NFL Head Coach
by EA Sports
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Video Game Reviews of NFL Head Coach
Customer Review: EA Misses the Handoff
Summary: 1 Stars
I can say this much for sure: No little boys who play this game will ever want to grow up to be an NFL head coach.
The product description claims that the game has "the strategy and realism that real fans crave," but unless your strategy is one of the *two* strategies that exist in the game, you're out of luck.
It also claims "easy-to-use controls and assistance," but the feather-light 10 page instruction booklet doesn't really explain anything that isn't already on the outside of the box.
I won't address the dozens of bugs that ruin the gameplay and, in some cases, corrupt your many hours of progress, but if EA doesn't take a closer look at some of the issues, there will be gamers with pitchforks parading in the streets.
Customer Review: Interface worst of all-time
Summary: 1 Stars
I've been a soccer management game player for years. I was looking forward to this game with great anticipation.
Let me sum this up quickly: This game has the worst interface of all-time. It's awful, really hard to move around and completely unuseable. It's as if EA wanted to take The Sims and marry all the characters and conversations into a management game.
When you are in a management game, which is not for all game players, you want menus so you can quickly get things done.
I got the feeling that EA was too lazy to differentiate the PC engine from PS2 engine.
Deeply, deeply, disappointed that EA put out a piece of junk like this.
Customer Review: Totally Misses the Mark
Summary: 1 Stars
I've been a fan of football simulations for a long time. I used to love to play Front Page Sports football on PC because of the strategy involved in drafting a team, managing your roster, making trades, signing players etc.
When Madden cornered the market and put all other football sims out of business, I was disappointed, but they at least beefed up the franchise mode over time and allowed the coaching mode thing, which was good for me. I don't like to control the players, I just want to make the executive decisions. When I saw NFL Head Coach coming out, I was really excited because I thought this would be another move in that direction without all the arcade game overhead (why should I pay for an arcade game when what I really want is a more sophisticated management system).
After one evening of playing this thing, I am totally disappointed and frustrated. The EA interface is rediculous in all ways. Just to turn that stupid music off you have to click a button 100 times when they should just have a slider. The backspace key doesn't erase letters, instead you have to use [ or something. You can control how high your coaches eyebrows are on his face, but you can't get a good look at your roster and find out how many positions you need to fill and all this mindless task based crap is annoying. All the detail is in all the wrong places. I don't want to sit around clicking on pre-constructed sentences that I feed to fake coaches/owners. I want to watch college games and pick out players that I need, interact more with agents and other coaches and have a better draft sim and a more sophisticated playbook This is not a strategy game-- they've taken all the strategy out of it and replaced it with some horrible 1980s computer role playing game.
Total step in the WRONG direction.
Customer Review: head coach
Summary: 5 Stars
this game is extremely fun. it is just like you are the head coach. the draft is one of the most fun features in any football game ever.Customer Review: You get out of it, What you put in to it.
Summary: 4 Stars
I'm not sure what most of the bad reviews are based on. To me this game is exactly what I expected. Is the game filled with too much detail? Sure, that is why most NFL head coaches have disfunctional family lives -- if they have one at all.
Some of the game interfaces could be better but I think that the fact that the game forces you to follow a daily schedule keeps your tasks on track. EXAMPLE - at first it was frustrating to only negotiate a hand full of contracts at a time before being pulled away to talk with the owner -- but that is the way it goes for a head coach.
I also think many of those who dislike the game either wanted a head coach only game (pick assistant coaches, set depth charts, run practices & play games) or they wanted a GM game (sign free agents, scout for the draft, the draft itself & balance the salary cap). It seems many people do not like doing both head coach & GM tasks.
Overall this game will need improvements in future years but I think this is an outstanding first effort for EA.