Every Sunday, we will get you caught up on the sports gaming news you might have missed, during the busy week. This week it’s all about Madden 23 franchise mode, MLB The Show 22, skate. and more.
Sports Gaming News
- F1 22 Patch 1.05 Address Some Gameplay Issues, Reduces ICE Wear Rate, Improves VR & More – Patch Notes
- FIFA 22 Patch 14 Features Some Gameplay Changes – Available For All Platforms – Patch Notes
- Battle Royale Season 5 – 2nd Half Heroes Yu Darvish, Milestone Cedric Mullins
- Diamond Dynasty – Headliners Set 30 Ryan Howard, New Event
- SBK 22 Gameplay Video
- MLB The Show 22 Patch #12 Available Today – Patch Notes
- F1 Manager 2022 Video Runs Through the Process of Driver Face Scans, Behaviors, Driving Style & More
- EA’s Skate Will Be Free-to-Play with Cross-Play, Cross-Progression, Microtransactions & More
- MLB The Show 22 Trial Available For Nintendo Switch Online Members Through July 21
- Madden NFL 23 Franchise Mode Details Revealed – Scouting, Free Agency, Trade Logic, Draft Classes & Much More
- F1 22 Developers Reveal Top Community Issues and Upcoming Fixes – Cross-Play & More Tracks Coming Later This Year
- Madden NFL 23 Player Ratings Reveal Starts on July 18
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About a month ago I gave my thoughts on the Madden 23 beta. My main takeaway was that I liked most things about the new gameplay features but needed to see what changes EA would make with the popular single-player game modes like Connected Franchise and Face of the Franchise in Madden 23before making any wild claims. I won’t be talking about Connected Franchise in this article because Kevin did so in his own beta impressions piece. However, I will be digging into Face of the Franchise. And like my time with the beta overall, I came away relatively impressed.
The first thing you’ll notice when firing up Face of the Franchise this season is that you are no longer a young, promising rookie. Instead, this year’s story focuses on you, a fifth-year NFL veteran working hard to prove he belongs in the league. The thought process behind this is to streamline your player’s journey to the NFL, which is ultimately what most people care about most. My only gripe with this is that it would be nice to have the option to start as a rookie, but I understand that until EA gets this game mode down and the gameplay refined, there are other areas of the game for them to focus on right now.
In part one, I covered the basics of Dream Team and how to build a team. In part two, I’ll cover the different ways to play and actually compete within eFootball 2022‘s Dream Team mode.
Within Dream Team there are numerous ways to play versus the offline CPU (AI) or player versus player (PvP). Both options have their pros and cons and offer various rewards via objectives depending on the nature of the competition — and for those who play against the AI, varying degrees of rewards based on the level of your AI (professional, top player, and so on). Before we go into these various modes/challenges, it’s important to understand what a Season is.
Any trip to the Park in NBA 2K22 to hoop with and against other people online brings with it the tantalizing possibility that you’ll find a couple of good teammates and quickly develop the kind of chemistry that will propel you to an impressive winning streak. For a lot of solo players like myself though, the reality is far different than the vision of basketball utopia they might have in mind when they decide to spend some time there.
The truth of the matter is that participating in Park games means accepting that you’re bound to experience some extremely frustrating moments. Some of these will likely occur because of the poor performance of you or a teammate, but others will arise as a result of Park basketball having its own set of idiosyncrasies that are hard to rationalize at times. Unlike the (slightly) more realistic action in the Rec, the Park’s arcade style can be both baffling and infuriating in equal measure in the way that success or failure can hinge on overpowered badges and insane animations.
If you’re anything like me, the racing genre is unmatched in the world of video games. Sure, racing fans have seen a lot and dealt with even more, from the highest of highs to the soul-crushing lowest of lows with specific titles over the years. Regardless, once racing is in your blood, it is almost impossible to leave the sport behind. Although we are blessed right now with an extremely healthy catalog of amazing titles right now, there is still room for improvement, and that brings me to one of last year’s biggest disappointments: NASCAR 21: Ignition.
I had such high hopes for the initial release of this series, knowing the type of development talent that had been assembled under one roof at Motorsport Games. It was (and is) enough talent and experience to get me excited that maybe, finally, this was our time. The time that NASCAR fans could feel like their favorite sport was going to be handled with the precision and care that it deserved. And yet, here we are again licking our wounds and wondering when, or better yet, if it will ever be “our time” when it comes to NASCAR racing on consoles.
In the last content update before the All-Star Game deluge, we are getting the seal broken on a 99 overall outside of a collection reward. Chase Set 3 delivers Milestone Nolan Ryan to DD. SDS also made ratings changes, delivered Week 2 of Topps Now July, and gave us Headliners Set 31 Awards John Smoltz. Let’s get to it.
At the top end of things, it was a lot of downgrades for many top players in DD. This includes Judge, Trout, Goldschmidt, Betts, Buxton, Acuna Jr.,Yordan Alvarez, Hader, and Jose Ramirez. Ohtani, Burnes, and Scherzer were the only 90+ overalls to get buffs.
This game will focus on one enormous fictional city called San Vansterdam, which Full Circle refers to as the sister city to San Vanelona. Unfortunately, not a lot was available to see in yesterday’s board meeting. Still, after listening to the developers talk, it sounds like this will be an ever-evolving open world that allows gamers to discover new things early and often. They want skate. to be more than just a single-player journey that ends after you beat the game.
One way to accomplish this is with one of the most fantastic new additions to the game: CollaboZones.
CollaboZones are new to skate. and have been one of the most popular areas for those fortunate enough to test the game. These CollaboZones are areas on the map that the developers defined as “wild cooperative building areas where players can allow their imagination to run wild.” These are constantly changing, but one example we were shown was gamers collaborating to create a mega-ramp from the top of one rooftop to the next. Another showed skaters bailing from that same rooftop, trying to get their lifeless bodies through giant rings in the sky. Jumping has also been added to the game and may help players reach places they only dreamed of in the past.
