AFL Challenge allows players to play through the entire season, through to the Grand Final. It features a team management system where players can be trained up in skills such as kicking, tackling and running. Sony states that this will allow strategic choices to be made as the player goes through the season by training up key players.
The game also features a quick match mode, available from the main menu as well as the season mode. Multiple camera angles are available to choose from both in the options menu and while playing the game. Camera angles range from close behind the player to wide zooms showing most of the stadium. Each player is fully animated, demonstrating if they are successful or not, kicking, sprinting, tackling, hand balling or marking. [2]
As part of the marketing campaign for AFL Challenge, Network Ten's program, Thursday Night Live, promoted the game and its sister title Rugby League Challenge, claiming it was the inspiration for an inter-league kicking competition.[3] TV advertisements promoting both Sony's new PSP model and AFL Challenge were run on Channel 10 during the first week of the finals season.[4] Asides from TV, AFL Challenge has also been advertised on the official AFL website, with a competition to win a PSP game pack including the game.[5] Elsewhere online, Sony's Australian PSP site is featuring a front page advertisement for this title.[6]
AFL Challenge was universally critically panned. GameSpot's Dan Chiappini called the game "an unrewarding bore", citing that "the experience is nothing more than shallow and unrewarding gameplay, technical issues, and horrible difficulty scaling."[7] He also noted its lack of multiplayer, a season mode, commentary, player numbers, and its two grounds, one being a small suburban ground, unfit for AFL football, and the other appearing to be modeled on the MCG. He gave the game a "bad" rating and a 3 out of 10. PALGN said "AFL Challenge is a dud of the game that not even an AFL fan would enjoy" and gave it a 1 out of 10.[8][9]
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challenge, sports, game, playstation, portable, based, game, developed, australian, games, developer, wicked, witch, software, published, entertainment, sony, computer, entertainment, games, fixture, based, 2009, season, features, official, teams, determined, . AFL Challenge is a sports game for the PlayStation Portable based on the AFL The game was developed by Australian games developer Wicked Witch Software and was published by Tru Blu Entertainment and Sony Computer Entertainment 1 The games fixture is based on the 2009 AFL season and features all official AFL teams and a pre determined best 22 players for each team whose positions cannot be changed AFL ChallengeDeveloper s Wicked Witch Software 1 Publisher s Tru Blu EntertainmentSony Computer EntertainmentSeriesAFLPlatform s PlayStation Portable PlayStation NetworkReleasePlayStation PortableAU 10 September 2009PlayStation NetworkAU 25 March 2010Genre s SportsMode s Single player Contents 1 Gameplay 2 Marketing 3 Reception 4 See also 5 External links 6 ReferencesGameplay editAFL Challenge allows players to play through the entire season through to the Grand Final It features a team management system where players can be trained up in skills such as kicking tackling and running Sony states that this will allow strategic choices to be made as the player goes through the season by training up key players The game also features a quick match mode available from the main menu as well as the season mode Multiple camera angles are available to choose from both in the options menu and while playing the game Camera angles range from close behind the player to wide zooms showing most of the stadium Each player is fully animated demonstrating if they are successful or not kicking sprinting tackling hand balling or marking 2 nbsp Fremantle vs Sydney Swans screenshotMarketing editAs part of the marketing campaign for AFL Challenge Network Ten s program Thursday Night Live promoted the game and its sister title Rugby League Challenge claiming it was the inspiration for an inter league kicking competition 3 TV advertisements promoting both Sony s new PSP model and AFL Challenge were run on Channel 10 during the first week of the finals season 4 Asides from TV AFL Challenge has also been advertised on the official AFL website with a competition to win a PSP game pack including the game 5 Elsewhere online Sony s Australian PSP site is featuring a front page advertisement for this title 6 nbsp Western Bulldogs vs St Kilda screenshotReception editAFL Challenge was universally critically panned GameSpot s Dan Chiappini called the game an unrewarding bore citing that the experience is nothing more than shallow and unrewarding gameplay technical issues and horrible difficulty scaling 7 He also noted its lack of multiplayer a season mode commentary player numbers and its two grounds one being a small suburban ground unfit for AFL football and the other appearing to be modeled on the MCG He gave the game a bad rating and a 3 out of 10 PALGN said AFL Challenge is a dud of the game that not even an AFL fan would enjoy and gave it a 1 out of 10 8 9 See also editRugby League Challenge AFL Mascot Manor Wicked Witch SoftwareExternal links editAFL Challenge at Wicked Witch Software com au AFL Challenge at Sony Computer Entertainment comReferences edit a b AFL and NRL Games Coming To PSP IGN 6 May 2009 Archived from the original on 9 May 2009 Retrieved 7 May 2009 Playstation Australia Archived from the original on 17 September 2009 Retrieved 1 September 2009 Network Ten Retrieved 7 September 2009 AFL Challenge commercial YouTube Archived from the original on 20 December 2021 Retrieved 7 September 2009 AFL website competition Archived from the original on 1 October 2009 Retrieved 8 September 2009 Sony PSP Australia Archived from the original on 14 September 2009 Retrieved 10 September 2009 AFL Challenge Review AFL Challenge Metacritic AFL Challenge Review Archived from the original on 2 September 2012 Retrieved 2015 06 06 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title AFL Challenge amp oldid 1183018631, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
