Archive for the ‘Football’ Category
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NCAA Football 10 Demo Impressions
Having played the full game at E3, which was probably built off a different and slightly more recent build, it makes it difficult to evaluate the demo. There are some things that seemed better at E3, yet there are also some things that seem better in the demo. So I'm not sure exactly how valid some of my impressions can be as they relate to the final build. Because of that I won't go into much detail on those things. Continue on to read some general thoughts on the game/demo and check out...
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NCAA Football 10 Demo Now Available
The demo for NCAA Football 10 is now out on the XBL Marketplace and will go up with the PSN update this afternoon. Featured is a National Championship rematch of the Florida Gators against the Oklahoma Sooners with two minute quarters. The difficulty level is adjustable which is probably a factor in its large size of 1.57 GB. Leave your thoughts and impressions of the demo in the comments! I'll get some videos to go up this evening and maybe some observations based on what may be differen...
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NCAA Football 10 Issues Being Addressed
While at E3 I was satisfied after my time with NCAA Football 10. You can read back through my impressions if you haven't already, but basically the game has a similar feel but with numerous additions and improvements from last year that become more evident the more it is played. Unfortunately after I got back all that was soon overshadowed by news of the rosters being in terrible shape and the DLC "boosts" for dynasty that would also affect Online Franchise. First on the topic of the rost...
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Madden 10 Franchise Q&A
Last week we got a Q&A about the Online Franchise mode in Madden 10. This week brings a general Franchise mode Q&A that goes into more of the basics of what has been worked on. You can read through the entire blog posting here. As I’ve mentioned before my goal was to clean up the logic and get this mode back to where it needed to be. I’ll repeat my favorite analogy for those of you who haven’t heard it before: If you found out you had termites in your house, wou...
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Gamestop Preorders Get Extended Madden 10 Demo
Gamestop has just updated their Madden 10 product pages to include information on an exclusive demo being offered to those who preorder the game. Basically it sounds as though people who don't preorder will still be getting a demo, but it will offer abbreviated quarters or be something similar to the "Madden Moment" that made up the demo last year. And actually that is what will happen as the public demo will be Cowboys vs Giants with two minute quarters. Reserve Madden NFL 10 and receive t...
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NCAA Football 10 Demo This Week
A handful of postings on Twitter confirm that the NCAA Football 10 demo is expected to be out later this week. In all likelihood that means on Thursday we'll be getting the demo on the 360 in the early AM and on the PS3 in the afternoon. I suspect that this demo will do little to change the negativity surrounding the game right now. Most of the improvements are subtle and overall the game feels an awful lot like 09. In a demo with abbreviated quarters those improvements will be less likel...
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Madden 10 Player Ratings
After responding to a ton of Madden NFL 10 player ratings requests in the previous posting I took on the task of putting them all together in a document. Included are the full rosters, overall ratings, and at many positions the speed and acceleration ratings. You can download the spreadsheet here. I am really looking forward to seeing how the spread out ratings affect the game. It makes the strengths and weaknesses of each team apparent and depth becomes more important. Users will have to...
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NCAA Football 10 Charging for Dynasty Boosts
Brian Ekberg of Gamespot has received a beta copy of NCAA Football 10 and is posting content as well as answering questions about the game. You can visit here and add questions of your own. Alarmingly he had this to say earlier today which is gone into more detail in this posting: I haven't dipped that far into dynasty mode yet but it looks very simliar to previous years. That said, there is one significant change: You can add an additional pipeline state by paying for it. With real money (...
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