My first exposure to this game was as a rental.  I'm not a big sports game guy.  I played it some, got good enough at the volley ball to make lots of Zack Dollars.  Enjoyed the realistic "Physics Engine," got bored with it and that would have been the end of it.  My wife though couldn't get enough.  She said it was like playing with barbi dolls and enjoyed buying suits and trying them on the different characters.  I was forced to buy her a copy of the game so she could play it for hours on end, getting new suits for different characters and giving suits to characetrs as gifts so she could see how that character looked in a suit she couldn't buy.  It was really sort of sureal.  I guess the story here is that women shouldn't write this game off.  they may actually enjoy it more then the men who are supposed to be buying it.
My first exposure to this game was as a rental. I'm not a big sports game guy. I played it some, got good enough at the volley ball to make lots of Zack Dollars. Enjoyed the realistic "Physics Engine," got bored with it and that would have been the end of it. My wife though couldn't get enough. She said it was like playing with barbi dolls and enjoyed buying suits and trying them on the different characters. I was forced to buy her a copy of the game so she could play it for hours on end, getting new suits for different characters and giving suits to characetrs as gifts so she could see how that character looked in a suit she couldn't buy. It was really sort of sureal. I guess the story here is that women shouldn't write this game off. they may actually enjoy it more then the men who are supposed to be buying it.