Decent Game. Ran a league with a buddy of mine on this.
The main idea behind is that it is a 4v4 online Football Game. You have 8 downs in total to travel the distance of the field. The game times are approximately 1 min and 15 seconds, which seems like no time at all, and in fairness, if you are looking for a simulation type football game, this is not what you are looking for.
WhatDecent Game. Ran a league with a buddy of mine on this.
The main idea behind is that it is a 4v4 online Football Game. You have 8 downs in total to travel the distance of the field. The game times are approximately 1 min and 15 seconds, which seems like no time at all, and in fairness, if you are looking for a simulation type football game, this is not what you are looking for.
What killed it for me was the community as well as the overpowered cards that you have to obtain. The reason the community killed it for me is because when you are choosing offensive plays, they do not change a lot, and some members of the community have memorized the plays to the point where they know exactly what routes are being run, and they will stand on the dot of where the ball will be thrown to, before you even get there.
The way that the game is set up is that you can earn players through events such as tournaments or competitions. The problem is that when you attempt to engage in these events, unless you are playing this game non-stop during the event or you create a superteam, you have little to no chance.
They implemented a marketplace, which is similar to Madden, however, it is a Web3 game and it revolves around NFTs. The marketplace is a good idea, and you can sell or buy player cards with actual money or bitcoin. The issue is that some people price their cards at roughly $500 or more, and they think that someone will actually buy this. But anyway, each to their own, if they see the value in it and it's fun for them, more power to them.
The developers are nice and try to be engaging with the community.
So now you're probably wondering why I gave the game a 1 out of 10 right?
Well, the rating is about the game itself. Not the community. And not about the developers and how nice they are. It's important to understand context when reviewing a game and I feel a lot of people just give it a 10 to hype this game up when in reality, the game lacks depth, and after being available for approximately 9 months, it is still "early access"?
They mentioned they will add something called "Franchise" where you have to pay to own your own team and have enough cards available for a squad of let's say 8-10 players. So in essence, if you want to own a Franchise, you better be prepared to spend some money if you want to enjoy this game.
At the moment, the player base is not big enough to support this game. The average queue time to get into a game is 5-10 mins and that is during the high times between 5pm-11pm EST. If you want to play during the day or early on the weekend, I hope you are prepared to wait maybe 2-3 hours to get into a game.
This game needs a lot of work. In my honest opinion, there are many other Football Games out there that are better and have a better community than this game.
List of Better Football Games:
- Tecmo Bowl (Yes, the NES version)
- Maximum Football 2023
- ESG Football (upcoming)
- Sunday Rivals
- Every Madden Game out there (not a high bar)
- NFL 2k2
- NFL 2k3
- NFL 2k4
- NFL 2k5… Expand