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  • Summary: NFL Head Coach reinvents football gaming by introducing the first 3D strategy sports game that challenges gamers to build and manage every aspect of a football team from the ground up. A simple conversation system and an engaging 3D graphical interface allow users to immerse themselves into the lives of an NFL head coach. As head coach, you develop a team strategy, execute it on and off the field, and try to build a winning organization year after year. Your status as a coaching legend will rise and fall based on all of your actions as you strive to become the greatest head coach of all time. Behind the desk, on the practice field, or while wearing the headset on game days, take the reins of your favorite NFL team and lead it to victory. [Electronic Arts]… Expand

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 11 out of 19
  3. Negative: 4 out of 19
  1. WHAM! Gaming
    80
    This really is only for a defined group of hardcore football fans, but those fans won't find anything close to this anywhere else.
  2. Strategy Informer
    73
    A game specifically catered to football enthusiasts who are not really on the nitty-gritty of football technicalities. Creativity and the spirit of the football game are the very elements that EA and Tiburion had wonderfully weaved into this All-American game.
  3. eToychest
    40
    NFL head Coach is obviously targeted toward a very niche group of extreme football enthusiasts, but the game, such as it is, has been made into such a laborious, oftentimes arduous affair that even the target audience is likely to be turned away.

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  1. JoelD.
    9
    I think this is a wonderful game, been playing it pretty much none stop since the day I bought it which was 2 weeks ago.
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  2. MZ
    4
    I wish I would have waited for version 2. I was hoping it would be just a expanded Madden Franchise mode. The interface is laborious. I wish I would have waited for version 2. I was hoping it would be just an expanded Madden Franchise mode. The interface is laborious. Things can be quite annoying, if not confusing. I’d also like to insert my standard gripe about there not being a manual. Are copywriters just not in the budget for today’s game or do they want to whore us out of a few more bucks by putting out a game guide that has padded info just to make it thick. How about next time you charge us an extra $5 to buy the game and include a manual, not a pamphlet. It’s pretty hard to get a feel for your team. There are no pictures and the stats are hard to research for each player. Again, it has a horrible interface. I did enjoy the draft part which was very nicely done. The presentation here was very nice and it felt like a good sim. I also prefer the practices and workouts in the off season. I like the idea of putting the players through the drills to boost their stats and prepare them. It works much better and feels better than mini games in Madden. Games aren’t much fun either. You give each group of players strategies, but it again is hard to manage. You end up adjusting things while your coordinators make the calls. I would still like to see every play; even if I let my coordinators make most of the calls. In my opinion, they will hopefully take the good things from this game and mash it with Madden this year. I’d rather get that and play in coach mode during the games, but have a Coach style draft and practices. Bear in mind that I did not purchase the last Madden and the one before was for the PS2. I am now switching over to the PC again. I want to return to the days where I was President, Gm and coach, but didn’t control the players. Bottom line is the interface made me feel like I was playing an online Flash game.… Expand
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