Draft Day Sports: College Football 2019

Updated review: TLDR; trash. turn back now. I still can't recommend this game after a few hundred hours poking around with it. I've learned how to dodge some of the issues, but the game is truly fundamentally broken. Here's the rundown... 1. Game simulator * The game sim which lets you coach your team is really terribly designed, and intensely frustrating. You can make a custom playbook, but guess what? You have to choose the playbook, then the formation, then the play if you want to do use it. You have to do this on every. single. play. This is a common theme for this game, the interface is TERRIBLE. It's as if they tried to make it as annoying as possible. * The players are absolutely idiots. Complete a pass, and expect that teammate next to you to throw a block? Nope. Call a play to the slot and the slot isn't covered before or after the snap ... throw it to the guy that's double covered! I tried this stuff out with 100 intelligence, and it makes no difference. * Can ...

Im a huge sim fan and a friend told me about the basketball series that lets you export draft classes from the college version to the pro version. This offers the same not to mention a great recruiting system unlike Bowl Bound and a pretty detailed menu layout also. Heavily enjoying so far.

Buggy and overpriced. Avoid.

EA...please bring back college football.

I really want to give this game a good ranking because it really is good. That said, there are a few things that make me a bit frustrated. 1. It feels like you are set up to lose. You might be winning by quite a bit or generally be playing great football but at some point things fall apart and no matter how good or how bad the other team is you suddenly cant do anything right, the other teams players are unrealistically fast and they can overcome any deficit. It isnt realistic to have that happen so often. 2. Ive been playing this game, the previous one, and the pro football one and I have never seen the ball get thrown to the other team when there wasnt a player from my team anywhere close to him. Im not just mad because its frustrating to lose. Ive waited a couple years to say anything. Again, this is one of the better sims out there but its ruined by these issues. I dont want to hear the challenging reasoning because there is a difference between challenging and rediculous.

I love that someone is attempting to create these types of games, but the UI and functionality in this is brutal. I was hoping for a slightly souped up, football version of MyBasketballGM, which is a free web based game but these folks should take a page out of their book. Simplifying and streamlining the core mechanics would go a long way and I'll keep an eye on future versions hoping for improvements

There isn't a tutorial of any kind. No way of seeing if your changes have effects, and recruiting seems to be based only on reputation and nothing else. I've played excellent sims before, but this one isn't one of them. Save your money, don't buy this.

If you're a college football fan, and more specifically a fan of sport management/simulation games (in a similar vein to that of football manager) then you probably know by now that your options are limited. DDS: College Football has a surprising amount of intricacy to the game simulations, it is just a shame that no real tutorial exists in game or online to clearly explain the importance of attributes per position, player type per strategy, etc. This means a lot of the game is left to guess work, and whilst it is rewarding once you do crack the ideal strategy, it is still almost impossible to put your finger explicitly on why it has worked. The recruiting system is sufficient, but very cluttered. If the menu/layout was streamlined to reduce the amount of on-screen text then it would resolve most of the navigation problems of recruiting. The ability to see the plays in DDS is one of the game's primary selling points, and adds a little more visual realism to the simulation. Whilst ...

The replay graphics need work - they are really basic X & O type represenations, and the UI is great in places, not so great in others, but overall DDS CF19 does a good job of letting you design and call plays and simulate recruiting and a college football season, so thunbs up for me with plenty of room for improvement in future versions.

If you enjoy the behinds the scenes aspect of running a football team this does the trick. Not perfect but does the job.