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Ranking the teams in NFL Tour
After having played with or against every team in NFL Tour (full impressions of the game can be found here) I came away with a general feeling on how good each of them are. I didn't take note of the actual offensive and defensive rankings they had but it was apparent when playing as you could tell the difference between them. So based on my experience I've broken them down into four tiers. The first is the most dominant teams, generally well balanced ones that will present dynamic offense...
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NCAA Football 09 website has launched
Yes, its still December, but the website for EA Sports NCAA Football 09 has just gone live. Reachable through BCSPreview.com as well as easports.com the site currently features previews of the upcoming BCS games using the NCAA Football engine. Following the Bowl season the site will fully transition into NCAA Football 09 mode. It is worth noting that EA has never launched a site for a game this far in advance of its release. Interestingly it appears that the cover announcement may be c...
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MLB 08: The Show Miguel Tejada screenshots
SCEA has released a set of five new screens from MLB 08: The Show featuring shortstop Miguel Tejada who was recently acquired by the Houston Astros. You can check them out by heading over to the screenshot gallery. It'll be interesting to see if this is the start of a series of images spotlighting players on new teams for the coming season. It has been somewhat surprising that The Show has released this many screens along with the feature list so early and in doing so has stolen much of t...
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MLB 2K8 release date
As previously suggested would happen, MLB 2K8 has an initial release date of Tuesday March 4th. This is the same day that MLB 08 The Show is scheduled to release. However don't be surprised to see the game bumped up a week as the release date approaches. This is a tactic that has been used by 2K (as well as EA) in the past in order to get a jump on the competition. Where the companies are not allowed to do this with the NBA license they are free to do so with MLB....
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FIFA Street 3 cover athletes named
EA has announced that Ronaldinho, Peter Crouch, and Gennaro Gattuso will be on the cover of the upcoming FIFA Street 3. There are also 15 new screenshots showcasing these three players which can be seen in the gallery. The game is scheduled for release on February 19th on the 360, PS3, and DS. FIFA Street 3 brings these players, and others like them, to life as stylized action heroes in a hyper-real world that merges the game’s biggest stars with environments that pulsate to the musi...
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GameShow V1.1 Impressions
The EA GameShow December update was released yesterday. For full details of what is included in the 1.1 version of GameShow check out this posting. The download is found on the GameShow website and only took about one minute on my connection. It then took a couple more for the install but overall it was faster than the original process which took about 10 minutes from start to finish. This download is significantly smaller coming in at 78.5 MB compared to the first one which was 161.5 MB. ...
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FIFA 08 OTP patch fixes
Along with the Online Team Play update that allowed for up to 10 players on their own systems in a single online game, the FIFA 08 team was able to address some other issues at the same time. EA sent out the following detailing the specifics. Creating and delivering the OTP Update took a huge amount of work on the part of the dev team who really believed they could release the new feature for FIFA 08 even after the launch of the game. During all this hard work they found some time to opti...
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NFL Tour hands-on impressions
I was able to get a substantial amount of time in with NFL Tour at the PR event over the weekend. Tour is a game designed for those who have found others such as Madden to be too complicated or just a change of pace from the simulation experience. It strives to be simplistic and easy to play while providing a fun time. Tour has really turned out to be a fun game head-to-head but it isn't going to provide a deep or nearly as satisfying experience from playing the CPU. That isn't a knock on...
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