MMGN: AFL Live is a great first effort from Big Ant Studios and the best AFL game to date. It will satisfy the cravings of any virtual AFL fan, and have them pondering why on earth they ever played the garbage that came before it. The lack of a career mode will hurt longevity and it’s full of problems that were to be expected. There are too many bugs and glitches for a full price game and the whole package is very rough around the edges. The commentary and audio is about as enjoyable as attending your own funeral and the menus are too confusing for the lack of information. Having said all that, the fast-pace basic gameplay is great and has laid the foundations for future AFL games. Be aware of the flaws, but recommended to anyone who has been desperately awaiting an AFL game for the past four years.
MMGN: The AFL Live: Game of the Year Edition DLC and retail release brings the best AFL game to date into 2012. It includes GWS, its new stadium and all of the current teams, which is all that was required to continue enjoying AFL Live during the current season. AFL fans should be satisfied; although, it looks like we’re going to have to wait until the next full release, should it happen, to fix some of the lingering problems and for that highly anticipated career mode.
AFL LIVE marks (pun intended) the first time in 5 years fans can grab a controller and enjoy some armchair Aussie rules action. Released by Tru Blu Entertainment, AFL LIVE features all the teams, most of the players, and a fair few real life venues. Was it worth the wait?
Australian Gamer writes: "AFL Live is almost like watching the real thing. It’s fast paced, action packed and you have no control over any of it. With no tutorial, horrible instructions and unnecessarily complicated control scheme, AFL Live fails to live up to what should’ve been a revival of AFL games. Plenty of people will defend the fact that these local games don’t have the budget of the big EA titles, and they’d be right. Unfortunately, the problems with AFL Live have almost nothing to do with the production values, and everything to do with just being poorly designed."
