Sports game of the year

Recruiting, a personnel management experience unique to this game, is more streamlined when managed from the Online Dynasty website EA Sports built. Bells and whistles like the ability to write and publish stories associated with your team's exploits added a fun measure of passive-aggressive trash talking, and a means to connect players to the stories they were imagining in their own seasons.

Both tap into the grass-roots appeal of an emerging sport. Because of the studio support and sustainable player interest required by Live Broadcast - which must hold up for the next two years or more - it's too soon to tell if this will be the way of the future for this type of game. But on a single-event basis it was right there with the most fun you could have online this year. FIFA 11 added goalkeepers to become the first game supporting man rosters in cooperative multiplayer; Madden NFL 11 also added a third player to its cooperative multiplayer mode, as well as a perk system inspired by combat shooters' online multiplayer.

Both extended the experience for sports' two largest online communities. Crosse Studios took this honor among an admittedly small pool of candidates last year, and does so again this year by becoming the first independent sports video game to be fully licensed by a professional sports league. Long wished-for by many in the insular pro lacrosse fanbase, the game released in April with all of the teams and player likeness from the National Lacrosse League, and demonstrated that niche promotions which can't crack establishment media gatekeepers can still find an audience in video games, and the cachet that comes with it.

Outfield targets, multiplier scoring and variable pitch speeds do all the rest, and the total package is a downright compulsive experience. VooFoo Studios and Sony Computer Entertainment VooFoo constructed a strong physics engine that supplies the repeatability and consistency expected of a technical game like billiards.

Its two shot methods placed just enough of a deterministic influence on successfully executing your plans. A beautiful game with obvious multiplayer appeal, Hustle Kings is one of the strongest values in sports gaming this year, retail or downloadable.

Many of 2K9's problems stemmed from the fact the title was taken back from Kush Games and given to Visual Concepts just nine months before its release date. Though visually it remained almost previous-generation in some areas, in gameplay MLB 2K10 is more than a clear improvement, it's a genuinely enjoyable game, largely in its gesture-based pitching. The addition of a singleplayer career mode, even if its advancement was a little hurried especially out of the minor leagues , brought Xbox baseball fans into this obsession at last.

Take-Two Interactive's CEO seems sour on the company's baseball license and we may be seeing a franchise on life support until the deal ends. Still, absent any enthusiasm from its senior management or consumer base, MLB 2K's team turned in an admirably redemptive effort. Honorable Mention : It's unusual to have a comeback when you haven't played a full season yet. If for any reason an advertised prize is unavailable, EA reserves the right to substitute a prize of equal or greater value.

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