#Sports Games
#Sports Games
By: David (@friendshipguy_)
I don’t understand the appeal of EA’s monolithic sports franchises. I mean, I get it, but at the same time, I don’t get it. Sports games are typically rehashed every year with a few embellishments and updates to the physics engines, or in some cases a full blown campaign is added to supplement the usual fare that comes with what one might expect with a sports game, but there’s a special place in my heart for games like Everybody’s Golf.
Space (Jam) Camp is a series about what happens you attempt to learn how to play one of the most complex sports games made without knowing anything about basketball.
A while ago I decided that I’m going to play a sports game. In an effort to have a broader knowledge of the medium, I’ve been expanding the scope of the games I’ve been playing, and reading up on games that I never intend to play. The NBA 2K series is one of the most popular, dominating the charts and being one of the few sports titles not crushing the opposition through Electronic Art’s near monopoly on the genre. (It’s also one of the most complex, with an insane amount of context sensitive Isomotion™ moves to pull off). So with that knowledge, I promptly went over to my local game store and picked up a copy of NBA2K11 (and a bullet hell SHMUP by Cave).
Love - 60 is a series about tennis videogames.
By Omar (@siegarettes)
For whatever reason, I love tennis videogames. I don’t play or watch the sport in real life, and I only became interested in it after playing Mario Tennis 64 as a kid. Since then I’ve gone on to spend a lot of with a virtual racket and ball.
Among its contemporaries, the Virtua Tennis series is probably the quintessential modern tennis game. Originally developed for arcades, it’s one of the more accessible games in the genre.