Front Office Football Seven Review (PC)

[Ben E Lou]

Re: Front Office Football Seven Review (PC)

I have some questions to any who have played this. Can you sim a full season and how long does that take? And how well does the computer take care of your team during the simmed season? Another question, how well does progression and regression along with retirement work, is it pretty well realistic to nfl/madden?

1. Yes, you can sim a full season. Simming straight through the Preseason, Regular Season, and Postseason games without stopping to look at any box scores/stats/etc. takes roughly 45 seconds on my machine (quad-core, 8GB RAM.)

2. The computer does a very solid job of handling your team in the simmed season. It may make some decisions that you wouldn't make, but they all seem to have a logical base.

3. Career arcs are very, very good. The developer adjusts those with every release (and sometimes even with free yearly roster updates when there's not a new release in a given fall) to match current NFL trends.

[chzblck]

Upset their demo did not work for me.

[conception]

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A player of several years here, I will likely buy the new version when the new graphical interface is added in. I would have bought it already, but I just got NCAA 14 to toy around with and I've re-discovered NFL Head Coach, so finding time for both is a real challenge as it is.

[rtkiii]

cant get this on steam?

[claystone]

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The online multi player is the best where you will coach against 31 other GM. Each league having their own website with stats, etc. No other football game ever gave me that experience. I've been playing this game for around 3 to 4 years.

here is a link to one of the leagues i'm in. You can see how its detail with stats.

http://108.59.255.76/~benelou/ffl/ben/teampage.php?teamid=26

[bblack1207]

Have Been Playing This Game For Years Now And Have Found It To Be Absolutely The Best. Have Also Bought Strat-o-matic Pro Football To Compare. Front Office Is Much Better, Strategically Dominant And Keeps You Interested.

[Ueauvan]

i love this iteration of the game. an updated 7.0a was released which fixed a couple of things and added some graphics. the user community produce graphics options and other helpful tools for players to download. i prefer that this was designed for 95 rather than 8.1.

it does what it says on the tin unlike Madden

[Crawdad7000]

great game. I had the original 1998 version and then 2004. Loved how you could replay the history of the NFL from 1960/1961 with real names on all the players. But now I own a MAC and FOF doesn't support anything but Windows. Too bad. The college game is pretty good as well.

[longranger]

Any for Mac users

[Epitaph77]

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Any for Mac users

Likely never going to happen. This was addressed in the dev Q&A

"[19:50] SOLECISMIC: Q: Will the new version be available for MAC?
[19:50] SOLECISMIC: Steve Jobs was a great innovator, but he made it very difficult for college kids who loved programming to get into Apple programming. That's why it's so hard to find native MAC software. FOF is a Windows product for now. If you can get it working using Wine or another emulator, that's great."

[nmain]

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Wish they would release 2007 for free or something.

[horrormaster]

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downloaded the trial, but how do you get the team names, logos, helmets, etc.? everything on the FOF site is for 2007.

[FBall Life]

Re: Front Office Football Seven Review (PC)

downloaded the trial, but how do you get the team names, logos, helmets, etc.? everything on the FOF site is for 2007.

Exactly the question I have lol

[horrormaster]

Re: Front Office Football Seven Review (PC)

Exactly the question I have lol

I just downloaded one of the 2007 ones and overwrote the files, then renamed the teams manually. Everything worked just fine at that point.


One thing I have to say, it's hard to get used to the player ratings. I'm used to Madden games where everybody is in high 60's or 70's. Doing an inaugural draft gets you a team with a lot of players with what would be seen as "crap" ratings.

[FBall Life]

Re: Front Office Football Seven Review (PC)

I just downloaded one of the 2007 ones and overwrote the files, then renamed the teams manually. Everything worked just fine at that point.


One thing I have to say, it's hard to get used to the player ratings. I'm used to Madden games where everybody is in high 60's or 70's. Doing an inaugural draft gets you a team with a lot of players with what would be seen as "crap" ratings.

Where are these files located to download?

And yeah, they definitely make use of the full 100-point scale.