
Gridiron Masters '98 is an American Football presentation sim that places you in an alternate universe that encompasses college and pro football. Create your coach and see where their career takes them while looking through the lens of the late 90s.
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Gridiron Masters '98 simulates the sport of football and presents it to you in a sports network style. The bold colors and unforgettable design let you peak into a football world that encompasses 120 college teams in 10 conferences and 36 pro teams in the NFA. Enter a football world visually set in the 90's. The big pads, the neck rolls, waffle sole cleats, teal colored turf and larger than life sports personalities! Immerse yourself in the football world!
-Period accurate music!
-Voiced show hosts!
-Unforgettable design!
College and pro, fully simulated in one game!
-120 college teams (10 conferences)
-36 pro teams
-Completely playable
-Fully simulated team histories
-Start career in 1970-1990
-Job offers
-Unlimited world generation
-Generated character avatars
-Fully logged histories for all characters and teams
Team management is very light and quick which keeps things moving along. Tasks revolve around acquiring players and coaches with uncertain information.
-Draft board
-Simple free Agency
-Drafting
-Simple recruiting
-Transfers
-Offensive and defensive coordinator hiring
Keep up to date on events, news, scores and controversies with CSPN SportsZone! Watch as the show hosts layout the scores, stats and game analysis. So grab some pizza or whatever your pleasure is and watch the show! Don't forget the remote!
-Customizable weekly recaps
-Host discussions
-Game stories such as streaks, upsets, stat lines, new coaches, breakout players, close games, blowouts and more!
-More to come such as coach hires/fires, draft previews/reviews, season previews, playoff rankings, player/coach spotlight, coach/player interviews and more!
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Languages: English**languages with full audio support
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It is a college game that has a pro football layer to it, which is fine. There are some questionable choices as far as the playoffs and offseason goes, but that is because if you play the "professional" level of football on the platform, you are using college football style bracket playoffs, scouting, and offseason moves. It undermines it if you are looking to play the "pro" level of football, but would work fine on for the "college" level for sure. Needs a lot of ironing out, but I am sure this will improve nicely.
This has a lot of potential.
I have been going back and forth on whether to recommend people the game, I decided to because i believe that its unfair to say this game should not be recommended since its so early on in production. This game is a great concept, but I need more roleplaying features in the game, and I'm not just talking about making a character's stats. What I need out of this game is two main things, one... is a way to interact with games more, and two is to be invested in the players more, for example, I talk to a player and they tell me about what they are like or if they are having issues with something, and if i accomidate that i gain more trust, which leads to less miscues or something. This game deserves to have a huge dialogue tree akin to old rpgs like fallout 1 and baldurs gate 1 to get me invested In the world. The strength is the cspn broadcast at the end of the week, which takes forever to generate but is so cool when you do see it. To finish this off to avoid rambling, I will not refund the game as i want the dev to continue to work on this game as it has a lot of potential.
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Hours played at review time, across 28 reviews with recorded playtime.
This game has some issues, cool concept and great idea but it needs some work. 1) Just sim the game, sure you can change gameplan - only if you choose the right class/role. Which that has some serious bugs going on. 2) If you choose to play as Scout class, you seem to be bugged up and causes a soft lock when trying to talk with coaches. Games will not sim if you talk with coaches. Weird bug that shouldn't ever happen in the game. I waited 20 minutes to see if talking issue would go away. As the generating talking button only happened when using CSPN Sportzone feature. 3) Sportzone features takes awhile to load up, surprisingly crazy amount of time. Its a cool feature but it has some bugs. 4) The ratings and how the team plays is a bit a mystery besides seeing the miscue section and some percentages. I saw a team with D+ players beat the bricks off a team, only to come back and put up 10 pts against a middling squad. 5) Seemingly only got to 3 seasons, but never saw any of the NFL offers. Someone stated that High school is in the game, only saw that in history section. 6) Ranking system is absolutely wild - You could be bottom feeding, low rank team and beat #5 rank team, you become the 5th rank. That's usually not how AP poll and rankings actually work. But hey, its a game. Game could be good, but its a weird game and needs some development. Good try, needs polish. Much better updates, but still some time to go. Kudos to developer.
This game needs a lot more improvement. But this is a decent base for a football sim. The SportsCast is solid and a pretty cool addition to the game. i always love hearing about the other teams and how they fared instead of going and looking up the scores manually. Although, I feel both hosts can be somewhat stiff in their cadence I cant really fault that for a game in early access. An addition I feel to the cast could be another host or hosts could be added to talk about maybe upcoming games or players to watch out for, like who is leading the league in rushing yards or The simulation needs a lot more as well. During recruiting the AD constantly blocks my picks for any reason yet non is given. Also maybe a feature to watch your team play their games instead of just a loading screen to the result would be a welcome feature i would say, if that is in the cards. Otherwise, this is a cake that needs to be baked a while and i'm looking forward to tasting more of it.
I wish the stats were a little more fleshed out especially for WR on the game recap. For the show there needs to be a way to go from segment to segment in a way to skip a little or just a full running slider you can go back and forth with. I've only started to get in to transforming a school from a 0 win team to respectable and this game makes it fun. There is a lot of RNG but thats to be expected from a small developer. If the game keeps progressing and updating it will be definitely worth the price and experience
Good game. Fun to play
WHERES THE FOOTBALL?! menus for days but no gameplay. its just skips the FOOTBALL game and gives a random W/L and fake stats. Its soooooo lame. NOT WORTH THE MONEY.
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