Avatar Football Hits Xbox 360 Indie Marketplace - Gameplay Video Included

[Steve_OS]

Check out more Avatar Football screenshots, right here.

Coinciding with the start of the NFL playoffs, veteran Xbox 360 Indie developer, Barkers Crest Studio, just released Avatar Football onto the Xbox Live Marketplace.

For 240 Microsoft Points ($3), gamers get:

• 2D gameplay inspired by Tecmo Super Bowl
• Play as Xbox Avatars or as realistic football player models
• 3 vs. 3 online multiplayer
• Fully editable players, teams and playbooks
• Create-a-play editor
• Share edited rosters over Xbox Live
• Offline single season mode
• 2 vs. 2 local multiplayer

As of this post, an error on Microsoft's end is preventing the free trial version from appearing on the marketplace. Barkers Crest Studio has gotten in touch with Microsoft and is currently doing everything than can to get a downloadable trial version working.

UPDATE: Check out the Avatar Football video, captured last night from the 4th quarter, it was a crazy finish!

[Bull_Dozer]

As someone who loves Tecmo, this looks pretty cool. Anyone tried this yet?

[KingNick865]

From what I've played of it, it seems to be a lot like Tecmo Bowl. The action is a little slower though, but for $3, and with all the customization you get with it, it isn't a bad deal.

Still need more actual gameplay experience though to get a better feel of things.

[jyoung]

I was playing a 3 vs. 3 online game earlier today with Pappy Knuckles and it ran great even with 6 people in the game. The lag was minimal and did not interfere with the gameplay at all. I'm very impressed with the online performance.

For playbooks, there's 110 default offensive plays and 58 default defensive plays in the game. You can put them all into a single custom playbook if you like.

Default offensive formations:

• Pro Set
• I Formation
• Weak I Formation
• Single Back
• Shotgun
• Trips
• Empty
• Spread
• Wishbone
• Goalline

Default defensive formations:

• 4-3
• 3-4
• Nickel
• Dime
• 6-1
• Goalline
• Prevent

You can also create your own formations and your own plays.

[Steve_OS]

Where can we download it jyoung?

[jyoung]

It looks like the custom playbook/roster sharing is a little weird in how it's setup.

The person sharing and the person receiving the custom content both have to be online at the same time.

Then the sharer invites the downloader into a room and its syncs up the custom content.

I am in the roster room right now if anyone wants to download a simple NFL roster. I added all the correct conference names, division names and team names. I also tweaked the jerseys a little bit. No changes yet to the players.

[jyoung]

The free trial version is now up for download if anyone was waiting to try the game before buying it:

http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/Pr...5-d80258550c7d

Great games tonight! I had one game with Pappy that was went to overtime on a last second hail mary.

Then in the battle of New York, the last play of the game was a goal line fumble during a failed two point conversion that would have won the game for the Giants.

[Wiggy]

Definitely a fun time with this game. Great features for an indie title, and it easily could stand confidently on XBLA as a solid product.

That goal-line fumble is going to haunt me forever =)