There could have been so much more to this game and there could have been some less too, but what we got was something not quite adequate. Sure you can sit for hours and fly by the world of pretending to be a football manager, but truly realistic, it is not. Filling a game with unnecessarily tedious and redundant tasks does not make for a good simulation. There is room for much more strategy and real football related material. Had EA sports picked up the old front office football team and worked their idea into that classic game, it may have been a better fit, but they put that company out of business with their NFL license hording and did not make a decent replacement.
Having said that, I will play the next version because there are a lot of good things in the game too, and with enough time and improving, this could become a far better game. As a general rule it is best to not give up on a game that has a good idea in its first version, and this game has a good idea or two in it.
If you want to check this game out, I recommend waiting until it is a little cheaper and the experience will be far more worth it, paying $50 does not seem reasonable for something that feels very unfinished.
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