Retro Bowl College game by New Star Games
The official spin-off of the smash hit RETRO BOWL takes you back to the old-school. If you thought managing a Pro Team was a challenge – you’ve seen nothing yet!
Game Features :
Make a name for yourself as a winning Head Coach for one of 250 College teams. Manage tight budgets and encourage your hotheaded young players to keep their eye on the ball when they’re surrounded by the temptations and distractions of College life. Can you tell the difference between the next Pro Football superstar and the party animal who doesn’t know when to quit? Can you foster their talents and help them make the Draft? Can you turn your school into the greatest Football College of all time?
Additional Information :
- Age Rating 12+
- Size 36.5 MB
- Requires iOS 9.0 or later.
User Reviews :
Potential to be Great
I like how every game matters and that the margin for error to get into the CFP is small (unlike Retro Bowl, where it feels like all you have to do is make the playoffs to win the Retro Bowl). The signing process and scholarship cap also forces you to calculate and sacrifice more, and means you can’t build an all-out five-star dominate team, which keeps the game exciting when you play tough teams. The GPA meter is interesting, and I have no problem trying to maintain it during the season, but if GPA drops during the season shouldn’t it rise over the off-season? It doesn’t seem fair that a player’s low, end-season GPA remains the same the following year (did he not study during spring and summer semester!?). And a four or five star Minor team can actually be more difficult to beat than most Major teams, so there might need to be an adjustment there. And I’m still confused about how to maximize the prevention of fumbles, especially for running backs, who seem to fumble more than WRs and TEs. And, of course, maybe the ability to choose a few more teams at the beginning would be nice. Also, I never liked having to play the final game of the season as your first game as head coach; teams usually hire coaches before the new season, and I’d rather start fresh than be at the tail end of a crappy season.
Needs to be more like the current college game
Love the OG retro bowl and have customized it as a college game for awhile now. So I was super excited for an actual college version to play but have found this one a little disappointing. First off, the gpa is weird as a lot of people have commented on so it needs to be changed where you don’t have to bench your players every other week. Once or twice a season seems more accurate. Second, where is the transfer portal and NIL? These are huge parts of the current game and could be easily modulated from the pro versions free agency and salary cap. New star needs to research this and add it here. It would be a nice wrinkle to have to match NIL offers from other schools between seasons.
Third, why can’t you start at the school of your choice? I like the work your way up approach but also might like to pick my team for a different game just for fun. I want to be able to do both. RB is escapist entertainment and sometimes I want to escape by working my way through the ranks and sometimes by dominating with my fave team. Give both options.
Finally, I don’t understand why certain parts of the game aren’t included. If you have kick returns why not punt returns? Kickers but not punters? Let us play defense! And actually see our defensive players we recruit in action! Let us have more players! 12 is not enough.
Overall RB is the best sports game app hands down and my fave. Keep working to make it even better.
Can’t pick College of youre choice – but why not?
I like this game. I also like the regular, Retro Bowl, which I played for years now. The main problem with the college Retro Bowl is that you’re unable to pick the college of your choice. When you first start playing the game, you can only choose from a limited number of low to your colleges. The question is, why? Why Is it structured this way? If the goal of the developers is to have the players work their way up, I get it. However, at some point, it’s simply ridiculous to prevent people from playing the college that they really like.
If the goal is to prevent everyone from picking, for example, Alabama, and winning every game every year, well, then make it harder …. The real fun and joy of playing a college football game is the colleges themselves. If you can’t play the college that you like, then this game is maddeningly frustrating. To put it bluntly, as structured, it serves no purpose.
To be clear now I have won multiple majors championships with multiple teams, including Nevada and Las Vegas – I won with Las Vegas two years in a row – Which should set me up as a pretty good player. However, most of the major college teams are still blacked out and I cannot pick them to play. Why? It serves NO purpose.
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