Career mode is a video game term referring to the mode of gameplay that involves taking control of a single character and guiding the character through a structured career. The mode is normally associated with

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s, where it is referred to by various names such as "superstar mode", "My Player mode", and "Road to the Show mode", in which a player controls the career of a single

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. Normal features of the mode include tracking the character's statistics and customizing the character's appearance and attributes. Additional options may also be available, such as participating in various activities outside of the main gameplay, as in ''

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'' which allows players to spend virtual currency to make special appearances at charity functions to improve team chemistry. Compared to other modes of typical sports or racing video games, the pacing in the early moments of career mode tends to be conservative and in favor of experience point/grinding.

Features

Players in the mode are normally rated, sometimes with a scale from 0 to 99 (with 99 being the highest score) in both the overall category and in various categories that correspond to a specific position (e.g., a

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in American football, a

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in baseball, a point guard in basketball). Career mode generally rewards players for positive plays (such as scoring a

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