EA Sports activities has lastly teased its long-awaited new school soccer online game — “EA Sports activities School Soccer 25” — promising that the sport will launch this summer season with a full reveal dropping in Could. Will probably be the corporate’s first school soccer online game in 11 years, and the trailer figures to speed up anticipation for the sport’s rebirth.

Relaunching the title has required EA to navigate quite a few hurdles, resulting in fears from some followers that its anticipated launch date might be postponed. Specifically, EA has been navigating a bunch licensing course of that can permit actual gamers to be represented within the recreation. Thursday’s trailer addressed the skeptics.

“Yeah, we have seen the posts, the predictions, the doubts,” stated the trailer’s narrator. “We get it. It has been a minute.”

EA Sports activities first introduced two years in the past that the sport can be returning as up to date NCAA tips cleared the way in which for gamers to be compensated for using their likenesses within the recreation. The brand new recreation is anticipated to characteristic most of the components that beforehand made the sequence successful amongst school soccer followers, together with Dynasty and Street to Glory recreation modes.

Under are some early high-resolution photographs of the sport, offered by EA Sports activities: 

The sequence initially went on pause after the 2013 launch of “NCAA Soccer 14” amid a lawsuit filed towards the NCAA and the Collegiate Licensing Firm by former UCLA basketball participant Ed O’Bannon. EA Sports activities was required to pay class-action compensation to earlier athletes who weren’t compensated for being within the recreation.