Quick Look: Field Goal Frenzy for iPhone
I’ll be the first to admit that I’m not a sports fan, and even when I acknowledge sports, football is far from my favorite. Of course, it doesn’t help any that my last “fond” memory of playing football involved me intercepting a pass, followed by me getting tackled by a tree. So why do I play computerized sports games? Probably mostly because I can, or at least better than I can play their real life counterparts. These mini-games are especially intriguing, because they theoretically take the best parts of the game and allow you to partake without all the hassle that comes in between. Such is the case with 3 Point Hoops Basketball. Unfortunately, I’m not sure I’m feelin’ the same kind of love for Field Goal Frenzy.
Kick That Goal
As the name implies, your task is to kick field goals. The game is comprised of two modes: practice and classic. Practice simply allows you to attempt field goals one at a time from any position (left, right or center) and from any distance between 30 and 60 yards (in 5 yard increments). In classic mode you must kick once from each position at each of the distance markers. Once you’ve missed 5 kicks the game is over. You use a swiping motion to kick the ball, and then you can tilt the device left and right to influence the ball’s flight. It almost always seemed to me like tilting the device either had too much influence or none at all, which got to be frustrating at times. The worst part, however, was that after a couple of rounds of kicking I really didn’t have a desire to play the game any more.
The graphics are pretty decent. All the foreground elements look good enough – your player, the ball the goalpost. The referees were just a bit stiff, however. The audience seems to be comprised of the same blurry semi-photo realistic slightly animated folks that populated that stands in 3 Point Hoops Basketball. That’s fine, however, because that effect seems to work well for these games. I did like the touch of camera flashes going off when you scored a goal. The sounds are pretty much what you’d expect, from the thump of kicking the ball to the roar of the crowd when you scored a goal. The music was okay, but I didn’t like it as much as the tunes from 3 Point Hoops Basketball.
Overall, I was not very impressed with Field Goal Frenzy. It’s quite possible it’s a solid game as far as field goal kicking mini-games are concerned, and there are certainly some nice production values in the aesthetics department, but the game play just never really caught my attention. As a result I regretfully can’t recommend this game.
Final Verdict: Not Recommended
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April 25th, 2012 at 5:43 AM
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