Game Informer have reported that FIFA 17 is the beginning of EA Sports’ transition to the Frostbite engine. Over the next few years all the EA Sports titles will be transitioning from the Ignite engine, with Madden NFL, NHL and NBA Live set to receive the same treatment as FIFA 17 at a later date.
FIFA 17 won’t be the first sports game to use the Frostbite engine, Rory McIlroy PGA Tour was built on this engine, though that game has not been released on PC.
FIFA fans will know the transition from FIFA 13’s Impact engine to FIFA 14’s Ignite engine was a bit of a step backwards, at least for the first year. While FIFA 14 did look better due to the higher resolution of the next generation consoles, the gameplay was worse than the previous game due to the abuse of pace and headers.
We hope EA doesn’t repeat the same mistake as they did back in 2013, when they released FIFA 14 with the new Ignite engine on the next generation consoles but somehow ignored PC altogether. The PC port of FIFA in 2013 was basically the same game as FIFA 13 but with updated squads and kits. We imagine the PC port of FIFA 17 will be using the Frostbite engine as it’s not the first Frostbite engine game to come out on PC. Back in 2013, the first game to use the Ignite engine was FIFA 14, and for the first year the Ignite engine was not compatible with PCs.
