Total College Basketball Demo & Demo Upgrade

The world of sports is very exciting, especially for the young athletes that get a chance to show off their talents in front of an entire world. However, they all need to start somewhere, since no one plays in the NBA without any prior experience. Hence, school teams are by far the best launching ground, especially if they happen to have a dedicated coach that does everything in his power to train them.

Total College Basketball is a sim game that allows you to take the reign of a college basketball team and lead them to success, by applying your own strategies out on the court and pushing them to train and develop their talents. You also have to research on the opposing teams and find their weaknesses, in order to make it easier for your players to outsmart them.

To start off with, you can choose from hundreds of available teams, scattered all around the country at different schools. Naturally, they may not be as talented as the professional players, but they have the potential to turn into stars, which makes them very valuable. You can recruit many other upcoming young talents, by scouting summer camps and schools.

After you finish organizing the team and deciding upon the desired strategy, you can head on and participate in matches against schools, as well as regional or national competitions with great prizes. In order to enjoy the fruits of your labor and witness your tactics in action, the game allows you to watch the matches, using the included 2D simulation engine that shows what happens on the court in real time.

Speaking of which, other than the aforementioned simulation engine, text is the only thing you will be seeing on screen, as well as numbers and various schematics detailing your strategies. Thus, unless you are a devoted basketball fan, you might find the actual gameplay to be quite boring and lacking in excitement, especially since it far less refined that other, more popular titles.

In the end, Total College Basketball may have an original idea at its core, but that does not meant it made full use of its potential. Hence, while the game can be rather fun for short while, it quickly becomes repetitive and it lacks any kind of depth or replay value.