NFL Head Coach
by EA Sports
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Video Game Reviews of NFL Head Coach
Customer Review: We'll have to wait till next year...
Summary: 2 Stars
I love playing Madden, and when I saw this game I was extremely excited. When I first started playing I really enjoyed it, ignoring some minor flaws. But the in-game play is terrible. I'm no Don Shula, but I could've coached my team to consecutive undefeated seasons and outscored my opponents by thousands of points if I played this game any longer. The first game I played, I won 45-0. And that was no fluke, I won my first regular season game 58-7, and the three other games I played were all blowouts as well. I had Lamont Jordan getting 70+ yard touchdown runs in almost every game. My opponent, Drew Brees, threw 7 interceptions in a game. I was waiting for some tough competition to show up, but I eventually lost my patience. You cannot change difficulty level (which is stuck on ridiculously easy) or quarter length (5 minutes)
Some reviews here say things that are false, it is unnecessary to wait forever during the draft, or go through every single meeting (although they're really no big deal they take about a minute). The only things I would really simulate through are the games. Infact, you can simulate your entire season, or your whole career for that matter. Personally, I liked the behind the scenes coaching in your office or on the practice field.
Make sure you are aware though that this game will require an advanced computer (it seems other people here haven't realized it), a simple office computer will only play the game at very poor quality. And don't complain about the graphics, EA uses a different graphics engine for the computer than the consoles (if you play Sims 2 or Madden 06 on the computer you will realize this).
If you buy this game, you will notice numerous minor yet noticeable flaws in it (people falling down in practice late, incorrect calls on the play-by-play ticker), some worse flaws (if you hit backspace during while calling a play during practice it is necessary to exit the game using Ctrl+Alt+Del), and absolutely pathetic AI for your opponent. If EA makes an NFL Head Coach 2 and fixes it up and makes in-game coaching much better, it will be a fantastic game. But until the second edition, we're stuck with a sub-par game.
Customer Review: Being A Head Coach Is This Boring?????
Summary: 1 Stars
This game is just plain boring!
I had no idea being a head NFL coach would be this boring.
If you like sitting in meetings, answering the phone and reading emails....this game is for you.
All of the tasks that are required of you take forever to do...even reading emails takes several steps.
When you finally get to coach a game....IT IS BORING!!!!!!
Complete waste of time and money.
Save time and money to just play the regular EA College Football games or Madden Games.
Customer Review: Allright
Summary: 3 Stars
The game itself is allright. I agree with everyone, that it has way too much detail from the coaching aspects. In the coaching meetings, the coaches always seem to ask the same questions. For example, I drafted a rookie punter in the final round of the draft and after four games he is avg. 50+ yds per punt, but every week my special teams coach, wants to bench him and let my kicker do both duties. WHY??? The offensive coordinator is an idiot during gameplay. For example, I was trailing 17-13 with a minute to go with no timeouts and I had the ball. THE OC wants me to run the ball. Hello, I not a football genius, but maybe I need to pass the ball. The defensive coordinator, not too much brighter, constantly wants to call dime defensives on first down. I did, however, enjoyed the draft. I thought it was well thought out. Some of the picks were a little off, Reggie Bush went 9th. Some cornerback from East Tennessee State was drafted at 7. Mel Kiper commentary is pretty good. If you make a dumb pick, he will let you know. One person reviewed that the draft was in real time and you had to wait 30 minutes between picks. Not true, just press the square button and it sims to your next pick. Overall, this game has a lot of problems, but it is the first time out. I am sure EA sports will take all the feedback and make this a most own game in the future. Right now, I would hold off buying it until a couple of years from now, when it's a bargain bin game. Trust me, you should be able to go to any game store in the next few months and find it in the used games, because it just has too many flaws right now.Customer Review: This game blows
Summary: 1 Stars
I love strategy simulation games. One of the best is Football Manager 2006 (a soccer simulation) as it is one of a long line of great management games, and I play it religiously. NFL Head Coach, though, stinks on ice. EA Sports tries to make the game as though you are a real coach...but too real. Endless meetings that could be done through text messages instead of having to actually move from place to place, office hours, meetings with owners...ACK!!
Train players, draft players, trade players, create a playbook, coach games. That's all there should be in this stupid game. Unfortunately, there's too much junk in it. I really had high hopes for this game, but, apparently, EA Sports didn't even bother to look at some of the sports strategy sims that are out there to see what works. Instead, they included everything that didn't.
On a side note...how do these idiots keep their jobs? If the reviewers here on Amazon can see the flaws in the game, can't EA Sports see them?
Customer Review: Great idea but falls way too short...
Summary: 2 Stars
I am a huge fan of the NCAA game, and I like the Madden game mostly for the owner/coaching modes in Dynasty, so I thought this game would be great. Wrong...
The main problem I have with this game that has not been mentioned in the other reviews is the horrible, horrible interface. Half of the things needed to be done in the game are impossible to find. Like I'm trying to sign free agents, I wanna see how much more space on my roster there was (ya know, I already have X players out of 55)...after ten minutes of looking...nothing. Could not for the life of me find it in Roster Breakdown. Had to manually count the roster.
Later on, while trying to organize my depth chart, I was trying to change position designations for players (mainly so I stopped getting the stupid warning that I had too few ILBs...was gonna switch an OLB). Hmmmm...simple enough...ended up turning off the game because the game kept telling me I was already in the middle of some task and had to wait for Office Hours. I would go into Office Hours, and it would give me some other reason as to why I couldn't change Player Info (it was the wrong period...this is the time to Sign Players, or something).
Horribly frustrating game, and the actual gameplay, when you're coaching is cr*p. No real play-by-play announcer, you're zoomed way out from the action, I don't like the camera angle, you can't set different quarter lengths, and most annoyingly, everything is in real time. If you wanna talk to the players and motivate them/strategize you do it according to game clock time (coordinators call plays in your absence). So you'd think there was some easy on-screen menu to access such options. No...you have to dig through several menus, wasting precious gametime. And forget trying to call a timeout. Takes forever, digging through all the menus.
A well-intentioned game, an interesting concept, but the interface and flow are atrocious. PASS ON THIS ONE!