FATAL ERROR
Obviously this is awful, it's literally an unfinished build and the fact that they wanted this out before Christmas is a laugh. Every game crashes exactly upon (or before) finishing the 2nd quarter, no matter the length - and the excruciatingly long pause this takes before any sort of play feels like the thing is about to violently brick your console. That being said, there's a lot of impressive features for its time here: the interactive weather system in particular, as well as the neat (but hella repetitive) 3D touchdown dances. Plus it's actually pretty diverting trying to avoid a critical error, it becomes a game in itself - the very specific sets of options one must do to keep this thing intact feels like diffusing a ticking bomb. The A.I. is also just ridiculously over-aggressive. Crazy to think that EA - the same company responsible for rushing out incomplete game after incomplete game - chose to quietly cancel this rather than shatting it out in time for the holiday shopping season.
Obviously this is awful, it's literally an unfinished build and the fact that they wanted this out before Christmas is a laugh. Every game crashes exactly upon (or before) finishing the 2nd quarter, no matter the length - and the excruciatingly long pause this takes before any sort of play feels like the thing is about to violently brick your console. That being said, there's a lot of impressive features for its time here: the interactive weather system in particular, as well as the neat (but hella repetitive) 3D touchdown dances. Plus it's actually pretty diverting trying to avoid a critical error, it becomes a game in itself - the very specific sets of options one must do to keep this thing intact feels like diffusing a ticking bomb. The A.I. is also just ridiculously over-aggressive. Crazy to think that EA - the same company responsible for rushing out incomplete game after incomplete game - chose to quietly cancel this rather than shatting it out in time for the holiday shopping season.