

While it's still a little confusing where the line of a clean hit and unsportsmanlike conduct can be on what appears to be a legitimate tackle, the defense can bring the pain when they need to. Players still have the ability to land frightening, bone crunching hits on players, spinning them around like tops in mid-air or smashing them into walls.

Hard hits are still in, deep gameplay is still left out.ĭefense hasn't really been changed that much in Road to Glory. The other part has to do with the fact that you don't seem to have as much accuracy when you're using both analog sticks, making it hard to place the ball exactly where you want it to go without accidentally throwing it away. Part of it has to do with the fact that trying to maneuver your quarterback at the same time you're trying to slice your way through a defense can be mentally taxing to pull off, even with multiple hours of practice and games under your belt. This is designed to give you a lot more control over your entire offense, but there are some serious problems with the concept.

By using the right analog stick, you can control the quarterback while at the same time running your route with the left analog stick. Before the ball is snapped, you select the receiver you want to play and then hike the ball. Attempting to add a little depth to the unbalanced offensive aerial assault is the option to control both your quarterback and a receiver at the same time. While you can swarm a team's most thrown to receiver with your defensive backs, it's easy for an astute quarterback to set up a defense with one receiver and quickly pick them apart with ball distribution to the uncovered receivers. In fact, the same deep crossing routes, post and fly routes from last year's game will still wind up being just as deadly in Road to Glory. As a result, you'll wind up relying a lot more upon the passing game than any other football game you've ever played. Thanks to the various limitations of linebackers blitzing around specific holes in the line or running plays that are easily telegraphed and sniffed out by defenders, you're probably going to be lucky to gain a few extremely hard-fought feet in short yardage situations. What won't come easily is gaining yards via the ground game.
