THIS GAME IS REALLY GOOD
"BUY THIS! NOT MADDEN!" - AngryJoeShow
Legend Bowl brings you back to the glory days of pixel style football games of the past! Enjoy a hybrid of arcade-style football and simulation aspects on and off the field. Fully customize players and teams to create an endless am...
Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10, 2.0 GHz Dual Core Processor, 2 GB RAM, GeForce 8800 or equivalent...
介绍
THIS GAME IS REALLY GOOD
"BUY THIS! NOT MADDEN!" - AngryJoeShow
Legend Bowl brings you back to the glory days of pixel style football games of the past! Enjoy a hybrid of arcade-style football and simulation aspects on and off the field. Fully customize players and teams to create an endless amount of variety in your league. Sim-based controls with challenging gameplay mechanics bring the fight to your doorstep! Legend Bowl includes Exhibition Mode, Tournament Mode, Franchise Mode, Training Camp Mode, and a boat load of customization options.
EXHIBITION MODE
Play an exhibition match with any of the 32 teams in the league. Here you can pick up and play against the computer or a friend to see who can beat each other and get all the bragging rights!
FRANCHISE MODE
Select your favorite team and play through an infinite number of seasons to see if you can win the Legend Bowl! You'll start off by selecting your favorite team and creating your very own coach or choose from an existing coach from the league. From there you'll play a full 17 week schedule, complete with player wire events, player and team stats, weekly wrap up news, and more to keep you engaged along the way.
Player traits are a major factor in how they play each week and you'll have to manage the chemistry of your team to keep you in the winner's circle. There's also a complete off season where you'll take your team through retirements, free agency, player progression, and a full 7 round draft. The goal is to have a deep and immersive Franchise mode where you can have endless hours of fun and challenge!
TOURNAMENT MODE
Take your team through a bracket style tournament tree to see if you can become a legendary squad! There are 16 teams in total and you must beat your bracket each week to get to the final championship game. Do you have what it takes to win it all?
TRAINING CAMP MODE
Take on special drills to earn unlockable items and practice until your thumbs get sore! This mode is a sandbox where you can hone in on your skills and practice plays with your favorite teams.
CUSTOMIZATIONS
Are you the creative type? Well look no further! In Legend Bowl, you'll be able to fully customize players, coaches, and teams to recreate your very own league. Choose from a variety of hairstyles, faces, visors, earrings, hats, headbands, gloves, and more to build as unique of a roster as you can dream up. This is one of the main pillars of our game and we can't wait to see what the community brings to the table!
REALISTIC WEATHER
Weather is key to any football game, so why not in Legend Bowl? Play in clear, cloudy, rain, and snow types of weather. Be careful not to get struck by lightning! There's also a Day time cycle lighting system so you can feel the heat on the field.
PRESENTATION
On the field stat overlays, halftime stats, end of game stats, field art, live referees, chain gang, mascots, advertisements, fans and more get you immersed in the game and bring the action to your screen!
HYBRID ARCADE & SIM-STYLE FOOTBALL ACTION
Travel to the golden era of sports games when you had fun mixed with realistic gameplay. Customize your rosters and build a legendary team using speed, agility, acceleration, and more to battle your way through the gridiron!
ON THE FIELD
Player movement is a mix between simulation and arcade based mechanics. Momentum and weight help to make your players "feel" alive! A unique throwing mechanic allows you to control the ball and give your receivers the best chance to catch the ball!
RETRO PIXELATED GRAPHICS
Experience timeless pixelated graphics and fully customizable player faces, hair, helmets, hats, visors, facial hair, equipment, and more! The customization options are endless and make for a unique artstyle!
RETRO CHIPTUNE SOUNDTRACK
Listen to classic chiptune music that make you feel like you're back in the arcade with your friends.
For the best experience a gamepad is highly recommended (e.g. Steam Controller, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Playstation + many others will work with emulation) - The game can also be played with only a keyboard in single player mode. A controller is required in order to play local multiplayer.
This is not a negative review, although i understand why you my think that from the title. I haven't put a lot of time into the game, but the game play seems fun enough, fun, retro based graphics and animations, and the ability to customize almost everything should give those looking for a good football game a lot of hours of play time.
The reason why I'm a disappointed customer is the Franchise mode. I'm an Arm Chair GM and that is the biggest reason i play sports games. When i saw that this had an endless Franchise mode (and the fact that it was 20% off) I got excited and i bought the game. The problem is that the Franchise mode is somewhat barebones. No big Free Agent pool to pick from, no in depth contract negotiations, no trading for a player you covet or extra draft picks. Every week from week 4 until 12, a player wire pops up, says one of your players wants a raise, you can either accept (you get 3 a season) or refuse, in which case he gets traded for a random player from a random team of the same position but lesser rating (and sometimes there isn't anyone from your team). Once in a while, you get an offer for a player another team wants to trade to you and you can pick which player (of that same position) you want to send back.
In the off season, for Free Agency, it gives you 3 players and you have to choose which one to drop in which case you receive a random player of the same position of lesser skill from a random team. Then it tells you of a random player another team has dropped and if you want to pick him up and which player (of the same position) to drop.
During the full 7 round draft, you pick a player, and then you have to pick which player of the same position you want to drop.
So, good game, shallow Franchise. If Franchise isn't your thing, this review may not even affect you, but if you are after an in depth Franchise mode, you may want to skip this, at least for now, they may update and expand Franchise mode in the future.
If you remember Techmo Bowl you'll love this. I got it on Steam so I might as well get it here as well. Where this game really shines is the feel of football (not to mention the NFL mod). Sure, you can play the vanilla (stock) teams but most of us want the NFL feel. If I can install it, anyone can. But it's also fun playing a created team, going in with no preconceived ideas of how it SHOULD play out. You can do roster changes/moves, draft, etc, just like the "other" game, only better.
The Devoper is VERY passionate about his game (and that's a good thing), and listens to the public. This game, IMO, will stick around for a long time mostly because the developer has more upgrades on the way, not to mention, a growing fan-base.
Gameplay/Graphics:
Gameplay is where it's at. No Madden riff-raff. You all know what I mean. The meat and potatoes is all I want. Everybody is so enraptured with 4K graphics, and whine that this game is pixels. That's how it was designed. The peeps that complain are the same peeps who are enslaved with "that other game."
Amusing to no end.
Here's my fave feature: The Franchise mode
It was originally slated for sometime down the road but we got a surprise when King Javo (developer) announced Franchise mode would be released. Uhhhh.....okay. Apparently it was under wraps for a while.....well,....I can now play my fave team for 100+ years if I wanted to. Yes, it's unlimited AFAIK.
Some pointers:
I would suggest you go through the tutorial FIRST. Trust me, the kicking aspect is brutal. It's all about timing. So do yourself a favor...do the tutorial. I can't emphasize that enough. A hope for a non-windy day. :)
Conclusion:
I could go on and on but I'll sum it up here: Buy it, if you're tired of the Big Boy BS. When Tiburon left the Madden title....so did I. I don't need all the off-field drama and eye-candy junk. I want gameplay. Yes, GAMEPLAY. And this game has it.
A tremendously fun 11 on 11 gridiron football experience. There's real depth to the on-field gameplay! Much more than the charming retro aesthetic would imply. The franchise mode is quite streamlined, but allows for a very immersive management experience with emergent stories for all the players and teams. Loads of customization and stat tracking will keep you interested for season after season. Amazing that only 1 developer put this together, and it only falls short in very tiny specific ways (no pass interference or fake kicks for example) Nothing else has scratched my digital football itch like this in many many years.
The retro aesthetic belies an incredibly deep gameplay mechanic. it's not easy at first, but eventually you'll get a feel for it. The amount of team & player customization is wild. Franchise Mode will keep you busy for a long time. There's no DLC or any of EA's BS money grabbing schemes. The fact that Legend Bowl was developed by ONE guy, and the effort you see when you play this says a lot. You see the money on the screen, as they say. He deeply cares about this project, and is very active in the player community. He listens to feedback, and makes changes as needed. Once you get the hang of it, you may never go back to Madden. Buy this now. It's worth it at full price.
Best football sim i have played in years. However support on GOG is poor and the game download is outdated as of this writing. Have posted the issue in the forum and the developers you tube channel with no response
