Draft Day Sports: Pro Football 2018

why is there no manual with this game?

Having played and loved the Football Manager series I was elated to find an NFL counterpart and was happy to pay the £25 in order to play it. However upon loading the game I instantly found it to be a dissappointment. The first problem I came across was how poorly designed the interface was. The appearance was very unprofessional with formatting errors everywhere. On the staff screen for instance the blank profile pictures were out of alignment with the text and covered the coaches details. Another example was the drop down boxes in the scouting screen covered the text for the projection filter and points remaining. The entire interface appeared either rushed or put together by someone who didn't take a lot of pride in their work. Another problem was how unintuative the game was to play. I had to create a practice save just in order to work out how the game actually worked and even after doing so still found the menus clunky and awkward which sapped all the fun out of the game. This, combined with the generally unprofessional appearance caused me to give up on the game after only an hour of trying, which is a shame as I did want to enjoy this game and feel that there is a great…

You can't play the game on the terrain, there are pins moving instead of human being. I don't man, maybe there is a market for those kind of (i don't play at all) games but for me it's a big NO NO.

If I could do a neutral, I would. But even with less than four hours of playtime (second game of preseason, did manual draft & free agency), it's clear the amount of work the devs have put into this so TU it is. What's also clear is this is still REALLY glitchy. Things like even with coin toss I had to kick off both halfs, missing in-game stats every other play (that was interesting), skipping plays (it'll perform the play but just in a blip, with no player input, and suddenly you're on the next down). Also, did I miss the play clock somewhere in the play select screen? If it's not there, definitely need one! Hard to keep track of (work) the clock, particularily in crunch time. All of this was while playing Seattle Owls. But good concept devs, just needs the usual polishing.

It's a solid simulator to pass the time.

There are a lot of improvements that could be made (option to decline penalties, seeing the final play of the quarter, fixing the glitch where if you defer to the second half you get the ball instead of kicking off at the beginning of each half) but for what I'm looking for (stats and game management) it's the best I've found.