GAA Computer game

[brendy_éire]

Cheaper at http://www.sendit.com/game/item/6000000002479

[paul_oshea]

square = sligo beat roscommon then lose to mayo

when did that happen>? the first part that is.

[gustavo]

1997.
anyway i meant it as a term we can beat one of the other teams in one year but not both usually how it goes.

[oconghc2]

Press triangle button for Westmeath to bottle it
Press square to go on the beer the night before a match
Press circle to call your supporters "animals"

would be more accurate if you changed Westmeath with Irish Soccer team!!

most intercounty players would stay off the drink for months leading up to championship!

animals?? suppose we have treated Brian Kerr pretty bad!!!

[Countyman]

did you notice the screenshots in the paper this week with Mayo playing Kerry and it had a Mayo player blasting the ball past his own keeper!!!

Very worrying...although it is Mayo I suppose.

[feo123]

It will probably have the real players from the likes of Armagh, Tyrone, Dublin, Kerry and 1or2 more.....definately wont have all the real players! i'm sure you will be able to edit in whatever players you want though

[aidz1]

seen an advert for it on a friends pc.
it was a good ad, though it showed feck all of the game itself!!
i'm not expecting it to be great, though it'll probably sell by the lorry load due to the novelty aspect of it

[shedite]

Absolutely the worst game I have ever played. It's on a par with fifa's from about 97-98 in terms of graphics.

Game play is totally unrealistic too. They've copied aussie rules and didn't bother to change some of the rules. Subs come on and off during play, and ther's a dodgy advantage rule too which I've never seen in gaelic.

No players exist. For names they are simply "p1" up to "P30" for each team. Shooting is rubbish and keepers run away from the ball if it lands in the box.

Basically, looks like marketing people decided that it MUST be finished for christmas so they've sent out a below standard version. Commentry has about 10 sayings which gets VERY repetitive.

Only good thing is the jerseys and stadiums which are perfect except for the fact that every pitch is about 3 times wider than normal.

Avoid this game at ALL costs!!!

[Ruairi]

^^

you're just bitter over who's doing the commentary

I've heard it's sh!te altogether alright.. and TBH it was an absolute PR disaster not to have the GPA on board..

[Poor Student]

Shedite has said it all really. It's completely crap. Goals are easier to score than points. I actually kept a clean sheet against my brother. Graphics are below par, though they have put a good effort into replicating stadiums. Gameplay is just really really bad. As I said, hard to kick points, tackling is ridiculous (you hold down on O while harassing a player for several seconds, hear a ridiculous sounding thud, followed by a more ridiculous grunt and the ball falls in some random direction). Control response is slow and it's impossible to hand pass fluidly. One small nice touch is that encroaching on a free kick wins you an extra ten yards and mentioned earlier, the stadiums. Poor game. Perhaps this is a starting point to good things though. A platform now exists to build a better game on. The first ISS/Pro Evo game on the Playstation was similarly awful. Either it'll gradually improve or disappear. Given there's no real players they cannot simply sell player update sequels. Any sequel will have to show a tangible improvement to gameplay.

[Rory H]

i didnt see it in action but heard its pathetic

[The Stars]

Worst game ever!!!!!
If they bring out a new one next year and dont change it completly it wont sell 100 copies.

[paul_oshea]

http://www.rte.ie/arts/2005/1117/gaelicgames.html

what???

[declan hide]

played it last night. terrible. block men in close ups. did someone say looked like fifa on ps1? spot on.

[ollie]

what???

he must the PR officer and spin doctor all in one for the game


heard of a lot of people who bought the game on the friday morning that the game was released and brought it back that afternoon.

[silentbob]

Worst game ever, dont buy it, and if you already have, give it away as a christmas present to someone who doesnt know any better!!

[gufcfan]

Worst game ever, dont buy it, and if you already have, give it away as a christmas present to someone who doesnt know any better!!

I have to agree. I hope that the game does really well though. No seriously. Think about it. If the game is big Christmas hit then it will demonstrate to games companies that there is a market for a GAA game.

Then hopefully a proper games developer will give it a lash.

You couldnt help but feel that corners were cut at every... well... corner.

So many things could have been done. But so little was needed to be done in the first place to make the game at least playable... or god forbid, maybe even fun

[DolansWaistcoat]

It is a shocklingly back game played it twice couldn't score a point!

[keenanboy]

As the Comic Store Guy would say in the Simpsons "worst game ever."
Must disagee with the praise on this topic for the replication of stadiums in the game. The had 12 venues to do and they all look crap. Take a look at pro evo 5 which has 35 or so stadiums. They look savage. People forget this was a game developed by a gaming company, it wasn't thrown together by the gaa on Sean Kellys laptop. Its inexcusable muck

[Neish]

People forget this was a game developed by a gaming company, it wasn't thrown together by the gaa on Sean Kellys laptop. Its inexcusable muck

I heard the company who devloped it, just took an Aussie Rules game which they already had on the market and tweaked it to look more lik a GAA game. But I coul be wrong.