American Football

[jyoung]

It's real.

The same developer apparently put out a version of BCFX on the PC last year.

I welcome any competition to the EA games, but I doubt either it or Backbreaker will make waves, though of the two, Backbreaker is definitely the more likely to succeed.

I just cannot get over how little effort was put into EA's NCAA game this year. They basically patched everything they broke in 09, brought back create-a-team from the old PS2/XBOX games, threw in some bullshit "school pride" feature called Season Showdown then called it a day.

Madden is really going to make NCAA look like the archaic piece of shit it is with all the effort the new dev. team has put into Madden 10.

I guess EA just doesn't give a shit and figures all the hardcore college football fans will continue to buy NCAA regardless of how stale it gets.

[A Robot Bit Me]

That can not be real. But part of me believes.

Real and Rockband/GH-compatible!

[Othello Harrington]

LOL

[Six]

LOL

This. And it totally wins if, just like the real marching bands, the game rewards you for playing shitty, looking like ass and making an idiot of yourself.

[jyoung]

Some of the E3 Backbreaker information is starting to come out.

IGN has a preview with the first ever in-game footage.

Looks pretty dope.

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In other news, NCAA 10 is not even out yet and the first major glitch has already been discovered:

the on-disc rosters are completely fucked.

Sucks for the NCAA team, because the game was allegedly "done," and now they have to find a way to fix this huge mess in time for the July 14th ship date.

Maybe this will lead to a drop in sales and we can finally get a team that takes some pride in their product into the NCAA driver seat.

[Cheebs]

Madden 10, on the other hand, is looking massively improved.

It finally has a passing pocket.

Wot's this then? A proper game of football does not permit tossing the ball about the pitch. The field governor will flag you for a right spot of tallywacking, he will. EA are having to do better than that if I'm to consume my petrol to motor to the game centre and plunck down sixty quid.

Tallywacking in football. Really...




Oh! You mean American football. Right-o!


Americans and their tallywacking... You know, I recall seeing Mr MacGuire pinch a waggle at the baseball grounds that hefted at least 78 decastones skyward if it hefted a one. The centersman retrieved it and tallywagged on a spit to the sack. Quite remarkable, really, if a bit brutish.

Carry on!

[jyoung]

We finally got a pure gameplay video of Madden 10 in its alpha build.

Go to the actual Youtube page and watch it in HD if you can:



It's definitely far from perfect (running and blocking still look pretty iffy), but man, this is such a huge improvement from where the game was at last year.

Great job so far by the Madden team.

And I say that as someone who hasn't bought a single EA football game this generation.

Madden 10 may be the first.

[Six]

Physics still look floaty to me - every movement seems to cover more ground than it should, like the game is being played on ice.

And they need to 100% reanimate everything. It STILL looks like Madden on the Gamecube.

[Othello Harrington]

I hear one of the games is sponsored by chile's babyback ribs and grape drink, can you guess which one? seriously....

Also, backbreaker actually manages to look worse than 2K5 and lol@ncaa.

Edit: Why do football games outside of madden insist on players running staight up like Eric Dickerson? I mean it's 2009, we still can't incorporate proper body lean? Shit

[jyoung]

Now that the demo is up on the marketplace, I dare say NCAA 10 is the least a next-gen sports game has improved in a one-year development cycle.

It plays exactly like last year only with some stupid "gameplanning" gimmicks thrown in, which means it's still an arcadey piece of shit with horrible animations and physics.

The game is also completely broken out of the box for the second year in a row:

• Rosters are fucked up with many teams having no freshmen and lots of leftover graduated/transferred players
• The gameplay sliders flat-out do not work for the second year in a row!
• The DLC cheats that people can pay for are usable in the game's online modes (WTF?)

I really hope this game sells like shit and they get a new development team in there for NCAA 11 like they did this year for Madden 10.