Seit dem 24. November 2016 ist der Nachfolger des Vorzeige American Football Managers von Solecismic, Front Office Football Seven, eben, Front Office Football Eight, zu haben.
Front Office Football Eight wird ausschließlich über die Steam-Platform erhältlich sein.
Aktueller Preis: 27,99 EUR.
Da u. a. die akzeptable KI des Vorgängers weiter verbessert wurde, sollten sich Football Fans die Sache mal "ansehen".
Die wichtigsten Neuerung in der Version 8:
The new version of Front Office Football includes dozens of new features, designed to enhance your simulation experience. This is our most ambitious new product to date, and you'll find it a much more realistic professional football experience. The new game features the following:
• Custom offensive playbooks. Each year, during training camp, you can create a book of up to 200 offensive plays to use during the season. Of course, as with all the management features in Front Office Football, the game's AI can create a playbook specifically for your team if you like.
• New player participation charts. You can select your starters based on personnel groupings. This gives you much more control over who is on the field in every situation.
• More realistic game planning. Rather than filling out extensive charts, you can write scripts for the plays your team will run in every situation. Create a list of plays for use in the Two-Minute Drill. Save your best plays for those critical third-and-three situations. This is much closer to how professional teams handle in-game play-calling. On defense, your plan will cover how you react to what your opponent is doing. You'll have fewer choices to make, but the choices will have a big impact on performance.
• Instant history (or at least history created as quickly as your computer can run). At the press of a button, you can generate up to 50 seasons of "history" for your league, with the AI running every team.
• Enhanced Multi-Player Support. A fuller set of options for maintaining your multi-player games. Additional security features to prevent "hacked" stage files and file compression to shorten load times and reduce the FTP space needed to run a game.
• New player cards with quick access to all the information available about each athlete.
• Create graphs showing how many wins each franchise has over any time period in your league to highlight potential dynasties.
• A playoff probability simulator so that late in the season you can determine each team's chances of reaching the playoffs or gaining a first-round bye.
• A brand new menu interface. Front Office Football will never be the prettiest game in the world, but the the new menu will quickly get you any place in the game.
• Interface improvements. Switch between using various screens within the game. You can even take advantage of multiple monitors and have all sorts of varied information available at once. Front Office Football has always been about displaying as much information as possible.
• Sports Radio. Are there any quarterback controversies in the league? If so, you'll find them here, and that may explain a team's current difficulties.
• Quote of the Day. Every day, you can read a quote from the vast store of collected wisdom within the Front Office Football universe.
• Many other internal changes. Little was left untouched. As always, the long-term value of Front Office Football is the simulation itself. Much of development includes continued refining of the statistical engine, as well as continuing to improve the game's AI so that you can have a competitive single-player experience. This is the heart of the Front Office Football experience.
