Three things, first off this is based of playing the game with a buddy who bought it. We found not only was this a **bleep** up for high school but they basically screwed the game up, and some of the blame should be at UT.
Second, the high school was all hyped and yes its sucks. 4 out of 5 moments in 5 games is not what people wanted for the mode. Some of the moments made no sense for the player and plays, but some of them moments we were robbed over. Db was one moment to tackle for a loss, and i did it with another team player finishing the tackle with me...I hit first, and play done; didn't get the check, got told failed moment. This is not what people wanted in this game. Once cheap high school is done, college part was made way too much harder, with broken logic of the coaches and how the mode played out.
So third, college time. My buddy and I choose 1 or 2 star schools to play with, first year it was Kent State. Both of us road the bench the first year, while near the end of the year having the coach being angry we were not doing enough but were 3 string players.. Second year was more the same. rode the bench, struggling to earn enough to move up, and struggling with the gpa which seemed to disappear over the weeks despite at times putting all my points into studying. Near the end of the second season, played one quarter, lead the winning td, second game was the 4th quarter, lead from behind to a win in overtime. Yet was benched again, while being told I basically had to get my head straight as the coach was angry for failing again. WTF. I transfered to Temple with offer for starter, yet sat the bench for the first 8 games. Confused since my points and trust was double of the starting QB....before I got to play one game...400 4 TD, 2 sacks, ran for 49 yards. Lost the job again, and dropped to 3rd string...again WTF. Didn't play senior, left the game behind. My buddy has similar issues with different positions, which made it frustrating to enjoy the mode. Worse was the logic of the coaching, to the level of how little you get for so much work only to struggle playing the game. We flipped it with picking other school when we could like Florida and Utah...Texas AM...but still similar outcomes. Its strange to built this mode up so much and have it fail so bad. I was hyped about this mode, glad I didn't buy the game.
Ps. the team working on this mode said this was part of a several stages process of the mode, and that was always the plan...to build up instead of just having the full mode out. It makes me wonder if we might have to wait 2 to 3 more years to get the mode that was part of the 12-14 games...I comment on them about why those games did some much better for an older system and why its a struggle to match that or make it better. Only responds form EA forum was its part of the process. Don't waste your time on this mode, let alone this game. Its still broken, still a mess, and might just take 3 years to be as good as classics.
