Draft Day Sports: College Basketball 2020

I was using the NCAA Mod and also used Woverine studios store bought game...31 hours in and I thought maybe Wolverine Studios changed and created a sturdier code for their games. Well, looks like I am wrong. Give it credit, it lasted 8 seasons before crash that I can't come back from. In middle of recruiting season, after summer camp. The game just crashes and sits on loading...attempted to run commissioner thinking I can bypass it, wrong. Wolverine Studios, you gotta stop tricking people. Nobody wants to play a game that crashes and does not have any sustainability. You claim you can play dynasties, why does this crash so much? Worse part? It crashes even earlier without any mods...shocker. 29 dollars for this? Nah, drop your game down to 9.99 at best. Years and years of you getting people to buy this at 29, you gotta stop the madness.

The biggest waste of money I have ever spent. Could be a really fun game if it didnt crash and lock up on you constantly. So far the furthest I have gotten is 3 games into the season before it locked up. If you enjoy sitting in a chair and watching an hourglass spin for hours and hours and hours, this is the game for you, otherwise don buy. Tried to get a refund from steam but they said no because I had played it too long. Little do they know that of the 12 hours I had played it, I amagine 8 hours of it was spent staring at the hourglass.

Don't get. this game freezes on you in the worst times of the game and when you try to save it, it freezes. this game has a lot of promise and is somewhat fun but whats the point when your game crashes everyday and your career file is corrupt cause it freezes when it tries to save. i had to request my money back because the creators of this game don't know how to make a game with no bugs or even attempt to try to fix the problem. Im sure if you scroll through the reviews you will see the similar problem. save yourself the trouble, don't get.

Worked well for a while. It's really fun. Got a new PC and then it just won't work right anymore. Roster tab doesn't show roster, depth chart doesn't appear, and strategy always says I'm not the head coach even though I am. If you click 20 to 45 times you can have it come once until you click off it again. However, no point as I can't advance anymore. Won't let me click recruiting plans to advance. So I can not recommend this game anymore sadly. If the bugs were fixed this game would be perfect.

Still crashes basically constantly. I have played some other Wolverine games and they have had all had some instability problems, but this version crashes even more. It has crashed 3 times on me in less than an hour of play.

This game is almost flawless. The best and most immersive coach simulation I have played. However a major javascript data table bug occurs so frequently it is almost unplayable. When this bug occurs your depth, practice, strategy, and roster screens are either unavailable or you cant make adjustments as the screen is just locked. I have seen this problem in the forums and nobody really has an answer for it. Takes this game from a 10/10 down to a 4/10 for me. So close to being perfect. Really hope these guys can fix this problem for future entries because they have so close to a perfect gem with these games. Almost 100 hours in now and honestly to this point I think I am finally done with it. I am tired of fighting with it. Only thing I have really found is shutting my laptop down and after a few hours it suddenly fixes itself and sometimes it does nothing to fix it till I get to the next season. It happens at complete random and fixes itself at complete random.

As a sim that focuses on recruiting and team-building, this game scratched an itch that I've had since losing the EA and 2K franchises on consoles. DDS CB202 does a particularly nice job of simulating the recruiting experience, it doesn't provide much excitement when it comes to playing the game of basketball on the court. That being said, in the very small market of college sports sims, it's a pretty good game for those interested in exploring what it would be like to try to build a career as a college basketball coach. HIGHLY CUSTOMIZE-ABLE, IT TAKES A LITTLE BIT OF WORK TO MAKE IT "REAL" While the base game consists of "fictional schools" that are based on the real schools (ex. "North Carolina Rams"), you have to download and install a user-created file from the Wolverine message boards if you want the real school names--which worked for me and made the game even more enjoyable. THIS IS A CAREER SIMULATOR, NOT AN ACTION GAME The weakest part of the game in my opinion is playing the individual games. While there are many options as a coach to keep you busy including switching offenses/defenses, increasing/decreasing defensive pressure and offensive pace, calling timeouts, and controlling substitutions, I don't really enjoy participating in the games and prefer to simply simulate them. The on-court action takes place with jerseys sliding around the court, a ball moving between "players", and a pretty basic text-based play-by-play ticker. Compared to games like Out of the Park Baseball, the on-court experience is lacking. BUILDING A CAREER WILL TAKE TIME I created a coach and started out as a head coach of a small school. Unlike other games, I can see that building a legendary career is going to take some time. Even after getting my small school to the NCAA tournament 2 years in a row, the only other job offers I had were head coaching positions at smaller schools or assistant coaching positions at larger schools. I'm only 4 years in at this point, so I can't yet comment on how well the game holds together as years go by (I did see that UNC was under .500 two years in a row which would be very unusual for that program; and teams like Florida emerged as perennial national championship contenders), but I do feel like I have some control over the sim through my recruiting and coaching decisions. OVERALL, IT'S A GOOD GAME FOR WHAT IT IS Overall, as a head coach simulator, I'm really enjoying the game and look forward to sinking many more hours into this one.

I work from home so the majority of my gaming are simulation games, where I specialize in sports simulation games. I always knew Wolverine Studio had potential, but in 2020 they are finally breakthrough through. If you missed March Madness this year this is incredibly immersive and has you really caring about your team, your players and how far up the prestige ladder you can go. There is a degree of realism, and the March Madness coverage while lacking (a graphical tree), had a nice surprise coverage angle that I was stunned to see. Only Eastside Hockey Manager has offered me a better playing experience and re-playability. This game has given me more confidence over this studio's abilities to produce qualities Titles. There were only some minor database bugs encountered. Historical stats seem decent, the interface is very clean and for the most part the AI does a good job. Now let's get to the meet of the game, the original recruiting system. You can see they worked on it quite a bit, I started as the new team with no Prestige with some ability in recruiting and working my way up in the league is truly a delight that I anticipate will take me a few 100 hours to complete. This game is basically the spiritual successor of Fast Break College Basketball 2010, and has much more flavor, although I do wish the basketball players had more attributes and a bit more complexity, it's just enough. Recruiting a good team that somehow can go far into the Tournament is an enticing challenge. Wolverine Studio have created more immersive games in 2020, as compared with their previous titles of years past. This however so far is the first stunning success. If you enjoy Sports simulation and Basketball, I highly recommend it. The macro and in-game aspects of the game are stimulating and even the limited audio is passable. When I got to my first March Madness, I could not believe the coverage. I felt like I was in an EA game for a second. I felt excited and that was something I wasn't expecting. I do wish I could customize more things like adding new teams, new conferences and so forth. Some of the stats of how Freshman evolved in their subsequent years was also a bit puzzling on the AI teams side. But these overall, are minor considerations. I was delighted about the quality of immersion this College basketball simulator provides. The difficulty in recruiting is actually perfect, I don't want it to be too easy. The frustration is real if you choose a low prestige team as your own. But it makes getting better players that much more satisfying. As for how the ranking work and the depth of the coverage and things to look at, that's where they truly did an awesome job and makes me want to buy their other games to support their work. I could not believe how well this game turned out. It takes Basketball simulation to the next level, and I cannot wait for the 2021 version of this game.

This game is incredibly immersive and is a great option for those looking for a college basketball simulation game. There's a few things that after playing for several hours I would change (the game needs a third simulation speed for those that like to play the role of commissioner and just view the games), and there are some bugs when you are viewing teams (sometimes it takes multiple clicks to view a screen), but overall I'm very happy with this gameplay and the purchase. Comps: Football Manager or OOTP for College Basketball

I have had 4 crashes in 13 hours causing me to have to go back a few months of game time with each crash.