March Madness 06 Impressions

[RubenDouglas]

Re: March Madness 06 Impressions

maybe im way over my head here asking, but could someone post New mexioc's rosters, whether just numbers, pos, yr, height, or take a screenshot, or even just number and race....

this could potenitially save me 6 dollars, from rental fees.

Thanks guys

[kennytomson]

Re: March Madness 06 Impressions

i like the game, college basketball is probably my favorite sport, but there are some things that bother me...

-the dribbling seems to slow, crossovers, etc.

-75% of dunks underneath look like a 'shaq' dunk, and then they slap the backboard with both hands (never seen this in a real college game, especially from a pg)

-there's a 'pised off up in your face' animation after almost every foul...that is not college basketball

-it was there last year but i still hate the 'ultimate spiderman' player models, way too arcady and cartoonish. this series needs to get more realistic for the next generation of systems (ultimate spiderman link below)

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...85453?v=glance

-still not sold on the lockdown stick.


last year it seemed the MM team focused on the unis, this year its on the floors. at least if my two small schools are to be an example, the floors are close to perfect. the physics/player movements are more realistic, which hopefully is a small taste of more to come for the xbox360/ps3, but overall not alot different from last year. if you're a huge college basketball fan like myself, there never is an option as to whether you're picking up the game or not. but if you can wait for a potenial 360 or ps3 release, i guarentee that's where most of the attention for the development team was focused this year (thus the reduced price).

[racerx]

Re: March Madness 06 Impressions

As a College Hoops 2k5 fan. I broke down and bought this game. I did not like last years game at all.

My first game I played 10 min halves and I played Kentucky vs Iona. I know cupcake, but I just wanted to get a feel for the game. I played on Varsity but not by choice. At first I went into the opening menu and messed with some of the settings. There was not a option to set the difficulty or the min halves. You have to do this in the options menu in the team selection screen. I did not know that at the time so I just went into the game.

- They have the keys to the game opening like last years.

- I was trying to find a good camera angle to play with so I settled for press with some zoom from the default.

- I noticed a lot of steals in the begining of the game with the Kentucky but they were playing Iona. I still need practice with the lockdown stick because the computer players were getting most of the steals not me. I liked how they adjusted in the 2nd half because I was able to get 9 turnovers in the first half but only 4 in the second.

- The game play stills feels like ice skating but not as bad as last year. I guess I am use to the tight feel from College Hoops. It is tighten up from last year like someone previously mentioned.

- I kept doing that alleyoop move becuase icon passing is the opposite button as it is in College Hoops.

- The FG% at the end of the game looked good. 39% for Iona and 44% for Kentucky that won 79-62.

- For me the game speed was fast at the default 50 so I lowered it to 40 and it felt a little better. I also do not like the fact that there is no Auto-Sub feature. Overall the feel of the game was not bad, the atmosphere was awesome but it still feels to arcady. Maybe some slider adjustments (Playmakers) might help.

I still need to play more to get a better feel for my final decision. This could be a keeper for me once 2k6 comes out.

One last thing somebody ask - Mid range shots were not automatic like last years, although being open will help, they still miss.

Racerx

[RubenDouglas]

Re: March Madness 06 Impressions

^hey, as with nbalive, subs are dealt with via the substustion frequency via sliders... so it may be located there.

[Peter_OS]

Re: March Madness 06 Impressions

Can you edit all the player names in this year's game?

Does the game run in 720p, like NBA Live 06 does??

Thanks for the impressions guys!

[Drag66]

Re: March Madness 06 Impressions

How is the framerate on the XBOX? Last year it was terrible - VERY choppy. I liked the game last year, but the framerate killed it for me.

[MaddenLivER]

Re: March Madness 06 Impressions

i dont think there is an edit player limit this year or the guys who are doing the rosters wouldve told us already

[ExtremeGamer]

Re: March Madness 06 Impressions

Can you edit all the player names in this year's game?

Does the game run in 720p, like NBA Live 06 does??

Thanks for the impressions guys!

Game isn't in 720p.

Still waiting on someone to even try doing rosters. The Gamefaqs boards are dead for this game, I wonder if anyone's even attempted them yet.

[Chairface1]

Re: March Madness 06 Impressions

i dont think there is an edit player limit this year or the guys who are doing the rosters wouldve told us already

I don't think there is a limit like in last year’s game, but you're ability to edit rosters is still limited in that not every team's roster can be edited. As I've said before, All-Time teams (including the new All-Time conference teams) cannot be edited. There's your limitation for this year.

I know I'm harping on this, but I think it's absolutely ludicrous for EA to promote the All-Time teams feature (video and IGN interview) and not allow those teams to be edited.

Also, with numbers wrong, and no years (like in NCAA Football 06) to help identify players, what’s the point of having All-Time teams if you don’t know who’s on each team?

[kirkangil]

Re: March Madness 06 Impressions

Any t-shirts?

[sparker]

Re: March Madness 06 Impressions

How is the framerate on the XBOX? Last year it was terrible - VERY choppy. I liked the game last year, but the framerate killed it for me.

I didn't notice a framerate issue for XBOX. Others should also chime in here though.

On the rosters my hope is to use the auto-name feature to put a name on everyone in the game, and then go in manually and edit the players/teams selectively that I care about most.

Someone mentioned the substitutions frequency bar in NBA Live 06. I don't recall seeing that one in MM06 last night. I know I didn't see an autosub feature. I hope the bar/slider is there, but I don't really recall seeing it.

[sparker]

Re: March Madness 06 Impressions

Any t-shirts?

I don't remember seeing any on players in games I played last night. I suspect t-shirts are in the edit menus though.

[ExtremeGamer]

Re: March Madness 06 Impressions

I didn't notice a framerate issue for XBOX. Others should also chime in here though.

On the rosters my hope is to use the auto-name feature to put a name on everyone in the game, and then go in manually and edit the players/teams selectively that I care about most.

Someone mentioned the substitutions frequency bar in NBA Live 06. I don't recall seeing that one in MM06 last night. I know I didn't see an autosub feature. I hope the bar/slider is there, but I don't really recall seeing it.

Is there an auto name feature? That would solve some issues.

[racerx]

Re: March Madness 06 Impressions

Is there an auto name feature? That would solve some issues.

Yes there is under School Managment in the main menu.

Racerx

[racerx]

Re: March Madness 06 Impressions

maybe im way over my head here asking, but could someone post New mexioc's rosters, whether just numbers, pos, yr, height, or take a screenshot, or even just number and race....

this could potenitially save me 6 dollars, from rental fees.

Thanks guys

#13 C 6'9" SR
#1 PF 6'10' JR
#32 SF 6'5" SO
#5 SG 6' 2" SR
#3 PG 6' 2" SR
#35 PF 6' 9" SO
#24 PG 6' 1" SO
#22 PG 6' 1" SR
#20 PG 6' 0" JR
#23 SF 6' 6" SO
#00 C 6' 7" SO
#25 SG 6'4" SO

Hope this helps
Racerx