Draft Day Sports: College Basketball 2020

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.