The official spin-off of the smash hit Retro Bowl takes you back to the old-school. If you thought managing a pro team was a challenge - you've seen nothing yet! Make a name for yourself as a winning head coach for one of 250 college teams. Manage tight budgets and encourage your hotheaded young players to keep their eye on the ball when they're surrounded by the temptations and distractions of college life. Can you tell the difference between the next pro football superstar and the party animal who doesn't know when to quit? Can you foster their talents and help them make the draft? Can you turn your school into the greatest football college of all time?
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I'm pretty sure in my review of the original Retro Bowl I talked about how outside of Madden one of my most formative football game memories was buying Techmo Bowl on virtual console for $5 and playing 100's of hours of it alone. And despite the graphics I would craft these narratives in my head about my team and the players and it made me so creative by letting my imagination run wild. Well this has that same magic. Upon starting my original thought was. Why do I need a college version of this game, I trust the dev's but why this. And I got it. The journey of getting a college team from the slums to D1 champions is exhilarating. I could go on about how when I became coach of Rutgers we had nothing but a solid 3 star WR and using all my scholarship recruitment fund I got a 5 star RB to anchor my team and lead us to an undefeated National Championship and how my team evolved year over year. And once we lost star players how the younger guys stepped up and made plays when they needed to and evolved. How I could HEAR the fans chanting for players meanwhile it was silent. My imagination ran wild just like it did when I was 10 playing Techmo Bowl. Something magical about this game.
Retro Bowl is already awesome enough, this game has a few different mechanics for managing your players but the gameplay is the same. It's just nice to have the option to choose to play as your favorite FBS or FCS school (or, well, their store-brand version). Super fun, glad it exists, need a full PS5 CFB game in my life though (c'mon, 2024)!
GO CLEMSON WOOOOOOOOO
A wise man (Cardale Jones) once said- “Why should we have to go to class if we came here to play FOOTBALL, we ain’t come to play SCHOOL, classes are POINTLESS.”
really fun! i wouldn't say there's much different here compared to the original, managing your team is a bit more interesting/has a lot more trouble to get into so it's a bit more challenging. gameplay is pretty much identical to the original which was solid! no defense still can be a bit of a bummer but it's all solid stuff.