Author Bio
Jayson YoungHome Town: Nashville, TN.
Sports: Football, Basketball, Hockey, Soccer
Games: Old: Ken Griffey Jr. Presents Major League Baseball, Tecmo Super Bowl III: Final Edition, NBA Hangtime, New: All Pro Football 2K8, NHL '09
Teams: Vanderbilt Commodores, Tennessee Titans, Nashville Predators, Memphis Grizzlies
Usernames: OS: wEEman33 Xbox Live: wEEman33 BSD
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Monday, November 16, 2009
01:18 PM - November 16, 2009. Posted by MMChrisS. Written by Jayson Young
If last year’s disappointing Tecmo Bowl: Kickoff was not evidence enough, NBA Unrivaled should help confirm what Tecmo fans have been angrily realizing for the last decade: The company has no idea how to update its classic sports franchises for modern consoles.
In Tecmo Bowl: Kickoff there were too few updates to the dated portions of the game's old-school formula. In NBA Unrivaled the developers not only ignored the existing flaws in the source material, but also eliminated the strengths that made Tecmo NBA Basketball an 8-bit/16-bit legend.
NBA Unrivaled has been removed from its simulation roots and turned into the equivalent of a low-budget, Saturday-morning cartoon.
Read More - NBA Unrivaled (DLC) Review
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
01:47 PM - November 11, 2009. Posted by MMChrisS. Written by Jayson Young
If there’s one area where NHL 2K10 significantly outperforms NHL 10, it’s in the variety-of-goals department. NHL 10, while fun to play, really limits the ways you’re able to generate goals. So hockey fans who pick up the game and try to replicate the kinds of scoring strategies they see on TV might have issues earning wins at first.Fact is, if players wants to score consistently in NHL 10, they have to drop some of those real-life strategies (scoring off clean shots) and lean a bit more on the side of “video-game strategy.”
So with that in mind, here are some ways to consistently score in NHL 10.
Read more - NHL 10: Scoring Strategies
Monday, October 26, 2009
While it's true that NHL 10's AI goalies may still be better at the position than 95 percent of their human counterparts, it still seems like a poor reason to avoid what has become -- thanks to this year's tweaks -- one of the game's most fun positions.
So for anyone who is brave enough to step in the net and attempt to become a part of that top five percent who can actually outwork the AI in goal, here are some quick tips that should help you lead your team to victory.
Read More - NHL 10: Goalie Guide
Monday, October 12, 2009
01:06 PM - October 12, 2009. Posted by MMChrisS. Written by Jayson Young
It has been two full years since a non-EA football sim was released on a Xbox or Playstation console –- five if we disregard 2K Sports’ one-and-done All-Pro Football experiment. No doubt, then, that football fans have been waiting with open arms to embrace any sort of competitor to EA’s continued stranglehold on the genre. But does Nerjyzed Entertainment, an upstart company with a single neglected PC game in its portfolio, have what it takes to tackle the EA football giant that, for 20 years, has dominated the industry with its massive advertising campaigns and multi-million dollar development budgets?
The answer, at least for this year, is no. While developer Nerjyzed nails the "Xperience" of spending a Saturday afternoon at a HBCU football game, it still has much work to do before it gets the "Football" part of its title up to par with the giants of the genre.
Review - Black College Football: The Xperience Review
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Give the NHL 10 team credit, then, for coming the closest anyone’s gotten in recent years to fixing everything that plagued the last version of a sports game -- in this case I'm obviously talking about NHL 09.
Fact is, if you had a problem with something in NHL 09, there’s a good chance it has been fixed for NHL 10:
Read More - NHL 10 Review
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
11:26 AM - September 8, 2009. Posted by MMChrisS. Written by Jayson Young
Like a lot of sports fans, I have spent time getting to know the “popular girl” of sports gaming, EA’s Madden 10. What probably separates my experience from most is that, as someone who has yet to buy an EA football game this generation, I’m usually content with a rental of the latest Madden or NCAA Football. I'm usually content because a weekend of play tends to be enough time for me to realize that the game is still way behind my old flame, All-Pro Football 2K8, in the one area that matters most: gameplay.
This time around I spent more than one weekend with the game, but now that I have had some time to get a feel for the game, here are some reasons why I feel Madden 10 still can't match up to the standards set by my reigning king of gameplay, All-Pro Football 2K8.
Read More - Why All-Pro Football Still Trumps Madden
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
That’s why it’s refreshing to see that, in 2009, a game like Trials HD can come out of nowhere and deliver the kind of dropkick to the dome that NES classics like Battletoads, Contra and Ghosts 'n Goblins all did back in the day.
Read More - Trials HD Review
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
11:51 AM - August 12, 2009. Posted by MMChrisS. Written by Jayson Young
As a follow-up to our NFL 2K5 roundtable, I'm here to talk about an EA/Sega rivalry from another era: the Sega Genesis era.Read on to discover the results of this classic matchup as it's re-examined through a modern lens.
Read More - Football Time Machine Tussle: EA vs. Sega
Thursday, August 6, 2009
12:54 PM - August 6, 2009. Posted by MMChrisS. Written by Jayson Young
As the "HD" subtitle might suggest, Trials HD is not a brand new IP. Rather, it's an update to an under-appreciated PC series that will be making its way to consoles for the first time on August 12.What Trials games have historically offered is the opportunity to strap on a helmet, step on a motorbike and become a virtual Evel Knievel.
Trials HD looks to continue that tradition by giving riders the chance to tackle obstacle courses full of explosive stunts and and deadly jumps, the full depth of which can be explored on developer Red Lynx's forums.
For your quick fix of info, here are the hot topics of conversation leading up to the game's August 12 release.
Read More - Trials HD: What's Hot and What's Not
Friday, July 10, 2009
05:54 PM - July 10, 2009. Posted by MMChrisS. Written by Jayson Young
It's not surprising that a non-EA football game is generating a bit of intrigue and hype prior to release, but what’s unusual about Black College Football Xperience is that it has garnered some attention for the wrong reasons. Some people are not interested in what the game has to offer on the field, but instead are interested in the title of the game.In two weeks, Operation Sports will be reviewing Nerjyzed Entertainment's Black College Football Xperience: The Doug Williams Edition for the Xbox 360. Rather than ignore this issue and let it cloud over our review, Operation Sports is here to tackle the issue head-on in this article, so that the review can be solely devoted to what’s coded into the game disc -- instead of what’s written on the game's box.
Read More - Black College Football - The Xperience: What's behind the Name?
Monday, July 6, 2009
12:40 PM - July 6, 2009. Posted by MMChrisS. Written by Jayson Young
Since the humble beginnings of Pong, tennis has always been a sport that has translated well to videogames.With Wimbledon now in the rear-view mirror, what better time than now to take a look at some of the past champions of videogame tennis, a genre that's almost as old as videogaming itself.
Here are five of the best offerings from the last five console cycles, starting with the era of the NES and Sega Master System.
Read More - Five Tennis Games You Should Have Played
Monday, June 22, 2009
06:56 PM - June 22, 2009. Posted by MMChrisS. Written by Jayson Young
For a franchise dedicated to such a niche sport, the Virtua Tennis series has an unusual history of making itself a showpiece for new gaming technology.Unfortunately, what Virtua Tennis 2009 ends up "showing off" isn’t the brilliance of Nintendo’s new MotionPlus peripheral, but the general incompetence of the series' new lone developer, Sumo Digital.
-Review written by Jayson Young
Read More - Virtua Tennis 2009 (Wii) Review
Friday, June 12, 2009
10:37 PM - June 12, 2009. Posted by MMChrisS. Written by Jayson Young
Under normal circumstances, tennis games wouldn't usually receive a whole lot of hype or attention from the mainstream media.Then again, most tennis games aren’t debuting alongside a new controller technology that’s supposed to revolutionize the way gamers can interact with the industry’s leading console.
Hence the roaring hype for EA’s Grand Slam Tennis, a game that both Nintendo and EA have christened as the ushering in of a new era in motion control.
Now that the finished product is finally in our hands, it's sad to have to report that Grand Slam Tennis fails to successfully deliver the promised one-to-one motion recognition. It's also sad to report that the game also comes with a number of frustrating inconsistencies that show how the Wii MotionPlus technology is not quite the startling revolution that was initially promised.
Read More - EA Sports Grand Slam Tennis Review
Thursday, May 21, 2009
01:04 PM - May 21, 2009. Posted by MMChrisS. Written by Jayson Young
It’s hard to believe that during the 15-plus years of success by the EA Sports brand only one tennis game has ever been released under the North American label: IMG International Tour Tennis for the Sega Genesis, which debuted in 1994 and received little fanfare and a lukewarm critical reception.This time around, while critical reception for Grand Slam Tennis will be delayed until the game actually comes out, the fanfare surrounding Grand Slam Tennis for the Nintendo Wii already outweighs the hype surrounding its forgotten ancestor on the Genesis.
In current times, the virtual tennis courts are not quite as crowded as they were back in the 16-bit days when developers such as Sega, Tengen, Codemasters, Ubisoft, Namco, and of course, Nintendo were trying their hand at the sport on the Super Nintendo and Genesis, but Grand Slam Tennis developer EA Canada still faces some tough competition from established brands like Virtua Tennis, Top Spin, Mario Tennis and even the more niche Smash Court Tennis series.
Read More - Grand Slam Tennis: What's Hot and What's Not
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
10:08 PM - May 12, 2009. Posted by MMChrisS. Written by Jayson Young
Longtime fans of the racing genre no doubt have some experience with Sega and its storehouse of legendary arcade racers. After all, there was the original OutRun cabinet that used to line the walls of Dairy Queens and Pizza Huts in the 1980s, the Daytona USA multi-cabinet grids that would rake in quarters at skating rinks and putt-putt golf courses, and the more niche Sega Rally games that eventually crept into the then-massive Chuck E. Cheese franchise. Simply put, the company's presence in the arcades over the last two decades has helped to create lasting memories for those who are old enough to recall a time when arcades had more to offer than an endless number of Dance Dance Revolution and Deer Hunter variants.
It came as no surprise, then, to see that OutRun Online Arcade, a port of Sega's most recent update to the classic arcade racer, quickly found its way to the top of the Xbox Live Arcade "most popular titles" list during the week of its April 15 release.
Read More - Outrun Online Arcade Review
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