Chronogamer

Played this one tonight. Soccer seems truly dreadful, clunky and perpetually gridlocked, with very little rhyme or reason to the control. The following quote from the manual is very telling:

 

"Players can block each other if they make body contact and will become immobilized. If several players jam and are unable to move, use both joysticks to separate them. If this does not unlock the jam, press RESET and start a new game."

 

Worse yet, you can score from the side of the goal -- quite a nasty bug! We quit Hockey after a minute fearing it was more of the same, but perhaps we'll give it another chance now. At least the above warning doesn't fully apply -- the Hockey section of the manual has a similar quote to the above, but without the third line.

The jamming issue happens in both games. It's really annoying. Even playing single-player, leaving the 2nd team with its controller untouched, it was a pain to score goals. That shows just how much the player jamming is an issue in these two games.

 

One cool thing though is that when you shoot, the ball/puck wont stop until you release the action button. I had more fun once I started doing long shots instead of running with the ball. In hockey this feature is taken to the extreme that the puck will *never* stop as it's never out of play, ricocheting on the sides ad eternum.

On 8/11/2010 at 10:01 PM, thegoldenband said:

"Players can block each other if they make body contact and will become immobilized. If several players jam and are unable to move, use both joysticks to separate them. If this does not unlock the jam, press RESET and start a new game."

 

HAHAHAH that's awesomely bad! "If you encounter this bug, um, just restart, we couldn't fix it." xD

On 1/24/2013 at 7:43 PM, Nelio said:

In hockey this feature is taken to the extreme that the puck will *never* stop as it's never out of play, ricocheting on the sides ad eternum.

I know it's Latin, but "ad eternum" for some reason makes me think of cryptocurrency now.