2009/08/14

NCAA Football 2010 is a Slight Improvement Over the Last Game

The game NCAA Football 2010 is hitting the shelves on July and we are dying to know what new features they have added to this great game. There has been a lot of talk on online forums and blogs about the new features. Today, we dive into the virtual crowds to see if NCAA Football 2010 is truly, a college football fans Madden.

This is a football simulation game in which you can select teams from real NCAA conferences, create and use the plays, and manage recruiting and development of players. Football games are presented with extensive player stats, real college fight songs, and voice commentary from professional broadcasters. The game is due out in July so the game itself looks a whole lot more polished than previous installments. A main contributor to the hype has been the presence of NCAA developers answering questions in the forums. This great involvement by the game developers has been a pleasant surprise and the response by community members has been astounding.

A lot of game play tweaks have been made, though everything else looks kinda similar, which kinda stinks, would have liked them to build it up some. The release of NCAA Football 2010 will bring perhaps much fun for gamers, and it also will bring the VSCS. It is a 10 day tracker, where registered users play each other and report the results of their games. If they lowered the download price say 10 or 15 bucks I'm sure more people would download it if they can get it cheaper that way and the company could use the cheaper game cost against other companies in the industry like Sony and Nintendo.

I saw that you'll get a code to download 12 teams with the game, but if you pre-order it you'll get a code for 25 teams. I have it pre-ordered, however I won't be downloading 25 teams. All college football fans will have an opportunity to play in the season showdowns, as the credits not only accumulate in-game but players can also earn credits for their school via new web-based games. Thousands of college football fans around the country will be on a mission to prove their school is number one with NCAA Football 10's Season Showdown. I think EA needs to make sports games that are completely over the top. Half of the competition is skill, the other half is who can get the best genetic enhancing steroids.

I'm going to need a lot of data, not just on returning players and top teams, but on new players. I figured I'd get the ball rolling so I can create at least four teams before things get busy with real high school football in a few weeks. I would assume that the price of the game would be cheaper to buy online in the long run rather than buying the disc in the retail store due to manufacturing costs and store profit. From all new risk-reward strategic game play options to the first adaptive A.I, the game is an improvement from the last installment of NCAA Football.

2009/08/13

Review of Archos9 Game

Archos9 is the newest and most exciting of the increasingly popular Windows Tablets. The first thing that catches a person's eye upon sighting the new Archos9 and even before getting to use it is its remarkably cute design. The tablet's screen is only 9 inches, and it would seem that it is from this fact that its gets the '9' part of its 'Archos9' name.

Archos9's small size, however, belies a remarkable immensity of the computing power. Indeed, its makers tout it as a 'tablet-sized netbook' which is to say that it offers the computing power of a netbook while still maintaining the economy of size (and weight) which is characteristic of tablets.

Going beyond the cute exteriors and getting inside the gadget, one is met by a powerful 1.2 GHz processor - which only goes a long way to show how far the evolution of computer power has come, from a time when even the best of building-filling mainframe computer could not offer this level of computing power, to a point where through devices like the Archos9, you can actually fit 1.2 Giga Hertz of computing power into your pocket! To give you (as the user) this computing power, the Archos9 relies on an Atom Z515 processor.

Beyond what can be described as remarkable processor power, Archos9 also offers you as the user immense storage space, 80 Giga Bytes of it to be precise. To even the most extravagant of users, this is likely to be more than enough storage space, even when you factor in the space consumed by the operating system and applications stored in the tablet. And for users who will only be using the tablet to access applications over the Internet (an increasingly popular model for tablet and netbook users), then the 80 GB offered by Archos9 is likely to be more than one can find anything to do with, even with the heaviest of multimedia files.

To make the Internet access possible even when the Archos9 user is on the move, the tablet comes with full Bluetooth functionality, a feature that is becoming increasingly indispensable in gadgets of this type. And to 'capture stuff from the air' for you, Archos9 comes with Dual antennas (of the increasingly popular DVB-T variety), which might not seem like much until you attempt to use a tablet without this particular feature (of an antenna) or one whose antennae reception is weak.

To maximize of Archos9's full computing power, ensure that you are running Windows Version 7 on it (which it should come with anyway, since that is meant to be the default operating system on it).

Contrary to what one might first imagine, Archos9 is not all that harsh on your pocket, and this is something that you should get for as low a figure as 650 dollars if you are in the United States, which works out to about 450 Euros if you are in Europe (where the tablet should be available by the end of the third quarter of the year 2009).

Our take is that the Archos9 tablet makes for a great buy, especially if you are keen to get massive computing power crammed in an amazingly small and neat package.

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