Oscillator3
19 days agoSeasoned Newcomer
The Worst Football Video Game Ever Made!!!!!!
College Football 26 is by far the absolute worst football video game ever created, and I have many reasons for this justification:
- The ballcarrier AI is atrocious. The runners are constantly juking and cutting when it's not needed, causing them to almost always lose yardage. They also constantly run at defenders instead of toward the open field. When running wide, they just continue to try to stretch the play out instead of getting upfield to get as much yardage as possible. Kids in reality are taught this in peewee football.
- The offensive line blocking is non-existent. I have timed it and most passing plays there is less than 1 second to even throw the ball. They also can't run block to save their digital lives.
- Defensive players are super-human. Constantly swatting balls away when they aren't facing the ball at all, intercepting the ball with their backs, jumping more than 15 feet in the air to make an interception, and happening to run right to where the ball is being thrown before it's even decided the ball is being thrown to the receiver. There's also gross pass interference on every play that is almost never called. (This happens in real football, but not even close to this extent.) They also are somehow able to be sprinting in one direction, stop, jump 10-20 feet backwards in the opposite direction, and make a diving interception 10 yards behind them within a fraction of a second. Having played football, I can assure you this is physically impossible!
- Position Battles are next to impossible to beat, so if you don't get a starting position right off the bat, good luck ever winning the job.
- You can only enter the transfer portal at the end of the season. There's no separate transfer windows like there are in real-life.
If these items are not addressed, I will no longer be playing the game and will never purchase it, or Madden for that matter, again in the future.
This is what happens when you let nerds who've never set foot on a football field create a football video game.