Gaming Joe Montana Football 16

[Exe Gesis]

Joe Montana teases what could be a new football video game
Posted by Mike Florio on July 13, 2014, 11:11 PM EDT

With LeBron James announcing his decision to return to Cleveland, Friday would have been the perfect day for a bad-news dump. From Hall of Fame quarterback Joe Montana came on Friday some confusing news that ultimately could be very good news for the many football fans who have grown weary of the same-old Madden franchise.

Montana twice tweeted an image of himself in video-game form, wearing a uniform that doesn’t match the colors or logos of any current NFL team. The tweets each contained the hash tags “youvewaitedlongenough” and “joemontanafootball16.”

The tweets are being widely interpreted as a tease for a new generation of the old Joe Montana Football game from the Sega Genesis system. Because EA holds the exclusive license for NFL video games, it’s unlikely that a new version of the Joe Montana game would have NFL team names and logos and current player likenesses. Which means that, even if the game plays better than Madden, most fans won’t be inclined to buy it.

If the game is good enough, maybe the developer will be able to get the NFL’s attention. The league previously told PFT that the EA hammerlock lasts a couple more years. Perhaps a superior product will result in a partnership with the league that would make more money for everyone — and that would make fans looking for an upgrade to the Madden game very, very happy.

 

[Blacky]

I heard it's a mobile game

Hope not

 

[Chism]

As good as it sounds no actual NFL teams and players means i will always buy EA until it changes.

 

[Exe Gesis]

As good as it sounds no actual NFL teams and players means i will always buy EA until it changes.

You never know. Like Backbreaker on Xbox, people were able to crack it so you could upload a file with full 32 team rosters. I really dont care about license/names/likeness. I care more about a great gaming experience.....which of course also heavily means online play.....which is usually the thing that ruins any non-licensed games, and why we're all forced to keep buying Madden.

 

[Exe Gesis]

Rumored to be a real game releasing this year.

Tho it's not known for sure. Could be a tablet game, or app game. But the motion capture below impossible for app games. Rumored to be made by Microsoft Studios themselves, exclusive to Xbox One and Windows PC.

 

[Exe Gesis]

 

[Exe Gesis]

Operation Sports comment....

The Joe Montana Football Issue
Here is how it goes:

We are no longer talking Joe Montana Football until it is a confirmed title. And by "confirmed" I mean someone with working knowledge confirms that it is a real title and is being developed and released at some point.

No more hype trains, no more speculation. There is a reason no other sites are picking up on this story. We aren't anymore either, until there is confirmation.

I'm leaving this thread open for a short time just in case anyone has questions. Please direct questions at me and keep the focus on this decision. Also keep all comments respectful ("all due respect" does not a respectful comment make).

 

[Exe Gesis]

 

[Exe Gesis]

https://twitter.com/joemontana

 

[Exe Gesis]

 

[Blacky]

No wonder you have 60k posts when you can hold a conversation like this with yourself

 

[Exe Gesis]

No wonder you have 60k posts when you can hold a conversation like this with yourself

Beats conversing with you philistines

 

[Exe Gesis]

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/joe-montana-football-16-development-020022753.html

Joe Montana, the legendary NFL quarterback, is once again lending his name to a football video game. Called Joe Montana Football 16, the game is in development in Unreal Engine 4, announced Montana on Twitter today.

The tweet contains a screenshot bearing the Unreal Engine 4 logo. Along with the image, Montana said, "It just got Unreal," and mentioned the Unreal Engine Twitter account along with the hashtag #joemontanafootball16.

Montana, 58, has been teasing Joe Montana Football 16 since July 2014, when he tweeted artwork of himself in a generic football jersey with the hashtags #joemontanafootball16 and #youvewaitedlongenough. He followed that up in October with a video of himself recording motion capture, along with his in-game model mapped to the motion capture, tagged with #morethanarosterupdate and #montana16. The former hashtag refers to a common derisive refrain among gamers: the idea of annualized sports games as nothing more than "roster updates."

Today's screenshot makes Joe Montana Football 16 look like a game that lacks official licensing from the NFL and the NFL Players Association — in other words, it does not appear to contain real NFL teams or current NFL players. There's no word yet on developers, publishers or platforms for Montana 16, but being an unlicensed product would open up the game to being released on consoles, like 2010's Backbreaker.

Electronic Arts maintains licensing agreements with the NFL and NFLPA, exclusive contracts that prevent any other publishers from making console games with real NFL teams or players. An unlicensed game could feature Montana because the NFLPA deal only covers active NFL players; licensing for retired athletes is handled separately. In that manner, Montana appeared with nearly 240 former NFL athletes in 2007's All-Pro Football 2K8, the first (and to date, only) football game from 2K Sports after EA secured its original exclusive contracts in 2004 for the Madden NFL series.

Montana, who played for the San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs over a 16-year career from 1979 to 1994, previously starred in a series of football video games published by Sega in the early 1990s. The franchise began with 1990's Joe Montana Football on the Sega Master System, Genesis and MS-DOS, and concluded in 1994 with NFL '95.

 

[quotemokc]

Even if it doesn't have an NFL license, hopefully it will have the ability to create teams and players with downloadable files so they can just be added by users.

 

[Exe Gesis]

Even if it doesn't have an NFL license, hopefully it will have the ability to create teams and players with downloadable files so they can just be added by users.

Looks like it's similar to backbreaker. Hopefully it gets better studio support.

 

[SnakeMan86]

Even if it doesn't have an NFL license, hopefully it will have the ability to create teams and players with downloadable files so they can just be added by users.

If Don Bradman Cricket can do a decent enough job of it surely this mob can

 

[Dirty Bird]

Looks like it's similar to backbreaker. Hopefully it gets better studio support.

Change the title to
"Backbreaker, now with 1980s rosters"?

 

[aussiedude]

Mobile and PC only, also non licensed.

First for iSheep, then android. If they do well enough then they will do a PC version.

 

[quotemokc]

What an absolute joke.

 

[aussiedude]

What an absolute joke.

When it was first rumored more than a year ago, it was going to be a mobile game, i always expected it to be mobile only. And Joe Montana doesnt endorse good products so it was never going to be a madden killer.

 

[ERead]

Maddens have been getting better all the time - to the point where they look almost as realistic physics-wise as the Natural Motion engine.

If this was a true franchise sim, where you get to play games, but also manage stadiums, rosters, marketing, etc, that'd be fun. If it is Backbreaker (which was great) rehashed, it doesn't bring anything to the table without licensed teams etc.

 

[Exe Gesis]

Backbreaker was a heart-breaker.

 

[quotemokc]

Madden just has so many issues that 2k gave them reasons to improve.

Now/still with no competition they dont have to improve as much