NFL Head Coach 09 (Sony Playstation 3, 2008)

If you love to coach, you will love this game. It is a one of a kind game. There are several bugs in the game, but overall it is a good game. Another disagreement that I have with the game is there are no play audibles, and at the end of the second or fourth quarter the team automatically goes into hurry-up offense, which would be good except there are not audibles! so your team keeps running the same damn play over and over until you call a timeout. EA made many changes in this update. The 08 version was way to easy, if you practiced your team you would win every game. This game isn't anything like the old version. If your team sucks, and your players don't fit the organization, you will lose many games. The draft and FA bidding is superb. EA adopted an eBay style bidding system for FA contracts. I decided to buy this game because I was looking forward to improvements to the old version. I was pleased to find many improvements. EA totally revamped this game. I am looking forward to another version. I really hope EA will make another. If you are looking for a game that requires intelligence, and you like to coach, this game is for you. If you don't like to use your brain, and just want to beat cars with a baseball bat, buy GTA.

This is a decent game, perhaps for the price I paid it was worth it. I love the NFL but this game is played through the eyes of technicalities. The interactiveness (if that's a word) falls very short of stimulating. The graphics are what you would expect from EA SPORTS accurate and seamless, but the actual objective is not for me. I suppose if you were a "die-hard" football fan who didn't get enough out of playing as the team, in a regular football video game, you might enjoy it. Over all I rate it Ok.

I guess if your really into x's and o's... you'd like it... the off the field stuff is detailed but during the games its pretty much madden but only calling plays... and not playing... not very fun in the long run... its basicly what maddens franchise should be but playing on the field also

Love the control, financial impact each team has in unloading or trading star players. The office control is amazing, but the gameplay lacks.

My biggest peeve is the choice of camera angles. I prefer the coach angle (as seen last in NFL Head Coach 06). Just a ridiculous and shoddy selection, when the main purpose is coaching there should be an option for that ground angle from the sideline.

Very bizarre handling of the practice times as well. I again prefer the practices seen in NFL Head Coach 06, which were more hands on and allowed you to pick individual players to run particular plays repetitively.

It went beyond my expectations with the office and financial aspects of the game, but they really dropped the ball with the practice and gameday options.

You get exactly what the title says, to play as a head coach. In career mode, you handle everything from calling the plays (not playing it out like on Madden however), to working on contracts with players, hiring new coaches, scouting and drafting new players. Keeping your approval rating up sounds like a hard thing to do but is actually incredibly easy. Overall, a very fun game if you have the time to put in.