Facebreaker is EA's Most Important Title This Year

[dbrandon]

Oops, you said it was a Big Title, sorry

[zzyzx]

I don't disagree with All-Play as part of EA's strategic plan, per se. But the author hits the flaw on the head. EA is catering to a largely imaginary market, perhaps dreamed up by their marketing division.

Most of the people that stopped playing sports video games stopped playing video games period. They aren't coming back. Others stopped playing sports games because it seemed like too much work. Fine, so develop an optional, easy control scheme that allows them to participate. But the core content has to be there for it to work at all. If it's quality, it may succeed in drawing "lapsed gamers" back in. If it's as weak as NCAA Football All Play (just my opinion, but I have seen it first-hand), no, it won't matter how friendly Sparty looks on the cover.

[JayBee74]

The controls are simple in this game, but don't rule out it's playability. I'll have to put in more time before I make a decision.

[BlueDevilsFan]

Great read Chase. After playing the crap out of the demo for the past 2 days I have to agree with you that i think they got this one right. it comes off as a simple masher but the more we played the more strategies we figured out. reminds me of old school arcade gaming fun.

hope more people give it a chance. cant wait to take this game online when it hits

[koebner]

After playing the demo,I sure don't think this is a 60 dollar title by any stretch. A decent rental,or wait for the inevitable bargain bin clear-out.