garrett@cs.rochester.edu (Bill Garrett) (11/15/90)
I just bought Cyberball by domark/tengen (euro import) as a sports
game fanatic I was really looking forward to this. Oh, well
guess I'll have to wait for Monday Night Football from Dataeast.
fThe graphics iin cyberball are really bad, TV Sports football
blows it away easily, looks like 8 colors or less. The sound is
not so hot, and buggy, sound continues after the reason for it happening
quite often, you don't know what its like to hear a referee's whistle
well into play selection. The manual is so-so doing a good job listing
all the plays but not explaining the simple things, like "how the hell
do you hand off to a running back". On an aside I hate the fact that
the game boasts some 30 offensive fomations but randomly picks four
for you to choose from at any given time. What about the most
important part you ask play value? Well I played my first game with the
instructional team and lost 6-0, I played a second game with real
teams and won 12-6 in triple overtime, I won my third game 26-6, and
the scores went down from there. I mastered the game in under
an hour of play time. (a complete 6 quarter game is only about
20 minutes). It took a week or so of play before I could consistently
beat TV sports football, and gridiron is still challenging. Advice:
save your money.
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