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by Mmmmsnouts

This game doesn't hold a candle to the pro Retro Bowl, for one reason: Recruiting and roster building is absolutely broken. There aren't enough ways to raise scholarship dollars, and the prices of players are too high... so you can't possibly build a balanced team. You either end up with one side of the ball being much better than the other, or you only have 5 or 6 players. The game also screws you when you take a new job. I moved up to the Ohio S. job. In real life it's one of the 5-10 best jobs in college football. The team was pretty well rated on the job selection screen. After I took the job, suddenly they were a disaster. I only had four players, with no QB... and somehow all the players who left only gave me $17K in scholarship money... and all the recruitable QBs cost more than that. So I'm supposed to play an entire season (and maybe longer) without a QB? That would never, ever happen. Especially not at a top school. This game needs a lot of work.

by Flipy Flips

This game is a good concept but has not been executed in a good way. This is almost the same game as retro bowl but with the draft being replaced by recruiting, some new gimmicks like GPA, donations, conferences, different schedules, etc. But this is an unfinished product, many of the teams are unfinished uniform wise which takes away from the game and it lacks depth and any difference from retro bowl. The recruiting is basically the draft from retro bowl and isn’t anything new. Another thing is that you have to pay for premium again if you already had it in retro bowl. My advice: finish the uniforms and stadiums, link retro bowl and retro bowl college together so you don’t have to pay twice, and make it unique, fix the recruiting to be actual recurring (look at ncaa football 07 recruiting and implement something like that). Just make it unique and finished and it can become a good game.

by Theisleofmanman

This game is fun as it has the core mechanics of retro bowl but in its current state it just feels like retro bowl with very little things changed, however I do think this game still has potential. What I would change:
Add recruiting, perhaps the most important aspect of college football but it isn’t in this game

Bigger rosters, it just doesn’t make sense to be limited to a ten or 12 man roster in a college setting perhaps raising roster size to 20 and 25 for premium would be a good idea. With this idea it is also important that bench players gain XP.

Redshirting, in addition to recruiting this is another large part of CFB missing. Redshirting could double player development for that year while they are on the bench.

Play calling, would be simple to add and would add a lot to the gameplay

Option runs, a staple of college football offense and it is clear that it needs to be in the game In conclusion this game just isn’t fresh enough and plays almost the exact same as retro bowl