Glen’s All Pro Football Impressions (PS3)
After a few short games, I do have to say that I’m quite impressed with the gameplay.
- The tackling animations are light years ahead of what NCAA is showing this year. It’s amazing to watch a runner get stood up by a linebacker and then get hammered by the next guy joining the fray. It’s just a much more realistic representation of what actual tackles look like. I’m very impressed by that.
- It’s nice to hear the old play by play guys again as well. To be honest though, I couldn’t tell you a single thing that they said. They just kind of blended into the background in my time with the game.
- I did run into a big bug though. :05 left in the first half and I throw a Hail Mary pass that gets picked off. One of my receivers gets called for clipping. Assuming that the clipping penalty happened after the pick, they assess the penalty correctly from the spot of the interception and then proceed to give me the ball with no time left, in which I kick a Field Goal with :00 on the clock. Annoying, but I’m not sure how often something like that could happen again.
I do have to say that it’s quite a good football game. Worth $60? No. Worth $30? Yep. I’ll pick it up when it hits that price point. I just hope that next years version has more gameplay modes as well. Of course if EA has their way, there won’t be another version next year.
July 28th, 2007 at 9:35 am
I’d be willing to not buy Madden this year so that 2k sports can have another go, but there are so many people who buy it due to the hype that I don’t think enough of us hard core football players would make a dent in sales by skipping this year’s Madden.