Archive for the ‘Football’ Category
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Madden NFL 12: Players Rated 99 Overall
EA Sports is beginning to release some player ratings for Madden NFL 12 and is expected to stretch the process out over the next month. That has started by identifying the 99 overall rated players. Patriots QB Tom Brady, Chargers TE Antonio Gates, Steelers SS Troy Polamalu, and Jets CB Darrelle Revis are the four that will begin the 2011-2012 season with the coveted 99. Missing from the group is Peyton Manning who finally lost his 99 rating in a roster update last season and doesn't get i...
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NCAA Football 12 Dynasty Problems Surface
With NCAA Football 12 having now been out for nearly a week reports are starting to come in on issues discovered within Dynasty mode. Outside of the exception of the absurd wait time for advancing Online Dynasty each 'week' and some problems progressing when utilizing Teambuilder squads the mode looked to be relatively clean on the surface with good sim stats and the Custom Conferences and Coaching Carousel working properly. (more…)...
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NCAA Football 12: Hits and Misses
With NCAA Football 12 EA Sports made some prominent feature additions that were directed primarily at the more hardcore fans of the series while promising some important improvements to gameplay. Following up on Sunday's full impressions posting what did NCAA Football 12 deliver on and where did it go wrong? Find out in this 'Hits and Misses' review. (more…)...
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Pastapadre Teambuilder Design Winner
Once again thanks to everyone who took the time to work on a submission for the NCAA Football 12 official Pastapadre Teambuilder design contest. With over 4K votes cast it was Entry #2 as the resounding winner picking up 35% of the vote. The next highest came in at 14% and the remaining all fell in the 2-12% range. If you'd like to download the team to use yourself it can be found under the gamertag SteelByDesign. The designer of the winning entry has chosen to join the Official Pastap...
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New Features in NCAA Football 12 Lack Necessary Follow-Through
While I work up the 'Hits and Misses' review for NCAA Football 12 to be posted tomorrow one thing over the last week has become apparent: well-intentioned and heavily hyped features are absent the necessary foresight or simply haven't been implemented completely. (more…)...
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NCAA Football 12 Online Play Impressions
With an online integrated feature as deep as Online Dynasty in NCAA Football, the series' suite online play options automatically starts at a floor higher than any other sports title to date. With the typical ranked games, unranked with numerous options, Teambuilder, and more there is no shortage of features. With NCAA Football 12 the Online Dynasty has gotten even better and general online play so far has been stable which is encouraging for the days ahead. (more…)...
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NCAA Football 12 Named Rosters Now Available for Xbox 360
Those with the Xbox 360 version of NCAA Football 12 can now share in the named roster fun! In order to snag the rosters go to Team Management – Roster Share – Download Roster – Download Roster and then search the gamertag pastapadre. Make sure to save the file after downloading and manually load it if the names are not immediately reflected. I can verify that these rosters do transfer over for use in online play and it contains all the college coaches. What I can't de...
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NCAA Football 12 Named Rosters Available Now for PS3
Those with a PS3 and a copy of NCAA Football 12 will now be able to download a fully named roster file! In order to snag the rosters go to Team Management - Roster Share - Download Roster - Download Roster and then search the name GamingTailgate. Credit for the roster naming goes to BigWY over at The Gaming Tailgate. Make sure to save the file and manually load it up to see the changes take effect and to start a new franchise. No changes were made to the file besides assigning na...
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