Calling it "the slickest, most polished and by far the most popular football game around", and "football games’ equivalent of the Premier League", "The Guardian" praised the game’s FIFA Ultimate Team, which "encourages you to purchase Panini-sticker-like player packs to build up a dream team", adding the series has "an excellent Journey mode that lets you control an aspiring pro and build him up to an international superstar, and a Career mode that lets you control your favourite team on and off the field." One of the best-selling video game franchises, by 2021, the "FIFA" series had sold over 325 million copies.