First AFL Live footage!

[Ambrose Burnside]

Early beta footage. Some collision detection issues, and there seems to be some animation frames missing when Ablett goes from running to kicking, but it looks pretty damn good.

Plus the Youtube video has an awesome title

[Rega]

Haha! Love the title.

[JonDogg]

Hope they spend heaps of time on this game to make it worth while. The graphics look good though. And what was the Umpire doing in that video, running straight at the contest and through the Geelong player's head. Still some work to be done.

[halfacow]

Proof that ablett has no left foot!

[Ambrose Burnside]

Hope they spend heaps of time on this game to make it worth while. The graphics look good though. And what was the Umpire doing in that video, running straight at the contest and through the Geelong player's head. Still some work to be done.

It's leaked beta footage. The game has been in development since at least 2009.

Agreed the collision detection still needs work. One of the benefits of AFL games (from the developers point of view) though is that the camera will never be that close to the action, which means we probably won't notice some of the issues while we're actually playing.

I remember playing PES3 - the best soccer game on the market at the time - and it had horrible clipping issues during the goal celebrations. They weren't noticeable during the actual gameplay though.

AFL games have a long history of sucking big time, but I have high hopes for this one. Hell, Ablett looks like Ablett, which immediately puts it well above the previous AFL games! I remember playing one where Ben Cousins was bald (along with a host of others), and another where Aboriginals were white!

[discobrad]

man oh man i hope it ends up awesome

[Mr Spinks]

My brother is one of the programmers working on it. It still has a while to go till all the kinks are worked out.

[Ambrose Burnside]

What issues are they still having?

[Avarice]

Ablett seems to do an "old school" drop kick?

Looks interesting... hope it turns out good!

[Nekosan]

Are they including a minigame where you have to stop your player getting drunk and glassing his girlfriend then exposing himself to children every time he isn't at training? It would also be pretty fun to manage your players ego and crushed self esteem, the more success your team has the more your players feel their life sucks and turn to hard drugs


edit: pretty nice looking graphics, might all be motion blur though, be interested to see how polished the final product is.

[Ambrose Burnside]

With Fevola sacked, the game is already out of date

[Ambrose Burnside]

Previews have started to be written:

http://www.xboxworld.com.au/articles/features/afl-live-hands-on-preview.htm

AFL Live for Big Ant, I truly believe, has been a labour of love. It’s a game that has been in development for three long years, and has been built from the ground up. I don’t doubt most, including myself, will criticize it for being bare bones feature wise; though I implore gamers to just have faith. Just listening to Ross today talk about his vision for future iterations and where they plan on taking the series made me realize that while AFL Live won’t be the perfect game, it’ll be the perfect foundation on which to build a remarkable sporting franchise we’d be proud to call home-grown.

http://ps3.mmgn.com/Articles/AFL-Live-2011-Preview

It’s been a long wait, but footy fans might finally be getting a good and fun AFL game. Developer Big Ant seems intent on providing an accessible and enjoyable platform for future iterations, and AFL Live 2011 most definitely looks to be the perfect candidate for that. Not only has considerable effort been put into its presentation, but also the gameplay has been designed to re-create the ambiguous nature of the sport as accurately as possible. Simplicity just wouldn’t work with a game like this, and yet the development team has molded complex football skills into practical control mechanics. AFL Live 2011 has been a few years in the making now, but it most definitely seems to have been worth the wait.

I pre-ordered yesterday, because apparently there's a pretty cool pre-order bonus (plus EB offer 7 day returns so if it's a turd I don't lose anything)

[AsTheRushComes]

the minigame where you just have set shots from all over inside the 50 is worth the $$$

[JonDogg]

I pre-ordered yesterday, because apparently there's a pretty cool pre-order bonus (plus EB offer 7 day returns so if it's a turd I don't lose anything)

Do you know what the pre-order bonus is? If it's pretty cool then it will make me pre-order. I think I heard people say it's a mini footy or something, so not that cool. But I want it on the PC and you can't pre-order on PC yet. I think they said it's to "slow down" piracy by coming out a couple of months later so people will just end up buying it on console instead of torrenting it. The console versions are coming out April this year they say, 21st maybe.

[aussie]

They should have a Kim Duthie mini game.