So this may be a worthless question, but I recently bought MLB The Show (I still love my "old" PS2), and it's the first game where I found a career mode where you actually play all the plays that you're involved in, and that's it, in order to build up a player and make his stats better, etc... Anyways, I was wondering if any other games have this feature. Like an NBA game where you only play as your character, and when you get benched you skip ahead to your next appearance in the game. Sure would be better than the player lock or anything else close. Or an NFL game where you can only impact the side of the ball you play on, etc...I think it would be awesome. Anyways...are there other games like this for other sports? There may be, but I'm behind on my RC posts. Thanks guys...just looking for something fun to do once the Rockets are out of the playoffs.
Sure, yeah...I'm not talking about games that just have a create-a-player option, but like in The Show--it skips ahead to plays where you are actually relevant, and involves a lot of other options like interpersonal relationships with ownership and teammates, salary options, etc... I'll take any sports games that have those kinds of features--I just wasn't aware of which ones might.
Madden has that, I think it's called Superstar mode. Same thing for NCAA football where it's called Campus Legend.
I knew about Campus Legend, but aren't you still controlling your team all the game with that? It becomes too easy to master the whole game that way. I would prefer it if you can create a player and then you can ONLY control that player throughout your "career." It would make the multi-year dynasties quicker and more playable, and you could theoretically be a great player and never really win it all. It's more realistic. I haven't played Madden in years--is it a similar thing to Campus Legend? I want it so I can ONLY control my player, and I don't want to sit and watch while the rest of my team does stuff--I want to skip ahead to the next time my player is on the field. EDIT: I just read about them introducing this kind of feature into Madden 2007...I'll have to buy that. Any other sports games do this?
In campus legend, at least the most recent version, you only control 1 player. Most, but not all, positions are available. For example, you can't be a kicker but you can be a LT if you want. You start off playing in the HS playoffs. You choose your postion, player type (ex. classic QB or option QB) and city/state. You then play the playoffs controlling only your player. You don't call the plays, you just run what the coach calls. How well you perform and how deep you go in the playoffs determine how big of a prospect you are. You then get scholarship offers from different schools and it tells you where you'd be on the depth chart (3rd string HB). You also have the option of just starting with an existing player. When you enroll you go to practice every day and you get points for certain accomplishments (first down, TD). There are also non-football things that affect your attributes and GPA (Do you study for a test or go to the bar with friends). When you get enough points your stats improve and eventually you move up the depth chart and take a starting job. If you're low on the depth chart and you play a game you may not even get a single play or maybe you get in on special teams and that's it. If you're a starter and it's a blowout, you'll probably spend the 4th quarter on the bench. After you graduate (or declare early) you can import your player to Madden where you can continue your career. You sign with an agent, go through the combine, do interviews, take the Wonderlic test, and then get drafted. Madden does a few things differently. You have a sphere of influence and depending on how good you are and how well you perform in practice and the game, you can either improve your attributes or the attributes of the players on the field with you or you can lower the attributes of your opponents. Again, you can do this with an existing player too, Abome Okoye for example. But during all of this, you control only your player. If you're not good enough, you ride the pine. If you get tired, you get subbed out. The coach calls the plays, you just run them. When you're out of the game you have the option of watching the next play(though not interacting) or skipping all plays until you're back on the field. That's pretty much what you're looking for right?
Yeah, the Superstar mode in Madden is pretty similar. I played it in Madden 07. I can't remember all the specifics, but it wasn't nearly as fun as the RTTS mode in MLB The Show IMO. I think I played MLB 07 at around the same time, so I compared the two in my mind a lot. Maybe they improved it for Madden 08 (and NCAA 08, whatever they called the mode there). I never checked it out, but I'm guessing there was a similar mode in one of the older Sony NBA games. I think it was called The Life or something like that. I don't have any idea if they kept that mode for the more recent releases though. I just remember the previews/ads touting how you could "live the life" of an NBA superstar, so I'm assuming it played out like a career mode. If NBA 2K or Madden had a mode half as good as RTTS in MLB The Show, I think those games would be much better. Or at least more addicting. Maybe it is just something about the sport of baseball that makes it easier to implement and/or more addicting.
I described NCAA transferring into Madden. I don't have a PS3 so I haven't played The Show. There may be something to what RC Cola said, that while it's there, it's not quite as addictive as The Show is. I'd say go out and rent it and see if its enough to hold your interest. It was my favorite mode in the game but I admit that it does end up getting pretty repetitive.
Yes, it is in NCAA Football 2008. And on the main display screen when you start up your game they have a highlight real of your best plays (if you have saved them). It is pretty sweet.
I don't remember career mode being anything like The Show. I think you created a player and still played as the whole team?
I'd love to see this in a basketball game. Also, how come nobody has ever made a 5 on 5 online basketball game?
I love it in The Show. Similar in Madden. But a little overly detailed in Madden...too many practice sessions and stuff to deal with. I mean you gotta schedule 2 a week on your own and everything and then go do them.. They need to make Madden (and for that matter, NBA Live's franchise mode) more easy to stream through. I like details, but I don't like the cumbersome method you have to go through of different menus, adding things to schedules, loading, performing, etc. between EVERy game. It's hard enough to play all the games on a schedule and not SIM them..
I've wondered how that would work too. Seems pretty difficult to organize basketball offense, esp if the players are on live and don't know or can't talk to each other.
Yeah, I know it'd be a lot of stuff to work out, but I always imagined having online leagues and someone be coach and handle substitutions and call plays etc. Also requiring players to have voice chat. Probably a reach, but who knows.
NBA 2K8 already has 5 v 5 possibility on the PS3. All 5 from a team has to be one one PS3 though, so only 2 PS3s can connect. I have never played a 5v5 game but have played 2v2 and it's pretty boring, 5v5 would be really boring IMO.
