Darkheath
June 8th, 2007, 01:38 PM
I wrote this as a response in the "weather" thread and determined that it was too off-topic, so I started this one.
It's clear there is ALOT of creativity in this game, I mean hell it's a fantasy football game built from the ground up! Blitz had a hell of a shot @ that with cool teams and gimmicks, but that game sucked HARD.
Heh.. funny you should mention that. I just pulled that game out again last night to give it another try. I really like the whole artistic direction that game took. I thought the player models even looked better than the Madden guys. It had an overall gritty feel to the whole game.
I just invented another team last night and the uniforms and customization options are pretty good. So you make this tight-looking team, you pick your stadium (only 3 choices though), pick your rookie, pick your coaches, pick you veteran leader and you get this great-looking team down on the field... and then the game starts. Oiy...
Yes... I knew the game was not supposed to be a true representation of football... but geez...
You have about 24 plays to pick from (INCLUDING the kicking plays!) and the players move with such superhuman speed you can't get a sense of what is going on. I couldn't even get through the TUTORIAL last night! It was asking me to sack the QB using a "dirty hit".. OK fine... but the play was OVER in 3 seconds! So that means he dropped and passed in 1.5-2 seconds... so I was supposed to get through the OL and the 2 backs who dropped back in protection in that kind of time?
The game play is a waste of good graphics... the whole history of the league they wrote up and the whole story-line mode which I'll probably never see through to the end. I had hopes for that game... those hopes are now in APF 2k8.
It's clear there is ALOT of creativity in this game, I mean hell it's a fantasy football game built from the ground up! Blitz had a hell of a shot @ that with cool teams and gimmicks, but that game sucked HARD.
Heh.. funny you should mention that. I just pulled that game out again last night to give it another try. I really like the whole artistic direction that game took. I thought the player models even looked better than the Madden guys. It had an overall gritty feel to the whole game.
I just invented another team last night and the uniforms and customization options are pretty good. So you make this tight-looking team, you pick your stadium (only 3 choices though), pick your rookie, pick your coaches, pick you veteran leader and you get this great-looking team down on the field... and then the game starts. Oiy...
Yes... I knew the game was not supposed to be a true representation of football... but geez...
You have about 24 plays to pick from (INCLUDING the kicking plays!) and the players move with such superhuman speed you can't get a sense of what is going on. I couldn't even get through the TUTORIAL last night! It was asking me to sack the QB using a "dirty hit".. OK fine... but the play was OVER in 3 seconds! So that means he dropped and passed in 1.5-2 seconds... so I was supposed to get through the OL and the 2 backs who dropped back in protection in that kind of time?
The game play is a waste of good graphics... the whole history of the league they wrote up and the whole story-line mode which I'll probably never see through to the end. I had hopes for that game... those hopes are now in APF 2k8.