NFL Head Coach 09 - Playstation 3

If you played the first NFL Head Coach and hated it, you are not alone. This is game is nothing like that game. Which immediately is why this game better. Ok, so the game is 5 years old soon to be 6. If you like the Colts, Tony Dungy and Peyton Manning, you can get rid of both of them try your luck with Matt Ryan or Joe Flacco leading the Colts. Put Ray Lewis on your Colts. You are the head coach or choose your own. You also don't have to nitpick your way through every single thing... unless you want to. This is a very underrated but entertaining game. Oh, the "special names" that were suppose to work in the first game but didn't. You don't need them for this game.

Jury is still out on this game for me. I've owned the game for a week now. Created my own coach and it gives you a rating on the level of difficulty for that particular team. You can start in the 2008 preseason or being at training camp. I always elect the offseason. Contract situations are all actual. However unlike the current NFL rules when you make a trade you still get a cap-hit.You have to be very careful with your Cap because during the offseason EVERY freeagent will be presented to you to get in on the bidding for. If your team has a lot of needs the temptation is to sign everyone that fits that need. Likewise you have NO idea what it's going to cost you to sign draft picks AND no idea what it's going to cost to sign players to fill your roster just before camp starts. The GM will sign undrafted rookies and free agents to fill your roster before camp as long as you have enough Cap space.Fatigue plays a major factor with your players and I think age has a bearing on it.After each game you go through a normal practice week and are presented with items you can work on. However, you are not necessarily given items to help you learn and develop new plays in your playbook. This season I have a lot of rookies and rookies at the same positions are given the same plays to work on. I've even worked on the halfback one day and the O-line the next and the plays were mostly the same. How successful you are depends on what plays are unlearned, learned or mastered. On an unlearned play the guys are like well, "where do I go, what's my assignment." Even if it is learned each player has a level of knowledge of that play. There's even a percentage for Mastered. The QB may have it mastered but the wideout may not. So practice is critical. However, you are not necessarily going to get to practice the plays you want to run in the game. That needs to be fixed.The first few times you try the game the learning curve is very high. Not that I don't know the sequence of events and the variables in coaching and team building; it's more the structure of the game; and what works and doesn't work.One thing I'm getting tired of rather quickly is emotional reaction. Too frequently during a game your are asked to give a calm or excited reaction to a particular play. Your reaction impacts your rating with everyone from fans, media, owner, staff and players. It breaks focus on what's going on on the field. And because the game as one reviewer said is not very fast when you press a button it adds to the frustration. I'm ready to call the next play.I miss my office from the original version. I miss the staff meetings. I want advice from my people like in the original. That's the way it is in the real world. In this version it seems your staff only have one function and that is to develop and impact the performance of your players by how much skill and special skills they possess. After wins your coaches earn skill points that you can spend to acquire new skills and advance skills you and they already have. How skilled you or your assistant coaches are impacts your players.I want this game to be great. I want it to be a challenge. I'm thinking it might wind up being too much of a headache to enjoy.One last thing. If this is true then I'd be done with the game. It almost seems like the outcome of each game is predetermined. In some games it seems like I'm dominating then all of a sudden my guys can't do anything right. Up by 21 then can't move the ball or stop the opponent. Then move the ball and fumble at the opponent 10 as your going down to win. Another senario, can't do anything right at all and get blown out of the building. Whatever you call won't work. It's as if the system says the score of this game is going to be 31-21 and there is nothing you can do about it. You get your 21 points early then the system says that's it.

I loved the original NFL Head Coach game I own it on PS2 and PC I played it for hours and hoursonce I heard about this sequel I was alittle worried about how it would be could it top NFL Head Coach. It did in my opinion its really more detailed. Of course it has its flaws like any other game (Glitches and such) but I LOVE this game I bought it here on Amazon back in Feb. of 2011 and I just recently got it back out to play and fell in love with it again....A fan of the first Head Coach? get this one its AWESOME

Playing for several hours a day, a season should take you a couple weeks minimum. This is not an action filled game. While there are some flaws, you definitely get a feeling of accomplishment after putting together the right team and going on an extended winning streak without cheating. This is especially true if you start with a bad team, like I did with the 49ers. I almost got fired in my first season, but I saved it by winning a couple games at the end and finishing the otherwise disappointing season with some flair. Don't get discouraged. This is an addicting game if you give it a chance.

Great game, wish they were remaking for new gen console.

Franchise Mode

Great

Got here fast. Game worked. Thanks!

Tipp:Oft das Spiel speichern den durch den 2009 Jahrgang stürtzt das Spiel manchmal ab.Versand und Zustand waren sehr zufriedend stellend

Falls over all the time, typical EA product!!!!