Front Page Sports Football

I've been trying to play this game since i downloaded it, but I can't get past the draft. For starters, the draft really makes no sense. I can pick ten players, and I'll get 7 of them. There needs to be more time devoted to scouting prospects. Scouts and GM's go through film, combine, etc. In this game, you start with the first two rounds immediately, and you can only scout up to 4 people. that's dumb. If I am a GM, I'm going to pump money into my scouting. So put more emphasis on the draft, and give us more time to review players. Next, I can't sign anyone. That's ridiculous. I cut 8 players and I keep getting an error, that I can't sign more than 53 players. I have 46. I can't sign rookies, and I can't sign free agents. I'm not rolling with this game until you fix it.

I like the player attributes and using that to try to draft the best players I can, etc. Overall, its probably a good effort, but things are not quite right. On defense, I've seen two players lineup in the same position before the snap (seeing only one then splitting up a little after the snap). I would a find that certain plays that always would succeed and can just blow out my opponents (why use anything else), regardless of team quality. meh. As I play along, it seems to get a little glitchy. I think the old Front Page Football from back during the Dynamix/Sierra period was probably better (especially for it's time period). Perhaps in future editions, Cyanide will improve on it's football "engine."

It would be great, if the training portion was more realistic. A whole team trains every week, not one category at a time. And the crashes........wow, the crashes. Every hour, without fail. It's why I don't even bother playing anymore.

You know what's funny? When a game's trailer is a flat out lie

Tags: Tycoon&Simulator&Sim&City Additional Tag: Delete Local Content & Remove from Library TLDR: Buttons - Buttons everywhere. Green Numbers, Red Numbers. Next Week - Next Week. Little square moves forward. Event window shows stuff like scouts and draft picks I have no idea what they mean. I dont know why its 2014 and all these fake teams are kind of cringe. Also no game you cannot go through my firewall just because I pressed next week. What do you wanna do that for

I hope the patches are still coming, guys, because there's alot to fix. Huge NOes: Not able to sign players despite not having filled all 53 roster spots is huge, and I'm unable to renew contracts as well. So far I haven't found a way how to trade players, unless the other team decide to put them on the trade-list. Rather odd way of showing stats which screams "not NFL enthusiast by any means". Not huge, but still NOes: My kickers have "long FG" 65 or more yards in the stats-report after each game, despite only kicking for 30 or 40. Actually, thank god they don't kick 65 yarders in this game, I wouldn't be shocked, to be honest. That's just one of many small bugs. Not a deal breaker, but annoying. There probably should be some sort of 'assistant-picks the starters/training' sort of option as well. I don't think I ever played a sport sim game that doesn't have it. Also I don't understand why wouldn't you follow the NFL system: 4 pre-season games instead of 2 and longer camp would make sense - this way there's simply very little room for tinkering with line-up and finding the right guys for starting positions. Also the playoffs are done flat-out wrong with top teams not having bye weeks, plus there are no bye weeks in the regular season either. Top teams have byes. I don't hate UI, but at least the standings / simulating games pages could use little polishing and make it slightly more nfl.com-like. I really want to like this game, but at this point it's pretty hard. With that said, there's definitely a market for this kind of game, so I'm hoping the creators won't drop the ball. Still believing and looking forward to future versions, but at this point can't recommend buying it.

For people for whom English is not their first language, and (I assume) football isn't a big sport where they are located, this is an admirable attempt at a football title. That said, it is still a less than stellar product that really doesn't capture anything about the game other than the snazzy name - which is why I bought it thinking it was a update to the old '97 title. From the sad interface, the limited choices of training, the poor scouting module, the non-existent 3D view, and other little things - it's 1st and 2nd, not 1th and 2th, the game stumbles so hard you have to pity it. But it does play every game, unlike a lot of other sims. Which is something. This can be fixed. It would take some work, but it can. I doubt however the developer will do so. As it is, don't waste the money here. Waste it elsewhere.