Axis Football 2023

Another fantastic iteration; I would stop wasting money on EA's greedy trash and turne to the Axis series for your man's football (American Football) needs rather than the garbage that EA has turned Madden and NCAA into. Great job and huge thanks to the Axis devs for continuing with this fantastic series.

Very fun Cheap football game although, they could be more detailed in the design

I love this game. I've played over one hundred hours of this game. It's very addicting. I'm also aware of the existence of Madden, yet I won't bother trying to compare one against the other, because the scope and resources available are far too dissimilar for a good analysis. I've also played a few exhibitions of the 2024 game, which is similar enough to the 2023 game that this review kind of counts for both. Pros: * Endlessly replayable * Deep franchise mode * Deep enough stats and info to make sensible changes to roster and scheme. In other words, if you scheme poorly or draft/trade for the wrong guys, the game will be noticeably more difficult. * Gameplay is pretty smooth. I turn off all penalties to make it even smoother. Player controls are pretty simple so it feels more like an arcade style game than Madden. It's easy to goof up controls, which can result in unintended player movement and penalties, so turning off penalties eliminates frustration with player controls. * The ultimate reason why I enjoyed this game so much was the NFL mod. I liked simulating with real rosters and coaches. It makes the game feel more comfy, rather than alien and distant. * I'm a big fan of the run game. The running backs are comically overpowered in the game, meaning I easily get run touchdowns every other drive as well as punt return touchdowns at least once a game. Cons: * The run game is overpowered. While it's fun on offense, it's extremely frustrating on defense. No matter what scheme I use (5-3 usually the most effective but extremely weak when an obvious pass audible is called), offenses easily get 5-6 yards/carry. * Another aspect of this game that makes it feel arcade-like is how offense is so easy that scores can easily reach 40+ each game for both sides. * Game controls are not very obvious, especially on defense. It seems like players mostly control movement and speed but tackle style is more up to the AI. While this isn't horrible, it makes playing defense feel very passive. * Because of how one-dimensional the games feel, I ended up just using coach mode all the time. I'd like to see improvement to make the game feel more realistic and balanced. Then I'd be more inclined to play with my XBox controller.

Thumbs sideways for this version. I played AF since AF17. Since I have arthritis I only play franchise mode in coach mode to avoid the hand movements. Over the years some great improvements have been made in this game. The flip side is they do not seem to spend the time getting the bugs out of every version. 2023 had some great improvements but the bugs are numerous and horrible compared to previous versions. Some bugs persist from version to version but mostly new ones come up and in 2023 it is like they did not test the improvements so there is glitches all over. 2023 is still playable with all the glitches. I hesitate to get the next version because of this track record. May try something else. BTW, I work as a programmer so I know about testing the software. I will say again there are some excellent improvements over the previous versions!!! I do still support this game because it does have promise.

game rating 8/10 This game is very good but the gameplay alone is mid and this is not a knock on it. it's just that the game is great in terms of hiring staffs and we're allowed to choose teams and implement playbooks of teams i'd love a create a playbook, create a team modes along with a my player mode where we can play as a single player and play through his career in the axis leagues or our modded leagues. i love the game but honestly i want this game to be better in terms of gameplay especially when you movement feels archaic and camera angles alone is mid. i'll recommend this if you want a franchise mode game and love managing situations but i want a myplayer mode and i think the dev is capable of that it will take time. for a 19.49$ game, it's worth it.

Decent gameplay but franchise is all messed up and gets worse as you go longer in to the season.

simple but gets the job done

this game is so fun

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axis football 2023 his a good game overall. outside of the gameplay witch honelsty sucks, and the anouncers that just werent prograhmed well the rest of the game is great, i love how you can customize teams and outside of playing franchise mode is really fun. i would give this game a 3.5 stars but if you want to try the gameplay go ahead