EA and other game makers need to decide which business model they are going to use.
User Rating: 6.5 | NCAA Football 10 X360
This game like to many others expects you to pay 60 dollars for an update to the last game. Then on top of that wants you to have live services to play some of the content. I understand that much of the multiple player content needs a service to play on but why the single player content. The game seems to have a couple issues so far. It has crashed on me while loading some screens. I have not had this issue on other games so I am assuming that it is from this game. I have had issues with bugs in NCAA in the past and would not be suprised to find some in this version. Another issue that I have found while playing is the aggressive, normal, and conservative approaches. I do not see how this helps other than making sure you get penalized in the red zone right before you should have scored. Since you can control the aspects of the people you are playing why would you ask for extra penalties that you can not control?
The controls still feel mostly right but sometimes act a little off. One time I try to overthrow a ball with the stick and it barely moves over and the next time it will be overthrown by a mile. I would like to see more control in how you throw the ball. The ability to sprint the wrong direction is still annoying but seems to not happen as much. These kinds of problems make me wonder if they perform quality control work with people that just started playing or with the same crew every year. They need some new perspective.
The last comment is they need to decide if they are pricing the game on an updated version where a consumer needs to update everything on-line for a new season or as a new game that is a complete stand alone. I am not paying for a stand alone product that I have to pay for other features that I should already have.
