AFL Games?

[NICK94]

ive played the afl playstation games a few times (mainly 06 and 07) and they're pretty good. The fact i can get a 250 point win over port at AAMI and can get Richo to kick 10 goals against the wind in a single quarter is pretty damn good. if only we could do that in reality...
anyway who else has played any of the games and what did they think?

 

[Rancid_Beasties]

EA Sports or someone with a similar budget needs to purchase the AFL license. The only decent AFL game for its time was AFL 98, after that the gap between FIFA/NBA/NHL/NFL/PRO EVO and the AFL offerings was so gargantuan in a given year that if you looked at them next to each other you would swear one was made recently and the other was made 5 years ago.


Major flaws of AFL games:


Commentary (repetitive)
Graphics (so poor in comparison to just about any other game, even some rugby and cricket offerings for christs sake!)
Statistics: why in season mode in '06 couldnt you see any player stats, and why was the brownlow voting completely random, and why couldnt you see the coleman medal leaders till the end of the year. FIFA '94 had a more complex stats system!
Trading: why are the drafts combined! this is an afl licensed product so how hard is it to distinguish between the national draft (and stop using recycled names! all it takes is a few hours data entry and you could have a plethora of different surnames for rookies), the rookie draft and the preseason draft.

AFL games are only worth playing because they are the only afl game other than that they are THE worst sporting games ever. Except AFL 98. That shit rocked my socks.

 

[Darth_Tiger]

yeah i hear you rancid. they are crap. the worst by FAR was Sheedys AFL coach. Anyone else play that game? what a lemon! the trouble is the game is so complex it would cost way too much money to do it properly.

 

[NICK94]

afl 07 has all the player stats during the season, so the coleman (which was a complete random pick of forwards in 06) and the brownlow (player of the match is awarded so the tallies are counted up end of season). also you can change player info such as height, hair colour, DOB, name, number etc. hopefully next year there will be a newbie afl game with a bit of difference from the others.

 

[sante]

AFL games are shit.

 

[NICK94]

better than rugby/gridiron...

 

[Brooksy88]

i think the worst things about the AFL games is the fact that they come out in like August so you get like 2 months before the list changes or in the case of the latest one, foley was still rated pretty low & gasper had been gone for ages. couple of months later krak, bowden, hartigan are gone and we have mcmahon, morton etc followed by the drafts. they need to bring it out in like febuary/march when all the excitement of the upcoming season is at its peak.

 

[Jisha]

better than rugby/gridiron...

Lol they may be better than rugby/gridiron games but they are still shit

 

[emperor]

all shithouse

rugby 2007/8 shits all over any AFL game that has been produced

 

[ToroHombre]

There are tons of things the AFL games lack:
- Half decent graphics
- The option to save rosters (on 2007, I had to take Gaspar, Kingsley, Knobel, Hall etc out of the side every time I wanted to play an exhibition match because I wanted to have Richmonds current best side on)
- Decent player movement
- Decent marking (im sick of players sprinting towards the ball to mark it and suddenly diving COMPLETELY in the opposite direction to take the mark)
- Interesting commentary
- Fair umpiring decisions
- Loose balls taking unrealistically large and weird bounces
- On previous games, the 3 Brownlow votes ALWAYS went to the player with the most possessions, which was usually the fullback/kick-in taker on the losing team if you kicked a lot of behinds
- Combining all the recycled players and the new players in the draft
- No fantasy draft option (that would be interesting)
- Balls always going DEAD STRAIGHT during set shots for goals, even in heavy wind (the wind still affects the kick, it just starts where it would end up, and stays there for the duration of the kick)

The list goes on and on...