Saw the first trailer for NCAA 14, which will be using an iterated version of the same gameplay engine that Madden 13 used. Will be very interesting to see how it plays out, but I'll wait to see if they fixed the niggles this time around.
And apparently the new big mode in NCAA 14 will be Ultimate Team mode, just like the modes in FIFA, Madden and NHL. It's going to be interesting to see how they do this, because the big selling point of these other games having Ultimate Team is building a team out of real players, which of course, is verboten in NCAA titles (even without the threat of the billion dollar lawsuit about using college athlete's likeness in games that's currently running)
It's a shame to see LucasArts shutdown the games division. It's safe to say the developer never hit the heights that they hit in the 80's and 90's (Sam&Max, Maniac Mansion, Day of the Tentacle, the X-Wing/Tie Fighter series, etcetera), but still, it hurts to see the game shut down, not just for games now we'll never see (the rumored Star Wars Battlefront sequel, and the at one point heavily hyped Star Wars 1313), but for the fact that it's likely what will be replacing them will be typical licensed shovelware.
Glad to see that Bioshock Infinite is getting a bunch of top notch reviews. While I've been very vocal about the danger that I see with so many big budget big name titles needing to be monster hits just to break even, it looks like this game is in a good spot so far.
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