Tecmo Bowl Throwback Impressions (PS3 and 360)

[CreatineKasey]

Quote: Originally Posted by DookieMowf

How does competitive mode work?

You can't re-play games in a season. You can control only 1 team. Your win percentage and point spread are displayed on a leaderboard along with the team you used. Also, there's leaderboards for single season passing, rushing, and receiving yards. I don't remember about defensive stats.

Basically, you play a season with 1 team and try to rack up some ridiculous point spreads and yardages to compete with others on a leaderboard. It looks pretty nice for a single player option.

What's really cool is once you personally edit player names on your system, those names show up on the leaderboards! So, I see Jerry Rice, Emmitt Smith, and Jim Kelly showing up on my screen, not the generic names! I really really like that.

[TheWatcher]

Quote: Originally Posted by CreatineKasey

Did you choose "competitive" mode for your season so it reports to the leaderboards? I'll keep an eye out for your season if you used that mode.

I selected the other mode. I'm not much into online play.

[centauris]

The Online interface is really... really terrible.. Why can't we choose to join either a 2D or 3D game....

I create a game with 2D settings.. and nobody joins..

I join a game with 2D checked in my settings.. I join a 3D game.

What were they thinking when they developed this online?

They didn't even include win/loss records.. what were they thinking?

[CreatineKasey]

Quote: Originally Posted by TheWatcher

I selected the other mode. I'm not much into online play.

Gotcha. Just so you know you don't actually play people online in that mode, you just post your "high scores". It's basically an old arcade-style leaderboard.

[Brandwin]

They did drop the ball on a few things that could have been added. Maybe it was on purpose so they can release another version?

[TheWatcher]

Quote: Originally Posted by CreatineKasey

Gotcha. Just so you know you don't actually play people online in that mode, you just post your "high scores". It's basically an old arcade-style leaderboard.

I know. It's just that once I download a game I don't go back online except for a patch or a roster update.

[TheWatcher]

Quote: Originally Posted by DookieMowf

They did drop the ball on a few things that could have been added. Maybe it was on purpose so they can release another version?

They only had 150 MB's to work with, so that's going to keep a lot of things out.

I'd like to get in touch with them. It would be great to send them some suggestions for a future game. I've got a ton.

[centauris]

Either my internet is ****ed or the game is.. keep getting disconnected