AFL 2007 talk

[Alberton_Magpie]

Its a shame they didnt have 1 year left to make an 08 version because they finally got the gameplay right its just the managment and extras stuff they need to do now

 

[geelong16]

I am VERY pleased with the new Brownlow voting. Instead of forwards winning the medal like in 2006, Steven King the Geelong ruckman won it on my first season. Plus the best & fairest awards have different a different voting sytem also. What's up with the umpiring? I barley touch the ball and it's a free against? Still a much better version than last years!

king won the brownlow, thats a bug right there ahah

 

[BlackMamba]

Bad Points:
Jay Schulz doesn't have his name read out which is weird, do the guys at IR Gurus have something against him, as last year he went by the name of Smith.

OK, I figured this one out.

I played as Richmond, and changed a couple of guys surnames to different spellings of 'Schulz' to see if any worked....and whatta ya know....SCHULTZ (with a 't') gets the correct commentary from Dennis.

So all that has happened is the audio guys, or the programmers, have incorrectly matched up the 'Schulz' commentary to the wrong spelling.
If you wanna change it, add a 't' into his surname....
I know it's not correct, but you'll get the better commentary for it....

 

[Hairy Cat Mooney]

I have noticed a few problems in the gameplay so far:

1. I was playing with my brother and when ever I had a set shot at goal he would come bump my player off line. Sometimes I would get a 50m penalty but most of the time no free was awarded. I would miss the easy goal, even if I did shoot on target.

2. In general play when you take a mark, if the opposition stands right next to you the ball will go to them when you kick, as if they were smothering the kick. The only way to get around this is to play on, and most likely get tackled by that player.

Is anyone else noticing these problems?

Otherwise a great game!

 

[Shinboner009]

Just got the game today, and have spent the last 6 hours playing it. So far, my feelings vary a lot. Let me explain.

Detail - Much more detail than I expected. Although some of the hairstyles are glitched, they're only noticable on closer inspection. The stadiums look better than ever, and so do the guernseys. Speaking of guernseys, the number of them is amazing. I'm also loving the straps & tape certain players have, like Nathan Thompson having a strapped knee (having done his ACL earlier this year). Finally, I love the dirt & grass than accumilates on players in a rainy match. Definatly a 10/10 on the detail.

Features - Almost everything is there. All of the modes seem top-notch. The only thing I'd liked to have seen was the return of the mini games, which were great fun aswell as good practice. The stats in the game are spot on. Pretty much every major stat is in the game, and can be checked during or after games, aswell as in between games in a season. Although, I didn't see a disposals or posessions stat in the game stats screen, I could only find disposals in between games. Nonetheless, the stats are amazing.

Gameplay - Eh, not the highlight of the game, which ironically is what games are all about, gameplay. I'm really disliking this congested theme you have going FH. I understand what you guys were trying to do with it, but it just doesn't work. In real footy, you'd be lucky to see 5-10 smothers in a game. In the 6 hours of playing AFL Premiership 2007, I've seen about 200 smothers. Along with the smothers comes an absolute shitload of tackling. As soon as you grab the ball from a hitout, you get tackled. If you pass the ball off, the reciever will get tackled. The only solution is to either pray your man is at least 10m away from an opposition player, or rapidly tap O or X to dispose of the ball into open space. This isn't anything like real footy. You don't even have time to look for someone to kick to, you're too busy trying to shake off tackles. The center square of the field looks more like a rugby field most of the time. Perhaps IR Gurus should try their hand at the next NRL game?

Other than the congested play, there are a few other gameplay gripes. Is it just me, or are your players terrible at marking? Even on Easy mode, the opposition will mark each and every ball that comes to them, while my own players will have the ball slip through their fingers, no matter how perfectly I time a mark. About 75% of attempted marks fail, even if they're non contested. Infact, I've never once marked the ball from a kickout. I spot a lone player, kick towards him, and the ball just flys past him...

The handballs also have a lot of issues. Sometimes I'll go to handball to a player right next to me. I'll aim the sticks at him, yet the ball will shoot 10m in another direction, only to have an opposition player pick it up. It's quite annoying.

And of course, the kicking. There's basically no way to get a clean kicking session going in a game. Players barely lead, you're ALWAYS kicking to a contest. About 99% of my total kicks have been to a contest...

When you combine all these issues, you come up with one and only one gameplay tactic if you wish to win: Bomb it long everytime, and hope for a mark. Don't bother using the running game, as you'll get tackled like a lion chasing a zebra. Don't bother setting your team tactics to attacking, as your players won't have enough room to get the run going anyway. Al you have to do is have your players playing defensively, kick to contests, and you'll probably win.

Well, that's what I have to say thus far. Although you may think I'm extremly dissapointed with the game from reading the above, I'm not. I will be keeping the game, dispite having traded in the past two AFL games. Although the gameplay doesn't change much from 06 (I absolutly hate the goal bar, it's terrible, why can't we just have the old snap button back? It takes you like 5+ seconds to actually line up for a goal, where-as in real life you can do the same in about 2 seconds. Guess what it leads to? TACKLE TACKLE TACKLE!), I'm willing to give the game a shot. I have enjoyed playing it today, despite so many issues. I think the fact that it's the only AFL game on the market that is making me keep the game. I havn't had the proper AFL game experience in over 3 years, I'll just take whatever is thrown at me now.

So, in conclusion, it's an improvement for the series in some aspects, but it's also a step back in many others. I think if the congested idea was taken out, this would almost be THE perfect AFL game. I'd rate it about a 7/10.

 

[HBK619]

Gameplay - Eh, not the highlight of the game, which ironically is what games are all about, gameplay. I'm really disliking this congested theme you have going FH. I understand what you guys were trying to do with it, but it just doesn't work. In real footy, you'd be lucky to see 5-10 smothers in a game. In the 6 hours of playing AFL Premiership 2007, I've seen about 200 smothers. Along with the smothers comes an absolute shitload of tackling. As soon as you grab the ball from a hitout, you get tackled. If you pass the ball off, the reciever will get tackled. The only solution is to either pray your man is at least 10m away from an opposition player, or rapidly tap O or X to dispose of the ball into open space. This isn't anything like real footy. You don't even have time to look for someone to kick to, you're too busy trying to shake off tackles. The center square of the field looks more like a rugby field most of the time. Perhaps IR Gurus should try their hand at the next NRL game?

Ok either you have never watched a footy game or you are ignorent, watch the centre bounces at any match and you will see footballers get the ball then instantly look for a target and get the quick kick or handball away, when do players run out of the midfield and deliver a perfect kick without any pressure?

If you have trouble then use the Triangle button to spin or evade tackles, it can get you in alot more free space.

Also to FH, for the next game can the training ground be a selectable ground in Single Match mode, it's a cool ground, there is no crowd noise just the players, and also I LOLed so much when I saw the attendance for one of my training matches and it was 86.

 

[Shinboner009]

I know there is a lot of pressure & congestion in the centre bounce, but not nearly as much as in this game. As I said, you cannot even think of what to do before you get tackled. You have to already know what to do before the ball is bounced. You have to either handball or kick it somewhere, there's no point in even moving your player. This doesn't happen in real footy. Players will get their hands on the ball and look around for an option of play, be it running out to the wings and clearing the ball, handpassing it off to a nearby player, or bombing it straight down into the half forward line. Speaking of which, you can't bomb the ball out in a centre bounce in this game either. You don't have enough time to charge up the power bar...

 

[quiksilva]

Ha Fiery Hawk lol! i just downloaded the game as im yet to play it because i have to go out for dinner. But when i come back at about 9 i will be playing it for hours

Poor ****

 

[Goedy]

When they bring an AFL game out on the 360 or ps3 it will be awsome

 

[quiksilva]

Poor form to see it on torrent sites already!!!!

 

[melbournemartin]

I've got the game now. My mate and I went halves on it (my half being returning Virtua Tennis 3). We had a little play and it seemed fun

 

[bradrowe#32]

I hope it bombs pal, that fact IR Gurus still have the rights to produce these games is very disappointing to hear.

Stop blaming time constraints for all the bugs/problems etc.

You still expect people to pay $60.00 or more for a yearly tweak, what a scam.

Pretty ordinary comments. They do the best they can without having a mega budget. If they have to have a game out by a certain time, then what do you expect them to do?

I missed out by owning an XBOX, but I'm considering getting a PS2 because they are relatively cheap nowadays and they have some exclusive games. Having watched a couple of trailors on Youtube, it looks like a pretty good game.

 

[steviewonder36]

Stop having a go you moron, you haven't played the game and all you have heard is talk about what it is like, and also when you can create a game that is even remotley as good as this I will pay $1000 for it as you seem to think you could make it better, but you aren't going to make one because you are a loser.

Spoken like a typical little immature bigfooty fool.

If you are going to argue your point, at least try to sound intelligent.

 

[HBK619]

Spoken like a typical little immature bigfooty fool.

If you are going to argue your point, at least try to sound intelligent.

You can talk, your argument that this game is crap is "Oh, this game sucks because other people said so."

Why don't you go out and play it then come back and give your thoughts.

 

[melbournemartin]

The amount of smothers is terrible. It makes close in football nearly impossible as you can't get a kick away.

 

[melbournemartin]

I just noticed that Simon Buckley of Melbourne is a star. Ain't checked his stats though but he has the icon.

 

[melbournemartin]

Just had a pretty good game on hard vs the Eagles. 32 vs 45 loss in 5 minute quarters. The excess smothering does ruin it though.

 

[keepzitreal]

I just beat Freo in the NAB Cub semi final by 2 goals leaving out my best 15 players.

Really enjoying the game. Speed and gameplay is so much better and its a bit easier to mark. Its hard to run and handball though but hopefully its just a matter of getting used to it.

Does anyone know how to win the ruck contests? I lose every single one and have to rely on tackling the opposition player that gets it

 

[melbournemartin]

I'm sorry but...so far...this is a complete mess.

It is nearly impossible to get a kick away as they are NEARLY ALL smothered! Then, if the kick isn't smothered, you are most likely tackled and it's holding the ball. This makes it nearly impossible to have a shot at goal from a realtively tight situation as you can't bloody get your kick away, let alone wait for the goal target thing to line up. At least 06 was playable, this is far from it.

 

[mainboardboycotter]

Sounds positive bar a few problems which were always going to occur, I look forward to purchasing it

 

[melbournemartin]

I'd call the match engine being almost unplayable being more than 'a few problems'.

 

[HBK619]

I'd call the match engine being almost unplayable being more than 'a few problems'.

It isn't unplayable, you just have to get used to it, get certain gameplans going, and it becomes great.

Just lost the NAB Cup Grand Final with Freo coming from behind kicking 5 goals in a row to win by 2 points with me playing sloppy footy towards the end, was a really tight contest all through with the scores going back and forth all the way through.

 

[krashdown]

Hi, i was wondering what is the best way to deal with injured players at the training menu, Because even once they're no longer have an injury and are playable they still have the crap stats and the red and yellow faces, Where the uninjured stats should be.

and they still act as if they are injured when you put them into back into your side of 22.

What am i doing wrong i train them with the rest of the players on balanced and on medium seting and sometimes on heavy.

the game is betterbut keep in mind that Ir guruis are not a big company and they do the best they can (as far as i know).

If the game sold more copys they might be able spend more money on it but the fan base for AFL videogames isn't like what fifa or grand theft auto is and it never will be.

SO, Always be Grateful for what you get

 

[steviewonder36]

You can talk, your argument that this game is crap is "Oh, this game sucks because other people said so."

Why don't you go out and play it then come back and give your thoughts.

Who said I haven't played it!

Only redeeming feature so far is the amount of different jumpers.

 

[Xtreme]

Well i guess a good indication is how well it is selling and around my area it seems to be selling like hotcakes as i can't get a copy .