Sports games to take feeds from the Weather Channel and update themselves!

[thewayne]

Sounds pretty cool, not that I play sports games. I hope other games pick up on this idea. It'd be neat to see different weather patterns while running through different outdoors areas. If you could go into Preferences and select, say, Cloudcroft, for weather during forest sequences, that'd be really cool if it were raining outside and raining in the game!

http://www.wired.com/gaming/virtualworlds/news/2007/08/madden

Comments

[silveradept]

Now, will those weather patterns then affect the gameplay experience?

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

They say it will in the sports games. Cold/icy weather will result in more fumbles, hot weather will hasten exhaustion.

I think that's pretty cool.

[silveradept]

Definitely an interesting feature to have on hand. I wonder if it will be a factor in league-style games or simulated seasons.