GAA game: screeshots, reactions, etc

monument

On Games Toaster, or direct links to the shots...

http://gamestoaster.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/gff_armagh_dublin_clones_3.jpg
http://gamestoaster.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/gff_mayo_kerry_croke_1.jpg
http://gamestoaster.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/gff_croke_01_2.jpg

Basq

Shame they don't look like screenshots from in-game footage!

aidan_walsh

Pff. Hardly realistic. All those pitches are perfectly level... Where are the dips, the ditches, and the hillsides?

So anyone know when we can expect GAA Manager to be released?

"This player is unavailable for selection as he has a Bank of Ireland training course to attend on matchday".

RobertFoster

Not a big turn out at the Mayo Kerry match...

jesus_thats_gre

They are probably development pictures and will be toned down alot for the PS2.

-oRnein9-

I read in the Independent today that the tv add for the game mistakingly has a Mayo player scoring a goal on the mayo keeper. Very smart!

wba88

any1 know where to download the ad?

WarZoneBrother

-oRnein9- wrote:

I read in the Independent today that the tv add for the game mistakingly has a Mayo player scoring a goal on the mayo keeper. Very smart!

lmfao

Jammer

Reminds me of Fifa '97, looks wise

projectmayhem

looks horrendous.

iregk

aidan_walsh wrote:

So anyone know when we can expect GAA Manager to be released?

"This player is unavailable for selection as he has a Bank of Ireland training course to attend on matchday".

Love it Aidan, and all too true... in your budget would you have the option to pay travel expenses as well or?

looks a bit crap in my opinion. is this one from elasticated arts or whos making?

rainbow kirby

Looks fugly. But you just know it's gonna sell like crazy.

whiskeyman

iregk wrote:

is this one from elasticated arts or whos making?

Nope... done by this crowd - IR Gurus

IR Gurus blurb wrote:

IR Gurus is unquestionably one of Australia's most successful game development studios. Established in 1996, IR Gurus originally specialized in equestrian and stadium sports games, creating the hugely successful Saddle Club games and securing exclusive development rights for the lucrative Australian Football League AFL license.

Gaelic Games Football is based on their AFL series - here's a review of their latest incarnation.

Dont expect it to look good (FIFA style), but if the gameplay is anyway decent, it'll be well worth it.
I can see it easily topping the charts over the Christmas period.

monument

wba88 wrote:

any1 know where to download the ad?

http://www.sumea.com.au/simagesmisc/ps2gaaad.mpeg

K.O.Kiki

Stupid patriotism... gonna steal sales from properly developed games...
Also, how badly is the PS2 gonna chug with 30 players on-field?
Unless they turn the res waaaay down, I can't Imagine it...
And what about buttons -- are there separate buttons for tap/bounce?

Oh, this is gonna be awful...

Royale with Cheese

K.O.Kiki wrote:

Stupid patriotism... gonna steal sales from properly developed games...
Also, how badly is the PS2 gonna chug with 30 players on-field?
Unless they turn the res waaaay down, I can't Imagine it...
And what about buttons -- are there separate buttons for tap/bounce?

Oh, this is gonna be awful...

Rugby games have 30 players on the field and they run fine.

jonnybadd

You have to love the ad, "Get yisser flags". Classic

amp

K.O.Kiki wrote:

Stupid patriotism... gonna steal sales from properly developed games...
Also, how badly is the PS2 gonna chug with 30 players on-field?
Unless they turn the res waaaay down, I can't Imagine it...
And what about buttons -- are there separate buttons for tap/bounce?

Oh, this is gonna be awful...

You seem to have absolutely no idea what you're talking about, other than you don't like GAA.

tHE vAGGABOND

This is the first ever GAA game and its being made by a small company. You cant expect the earth, moon and stars right away, first time..

Give them a break! Just buy the game, and give it a lash. Then they can make it bigger and better for next time.

The best thing for all irish sports and games fans is if this game takes off, and it then gave a shot in the arm to the non-existant games industry

RE*AC*TOR

tHE vAGGABOND wrote:

This is the first ever GAA game and its being made by a small company. You cant expect the earth, moon and stars right away, first time..

Give them a break! Just buy the game, and give it a lash. Then they can make it bigger and better for next time.

The best thing for all irish sports and games fans is if this game takes off, and it then gave a shot in the arm to the non-existant games industry

So what your saying is - even if this game is rubbish we should take pity on the deveopers and give them our hard earned cash. Did you ever consider working for Martin Cullen?

monument

"Then they can make it bigger and better for next time."

That's quite close to what the head of SCE Ireland said to me, as in this is only the start.

whiskeyman

tHE vAGGABOND wrote:

and it then gave a shot in the arm to the non-existant games industry

You do realise its an Australian company developing this?
I dont see how it could help the Irish games industry...

tHE vAGGABOND

I do know this is an aussie company [Im an aussie rules fan, and therefore I have their last few AFL games].

My point is that there is no irish games industry, none. Maybe this will kick some people up the arse into thinking "we can do that better" and have a go at making a better version. Maybe it will kick the government into action realising that such a game should have been made in Ireland not 20,000 miles away and have a grant program for irish games companies etc etc -> give the industry in ireland a shot in the arm?

Until that point where you have several GAA games at some point in the future, something is better than nothing IMHO. Im not a GAA fan, but from a rugby POV we had 1 or 2 bad games from EA [which I bought] before the current Rugby game which is somewhat playable.

Im sure GAA fans would rather play a GAA game, than just sit there and slag it off. If you dont buy it, they wont make another one. Thats a sad fact of business.

Modern games are bloody complicated and expensive to make, and you cant expect Fifa/Pro Evo style games from small companies as a first effort. If nothing else, fifa and pro evo have litterally hundreds of people working on their games, where this GAA game will have 20 or so. If it sells well, maybe it will be 30 or 40 working on it next year, so it should be that bit better etc etc

iregk

Also lets remember, Fifa is now in its 12th year of evolution. Yes, Fifa Internation Soccer appeared in 1993! So your not going to get gameplay, looks and everyting first time out to the standard of a game thats been around since footballs had laces!

Retr0gamer

Thought the old Fifas were great. They went downhill with the 3D versions of 97 and have been recovering ever since.

projectmayhem

tHE vAGGABOND wrote:

My point is that there is no irish games industry, none. Maybe this will kick some people up the arse into thinking "we can do that better" and have a go at making a better version. Maybe it will kick the government into action realising that such a game should have been made in Ireland not 20,000 miles away and have a grant program for irish games companies etc etc -> give the industry in ireland a shot in the arm?

Modern games are bloody complicated and expensive to make, and you cant expect Fifa/Pro Evo style games from small companies as a first effort. If nothing else, fifa and pro evo have litterally hundreds of people working on their games, where this GAA game will have 20 or so. If it sells well, maybe it will be 30 or 40 working on it next year, so it should be that bit better etc etc

havok is one of the largest games companies in the industry. and it's in dublin. there are a few other companies. like one in donegal making some FPS effort (looks decent), as well as the Shiny Entertainment bloke being from NI, and given the bedroom modders in this country and the introduction of games to colleges (DIT comp sci and maynooth i think have them), in a few years we could see a massive emergance of games companies here.

you're right about the GAA game. wasn't going to be spot on first time. but that's dismal. they could have bought the pro evo engine from 2 years ago at a bargain basement price and built on that at least.

Concannon7

Lads, why do ye think its going to be a crap game because the graphics dont like great? First of all the graphics dont look bad, I'm quite impressed with them actually. I expected a lot worse. Remember when ISS was first out and when Pro Evolution came along as well? The graphics were no where near as good as Fifa but the gameplay was ten times better. The fact is you cant look at pictures of a game and judge it on that alone. All for we know the gameplay could be great.

Either way good or bad I cant wit for it to come out. I have never looked forward to the release if a game as much as this one.

Setun

The graphics more than likely will be toned down a bit, I'm expecting EA rugby standards or thereabouts. I hope the game does well though, but I can't see it being very playable.

Anyone know what platforms it's coming out on?

monument

Only on PlayStation 2.

whiskeyman

Galway_mad_bhoy wrote:

Lads, why do ye think its going to be a crap game because the graphics dont like great? First of all the graphics dont look bad, I'm quite impressed with them actually. I expected a lot worse. Remember when ISS was first out and when Pro Evolution came along as well? The graphics were no where near as good as Fifa but the gameplay was ten times better. The fact is you cant look at pictures of a game and judge it on that alone. All for we know the gameplay could be great.

Either way good or bad I cant wit for it to come out. I have never looked forward to the release if a game as much as this one.

You've hit the nail on the head here.
Graphics always "look" great, and do a lot for media hype.
Remember Max Payne? Great looking... Matrix style cameras.... but it was hopeless to play!!
THe same could be said for "The Getaway" series.... way too much hype on looks and playability was rubbish.
If the gameplay / playability fails (no matter what the graphics look like).... the game is doomed.
Anyone who's played games for years on C64 / Spectrums / Amigas etc... knows only too well how important gameplay is... we sure didnt play for graphics back then
Just look at the success of Tetris, Snake, Worms, Sim City, the sims... lots of games where playability ranks far higher over graphics.

If this game provides the thrills and spills of letting you beat your mates county in the all Ireland... and letting you enjoy playing it over and over, it's a winner.... and I think that's going to be the way its heading.

Setun

monument wrote:

Only on PlayStation 2.

Yarr.

Wouldn't have got it anyway.

Greenbean

What vagga said. It all helps.

they could have bought the pro evo engine from 2 years ago at a bargain basement price and built on that at least.

I highly doubt it. While this may seem a practical thing to do, it's almost certainly a false economy, given IR Guru's already having an engine and know-how from their AFL games (which are probably closer to GAA than Soccer). Nevermind that Konami are very unlikely to be willing to sell a PES engine of any sort. They have mostly likely not engineered the code this way nor have they shown any interest or focus in selling/marketing/developing engines before.

monument

whiskeyman wrote:

Remember Max Payne? Great looking... Matrix style cameras.... but it was hopeless to play!!

I remember Max Payne, but just not the way you do.

tHE vAGGABOND

yea, that first max payne game won **** loads of game of the year awards that year..

Its problem was that it was too 'linear' but what it did, it did very well

leitrim might win sam in it!we dont have a hope in real life:) oh yeah kiltubrid to win connacht club final!

oblian

Hey all been lurkin for awhile first time posting.Anyway i just wanted to warn ppl that the new GAA game is ****.Yep ****.Did i mention its ****???i got it 3 days before the release date and have played it twice since.If you dont wanna take my word for it rent it first to try it before you buy it.Just wanted to warn ppl so they dont make the same mistake

whiskeyman

oblian wrote:

Hey all been lurkin for awhile first time posting.Anyway i just wanted to warn ppl that the new GAA game is ****.Yep ****.Did i mention its ****???i got it 3 days before the release date and have played it twice since.If you dont wanna take my word for it rent it first to try it before you buy it.Just wanted to warn ppl so they dont make the same mistake

Obviously someone not happy they aint getting any royalties...
I think we'll make up our own minds after reading more in-depth reviews and playing a demo / renting it etc...

oblian

whiskeyman wrote:

Obviously someone not happy they aint getting any royalties...

ok maybe i should point out i am a uni student and have no ties to the GAA.However i wont be shocked when i see alot of people who dislike the game too.

whiskeyman

oblian wrote:

ok maybe i should point out i am a uni student and have no ties to the GAA.However i wont be shocked when i see alot of people who dislike the game too.

at least give us reasons why you think its so poor.
Break it down into the usuals:
Sound
Gameplay
Value for money
Graphics
etc...

Dont go around saying something without backing it up.

oblian

apologies,as i said its my first time posting.

ok

Gameplay (or lack thereof) is very poor, the controls are not very responsive and feel like there should have been alot more effort put into them.Tackling for example,you can tackle 50 times and not win the ball once and if you sprint for more then 2 seconds you get penalised,shooting is a joke and the keeper is on auto pilot half the times and is all over the shop!

Graphics:look half as good as they should.Players and stadia look more like they are still wire based graphics rather then properly filled out models and look real blocky

Value for money:do not be surprised to see alot of copies of this game going back to the shops and ending up in the bargain bin

There may be gamers who like it but for those who have been waiting on this game they are gonna be let down.Again just my opinion

danniemcq

Just outta vuriousity where did you get it before the release date???

oblian

im a computer technician and have a good few "friends" :cool: actually the guy is coming to collect the game now im sending it back

Prior Of Taize

i understand that you hate it but seriously dont waste our time and your own posting a thread like this.

oblian

its not just that i hate it i wanted to let others know so they didnt waste their money on it!!

danniemcq

so it wasn't a fully offical copy then...

Anima

Could be a beta release.

oblian

it is a fully official full copy

Creamy Goodness

i was playing it in GAME on dawson street today and i have to echo what oblian said.

it's dirt the controls are unresponsive and the animations are wooden

Jazzy

yeah, i was looking at the back of the box the other day and the graphics looked like they belong on the PS1, not the dying days of the generation above it. tis a shame they made such a cruddy game out of it. not the biggest GAA fan myself but it would have been nice to have a good GAA game... if not only to keep all ye boggers amused

johnny_ultimate

I admit Im not a GAA fan and all I've seen of it is a video in gamestop but I have to say the graphics are of PS1 quality as Cremo said. Dunno what the gameplay's like but considering its the first attempt at a GAA game id say there'll be a couple of flaws at least. since it's aimed at such a tiny market (it won't sell to anyone but GAA fans in Ireland) I'd assume the development budgets were very small indeed...

tim3115

I know it's not out till tomorrow, but did anyone play it yet by chance?