Avatar Football Hits Xbox 360 Indie Marketplace - Gameplay Video Included

[KingNick865]

This game has some fairly interesting quirks to it.

There is dynamic field degradation when playing in the rain to the point where it's hard to make out the sideline in the 4th quarter. Haven't played in snow, so I can't answer if the snow envelops the ground by the end of the game (similar to NCAA 08 if I remember correctly).

The weather does have an effect on gameplay. When throwing in sunny weather, I was hitting a lot of my passes. When throwing in rainy weather, receivers are more prone to drops. Rainy weather also causes there to be more fumbles in a game as well.

The custom playbook maker is a lot more fleshed out than you'd think a $3 game would have. The amount of plays you can draw up is almost endless. For example, I love the air raid offense, so I've been busy drawing up staple plays in the typical air raid playbook. (Meshes, Y Shallow Cross, Four Verticals, etc.).

Another interesting thing about this game is that in the menus before the game starts, you can have one team from one roster play a team from another roster. For example, if you have an NFL roster, and an NCAA roster, you can take one team from the NFL roster and have them play against a team from the NCAA roster.

The gameplay is pretty solid, and is definitely inspired by Tecmo Bowl. You aren't going to be pulling any Bo Jackson stuff though, especially on the "Hard" difficulty, which does offer a pretty substantial challenge without it seeming like it's trying to cheat you out of the game.

A couple things I would like to see be added if there is ever a future update.
- The ability to edit how many teams are in a save. (Specifically for the function of cutting teams that you don't need)
- The ability to edit how many teams a division and conference will hold.
- The ability to edit the schedule before your season begins. (I don't know if this is already available or not)
- Oh, and the ability to watch CPU vs. CPU games.

[jyoung]

Hard difficulty is definitely a legit challenge. I was playing week 1 as the Titans, and the Patriots blew me out by 20+ points. I couldn't get any pressure on Tom Brady, and my secondary couldn't cover any of their receivers.

[statnut]

Quote: Originally Posted by jyoung

The entire second half was nuts after a fairly unexciting first half. I am in the roster sharing room right now if anyone wants to grab the NFL roster.

How does one do this?

[CoffeyN]

I'm interested in rosters if anyone is sharing.

[boomhauertjs]

If you only have Xbox Silver, you can't download shared rosters. Tomorrow I'll try downloading JYoung's offline rosters (unless someone has an unused Gold free trial they'd let me use).

[elgreazy1]

This looks pretty promising. I'll try to download it sometime soon.

[tril]

is there a full season mode

[jyoung]

There is a single season mode with stat tracking and playoffs.

The schedule is actually identical to the 2012-2013 NFL schedule.