FIFA 23 Career Mode: How do playable highlights work?

A deep dive FIFA 23 Career Mode trailer has just been released by EA that contains information on a brand new feature – ‘playable highlights’. Here’s everything you need to know regarding it.

Career Mode playthroughs have always been a unique part of FIFA, you can build essentially your team of global superstars and watch them grow. Players like Kylian Mbappe, Heung-Min Son and Kai Havertz can all be obtained for your side and be turned into absolute world beaters – if they aren’t nearly there already.

It’s also popular as it requires the right mix of being able to get the best results and the desire to progress as fast as possible towards the big matches like finals, six-pointers, or promotion play-offs. That is why EA introduced Interactive Simulation to Manager Career two years ago, but even with that addition, they still wanted to add more to the Career Mode progression toolkit.

The best managers in world football have a keen attention to detail – which is why they are so successful. Pep Guardiola, Jurgen Klopp, Antonio Conte and many more are masters at this, which is why in FIFA 23, EA are revamping career mode so you can replicate these tactical icons.

They’re looking to give you more control over how much attention, time, and focus you invest ineach part of the season, one match at a time. This is why they are introducing a new gameplay format that is specific to Career Mode called Playable Highlights.

In Playable Highlights, you take control of key moments in matches in an attempt to define their outcomes, specifically handling close calls that impact the scoresheet while leaving the rest of the match to be simulated by the match engine.

So how does it work? Here we have everything you need to know regarding