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- Operation Sports has posted another producer blog for NCAA Basketball 09. This one focuses on the feedback that was received at the community event and changes that have taken place in direct response to it.
- FIFA 09 was released this last week to overwhelming praise. While it is difficult for me to imagine finding long-term appeal in a soccer game I would’ve said the same about a hockey game before playing NHL 09. Look for some basic impressions and a write-up on the 10 vs 10 Online Team Play in the near future.
- I picked up a copy of Blitz the League II and will post up some videos and general impressions soon. While I didn’t play the first one I know there were people out there who really enjoyed it. I was a little turned off by the excessive nature of the original but I don’t feel that same way right now. I’ve only gotten in about just over an hour so far but I’ve already come across some cool things. I generally like arcade style games when they have real elements of strategy to them without just being frustrating. The BIGS is a great example of that. My feeling right now is that Blitz may fall into that category.
- Continue sending in your NBA 2K9 and NBA Live 09 highlights for consideration. I’ve received a bunch for each game already. The deadline for submissions comes at the end of Wednesday. Make sure to get yours in via the contact form along with your valid email address and your PSN or gamertag.
October 18, 2008 at 9:34 am
i love the biltz game dirty football is the best
October 18, 2008 at 9:50 am
Is demo out yet?
October 18, 2008 at 10:14 am
For Blitz? Unfortunately I don’t believe they are going to release a demo.
October 18, 2008 at 10:30 am
I haven’t bought Blitz, but I’m thinking about it, especially after hearing is similar to The Bigs type of strategy. It may be tough to tell now, but does this game have a decent size online community? I hate to be waiting around for 10 minutes to find a match.
October 18, 2008 at 10:35 am
I’ll try today, I haven’t attempted to play online yet so I’ll let you know how much success I have.
October 18, 2008 at 10:51 am
I got the game from gamefly, it’s a fun game but gets old very quick.
October 18, 2008 at 12:43 pm
If im not mistaken Isn’t Frank Caliendo the commentator in this game and I heard he do play calling with his Madden voice
October 18, 2008 at 1:09 pm
[quote comment="42657"]If im not mistaken Isn’t Frank Caliendo the commentator in this game and I heard he do play calling with his Madden voice[/quote]
Yep. Within the story mode anyway, I haven’t noticed him in the quick games.
I’ve been playing some in the story mode and its pretty fun so far. Padre is dominating as a WR/Safety. The cut scenes between games are well done.
October 18, 2008 at 2:58 pm
I just wanted to clear up the DLC issue. We would like to release it but it is an unfinished product and it would take away from our ability to highly develop next year’s Madden. Since we were going to release it for free and the checks for all of the Madden’s you purchased have cleared there was no need to immediately make DLC available. We are working diligently around the clock to bring out the best of Madden for next year. As I have previously stated I took a pay cut from 7 million to 6.9 million a year to ensure a well developed product. Next years Madden will have chain gangs, ref, active sideline and everything else you could imagine. How do I know this is possible? Because the Madden 09 we have here has all of those things without any glitches. But we couldn’t give you this one because it’s……….ah…um…beta.
Peter Moore
President of EA Sports
October 18, 2008 at 3:07 pm
I would like a look at blitz. I can’t find any reviews online, but that may change.
October 18, 2008 at 8:28 pm
So online play wise, I didn’t have trouble finding opponents through the quickmatch. The leaderboard is full of people who’ve only played a handful (or just one) games so I’m not sure if it’ll last or if there will be trouble finding online games in the weeks ahead.
October 18, 2008 at 10:17 pm
Thanks Pasta.
October 19, 2008 at 6:59 am
PASTA ROKS WOO PASTA SERIOYS CUESTION HOW LONG ARE U PLANNING OON KEEPING THIS S ITE GOIN
October 19, 2008 at 10:58 am
FIFA is incredible.
October 19, 2008 at 11:31 am
I hope EA addressed uniform accuracy in NCAA Basketball 09. It is great that they are fixing many of the gameplay issues.
Pasta,
Any word on a demo release for NCAA Basketball?
October 20, 2008 at 12:23 pm
One thing I wish we heard about NCAA Basketball is features. I know gameplay is very important, especially after last year, but it would be nice to know if they are planning to include every D-1 team (missed out on a little over a dozen last year). I don’t know why that bugged me so much, but it just did.
Got FIFA today finally, looking forward to playing it. For some reason, while FIFA 08 was challenging – I had fun with it and I could win some games. Euro 08 was super hard for me, especially online. So I hope FIFA 09 falls somewhere in between. And Pasta, Soccer games are totally fun. I don’t follow soccer or hockey as closely as the three other sports but as far as my most played video game sports those two are easily up there near the top (with basketball).