I’m not even going to lie – I haven’t played BCFx since the day after I purchased it. The game is just that bad.
As a black college alumnus, I’ve been trying to negotiate my pride in black college sports with the severely underwhelming quality of this game. And I’ve come to the final conclusion that it is a historical collector’s item with no redeeming entertainment benefit.
I will respect the game and its creators for being the first to put it out there. As someone who is on the ground floor on building a media brand around black college athletics – believe me when I say that the effort was necessary and well-received.
But this is not a fun game to play – it’s not well engineered and not very challenging. The one bright spot about its creation is that a more-tenured game maker like Electronic Arts may be induced to see the hype and excitement for this game, and attempt to capture it in a future release.
This particular reviewer sums it up and down with disappointing accuracy.
It’s unfortunate that Black College Football: The Experience – The Doug Williams Edition is such a horrendous collection of bad gameplay and features. Both the alums of these institutions as well as the students would gladly pay for a game that accurately captured the spirit and the excitement of gameday for HBCUs. However, this is not the way to approach this demographic, and on top of this, the experience is so poorly done that it would probably infuriate them. Given that this isn’t the first attempt by Nerjyzed to make these games, it seems that capturing the real black college football experience is still far from being accurately presented any time soon.
