Either I suck like a Vietnamese prostitute at this game or something is seriously not right.

My dad just got this game, so we decided to play. The first game we played he ground me into the dirt. Second game I lost 6 to 5. The third game we played is really pissing me off. I didn't just lose. I lost 28-7. Every time I hike the ball I get sacked unless I manage to dish the ball off within 1 second. I can't do running plays because I get sacked before I can even hand the ball off. 3/4 of my pass attempts are intercepted. On defense, I can't tackle anybody unless I hit them with 2 men at the same time. The only thing I seem to be able to do is swat away pass attempts.

Furthermore, on about 1 in 4 plays, one of my players is injured. Every time I do something right, a penalty is called. I complete a pass: offensive pass interference. I run the ball for all of 5 yards: holding. The only forward progress I usually make is from shotgun formation, occasionally I can get the QB around the defensive line and run for a couple yards.

The play that really gets me went down like this: 2nd and long around the 40 or 50 yd line. From shotgun formation, I hike the ball. After a few seconds one of my receivers is in the right of the endzone alone. The nearest defender is covering another one of my receivers at about the 15 yd line on the left side of the field (a good 20+ yards from the open receiver). I throw the ball at the open receiver. By the time the ball gets to my receiver, the defender is just getting to the endzone, but on the opposite side of the endzone. As my receiver reaches up to catch the ball, the defender puts his hands up and his animation freezes, he then glides through the air at like 60 mph. His animation resumes as HE SOMEHOW MANAGED TO INTERCEPT THE BALL.

I figured it was just some kind of a glitch and tried to tackle him with my receiver. My receiver grabs hold of his waist and is dragged to about the 5 yd line where the defender encounters the receiver he was originally covering. I use the 'hit-stick 2.0' low figuring that should take him down, but no. Instead, the receiver that had a hold of him is dislodged. The defender flies through the air doing a full forward flip, lands on his feet AND CONTINUES RUNNING.

As he neared the line of scrimmage I tried to tackle him with one of my linemen. The lineman bounced off like he was trying to tackle a brick wall. I tried another tackle with the same effect. At this point, half my team is laying on the ground. He has no problem reaching the endzone.

The replay confirmed that my eyes had not deceived me. I watched it about 5 times from the game highlights.

WTF is going on?

9/2/2007 1:58:45 PM

http://www.brentroad.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=472747

9/2/2007 2:25:14 PM

quit playing as the raiders

9/2/2007 2:45:24 PM

^^ i used search and that thread didn't come up.

^ i was playing as the patriots

9/2/2007 2:50:02 PM

ibtl

9/3/2007 2:27:39 AM

I can run the ball pretty good, but I obviously suck at passing. I rarely complete a whole game, because after throwing 4 int's in the first half I quit in frustration.

I can't believe I paid $60 for this game.

9/4/2007 12:24:35 AM

Quote :

"used search and that thread didn't come up."

Yeah, that's because for some reason they decided to put a video game in the Sports Talk section. Well, that and the search function stinks on ice.

9/4/2007 8:34:30 AM

9/4/2007 1:15:33 PM

yea whos bright idea was it to put video game threads in the sports section?

9/4/2007 1:31:48 PM

So I played against the CPU yesterday and won 101-0 on pro difficulty with 6-minute quarters (me=Colts, CPU=Patriots)

9/9/2007 12:48:57 AM

YO HOLMES!

9/9/2007 2:06:24 AM

YOU GUYS NEED TO USE THESE THINGS CALLED SLIDERS. THEN MAYBE YOU'D PLAY A BALANCED GAME AND YOU CAN GET THE INTERCEPTION PROBLEM THAT NCAA AND MADDEN HAVE FIXED! JOIN THE FORUMS AT WWW.OPERATIONSPORTS.COM AND TRY SOME OUT. K THANKS AND QUIT COMPLAINING ABOUT A GOOD GAME.

9/9/2007 10:51:56 AM

^ thank you for that bit of advice. but the real question is WHY DOESN'T IT DEFAULT TO REALISTIC SETTINGS

I was playing against my brother the other day and intercepted 100% of his pass attempts.

9/11/2007 12:25:24 PM

because people would bitch about it then too

sliders are the best shit to happen to sports games

9/11/2007 12:35:11 PM