Chief Collection will know that’s just how things work at Xbox. Expert, exclusive gaming analysis Sign up to the GameCentral newsletter for a unique take on the week in gaming, alongside the latest reviews and more. Delivered to your inbox every Saturday morning. At this point I don’t really care what comes next. Probably just more remakes because all the rumours seem to say they don’t know what to do with the series. Not that you need any insider sources to realise that. My prediction is that there’s not going to be any quick end to Xbox. They’ll keep plugging away, never getting anything right, and it’ll just get more and more embarrassing. There was a time to bow out of gaming gracefully and they’ve missed it by a long shot.Spender Media envyInteresting proof that GTA 6 is not the unstoppable juggernaut that we think of. It’s bigger than most films, but the very biggest ones… at the end of the day it’s only a video game. I don’t think this matters but maybe it explains why developers, including Rockstar, always have a chip on their shoulder about being more ‘cinematic’, because they’re all frustrated movie directors and secretly think it’s a more important thing than games. I’d much rather play a good game than watch a good movie but to me they’re very different things. I don’t want my games to keep trying to turn into a movie and I certainly don’t want my movies to start acting like a video game. Unfortunately, you don’t always get what you want in life though.Mentalist Email your comments to: gamecentral@metro.co.uk Mood pieceJust seen the new trailer for the Resident Evil movie and while it doesn’t show much that wasn’t in the first one, I do think it’s going to be a good movie. It’s a completely different approach to other video game movies in that it’s just taking the tone and detail from the game and making it its own thing. The first Resident Evil film and the newer one both had similar settings and even some of the same characters as the games but they didn’t feel anything like them, they weren’t scary and they were just dumb without being funny-cheesy dumb. This movie is different because all the details are right on: the typewriter, finding the bullets for the empty shotgun, searching through drawers… it feels like Resident Evil without trying to copy the game. Because really, the game story makes no sense. Why does a city have this weird military-like division in an ordinary police station? What was Chris Redfield and Jill Valentine doing before the zombies arrived? Giving out parking tickets? The genius of a film like this is you can still say all that is going on someplace else, it’s just this story is focused on some ordinary guy just trying to get through it. I think it’s going to be great.Zeiss Non-acquired tasteI never finished Shenmue, either because I didn’t like it or because my Dreamcast bought from GAME broke and I dumped it. I played it for maybe five hours and couldn’t see the appeal of it. I’ve never thought back on it with any nostalgia. The only bit that was any good was the arcade games. Everything else was a chore. On another note, is Sony losing money because they don’t/aren’t releasing their films on Blu-ray? Surely there are still hardcore movie buffs that want to collect these things? Or would this be a third party thing?Bobwallett GC: It’s only games they’ve said they’re not releasing on disc. Sony Pictures is quite separate to the PlayStation division. Blame meI am a complete hypocrite because I have complained and moaned about the physical disc situation, but I am going to buy the Halo remake anyway. What is worse, apart from being download-only (even with the disc), is that you need a Microsoft account to get the game to work as well. This game is literally the worst of all situations with modern gaming, so I am part of the problem and why gaming is in the state it is in. The Halo franchise is still my favourite so I will pick up anything Halo. I know the franchise has been butchered but this looks like the last hurrah considering no other games are in production, so I’ll take the hit and get it.Simon GC: As a word of warning the game is really obnoxious about linking your Microsoft account to your PlayStation one, insisting that once it’s linked it cannot be unlinked. Non-stop complainingI think it’s already pretty obvious that Sony has told no one to talk about the physical games issue but how long exactly are they going to keep it up? If I know anything about gamers it’s that they are willing to keep a joke, or grudge, going for basically forever. They’re not going to stop filling the comments on social media ever. Why would they? It’s getting them lots of attention and Sony isn’t going to do anything to stop them. It’s just going to go on and on forever. Good on ‘em I say.Cranston Don't miss Gaming news! Add us as a Preferred Source As a loyal GameCentral reader, we want to make sure you never miss our articles when searching for gaming stories. We have all the latest video games news, reviews, previews, and interviews, with a vibrant community of highly engaged readers. Click the button below and tick Metro.co.uk to ensure you see stories from us first in Google Search. Add us as a Preferred Source GameCentral has been delivering unique games news and reviews for over a decade 50 or lessInteresting last line to your summing up of the Halo: Campaign Evolved review (PS5 version reviewed). Genuine question; any idea what the frame rate is like on Xbox Series X? Or is this a general thing that happens on PlayStation 5? A few vids on YouTube showing the PlayStation 5 dropping frames when the going gets a bit tough, or locking the frame rate at 60, but dumbing down the resolution to 1800 or 1440. I never seem to have this problem on Xbox Series X. Is that why the PS5 Pro exists, do you think? So that it can cope with the games that Series X is already coping perfectly well with. They couldn’t very well charge £500 for the Pro, otherwise they’d have had to drop the price of the ever so slightly underpowered, relative to Xbox Series X, PlayStation 5 to around £300. Might as well charge £700 and fleece their customers just a little bit more. Recent sales of Xbox Series X are up in the US (price rise coming soon, though). A bit of advice to any Xbox newbies (come on, they must have sold at least 50 consoles in the UK during June/July) and who haven’t played any Halo games before. Get The Master Chief Collection but wait until it turns up in the sale. Five cracking remastered Halo games in there, and Halo 4, for about a tenner.Paul C. GC: We haven’t played the Xbox version, but the problem is clearly the game, not the console. As you say, the power difference between the Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 is negligible; the only possible excuse is that the developer isn’t used to working on PlayStation hardware. Inbox also-ransMuch like X/Twitter, does anyone really call the new EA football game EA FC?Bobwallett GC: What do you call it? I see Ubisoft is all in favour of Sony’s all-digital future. Their excuse is that it means consoles don’t have to have a disc drive, therefore making them cheaper. Yep, that’s definitely worth £20 off a £1,000 PlayStation 6.Corsair Email your comments to: gamecentral@metro.co.uk The small printNew Inbox updates appear every weekday morning, with special Hot Topic Inboxes at the weekend. Readers’ letters are used on merit and may be edited for length and content. 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