NFL Head Coach 09 Video Preview

[Steve_OS]

GameSpot has posted their NFL Head Coach 09 video preview.

[DannyMac910]

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Damn, I thought this was coming out in April!

[Flyermania]

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This game looks very interesting...hopefully it will be a vast improvement over the original. Thanks for the link!

[WDOgF0reL1fe]

I cant wait for this game. Im excited for the potential this game has

[A.M. Son]

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Yeah it looks much better than the previous attempt. I wonder how long it will be before they combine the Madden/ HC teams and make one "super game"? I know they said the code was independent of Madden, but wouldn't it be cool to have this functionality built into Madden?!!

[JBucc]

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The Fall???? I hope he meant summer.

[DLaren]

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I'm thinking that the "Q4 2008" release date that they're showing is incorrect. I can't see EA releasing this game after NCAA & Madden are on the shelves.

I'd expect it to be out no later than June and hopefully as early as late-April.

[Kanobi]

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At 2:58, there appears to be proof of AI sliders and other game setting options

[Flamehead]

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I found the developer's comments regarding not wanting to put out a product that's half-baked and unpolished interesting. Perhaps EA is starting to get a clue regarding their reputation of non-QA. Perhaps there's hope yet.

For me, I'd rather they wait a bit longer to release to get rid of the bugs instead of releasing sooner. This looks like it has the potential to be really good.

[bcruise]

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At 2:58, there appears to be proof of AI sliders and other game setting options

Man, I NEVER would have noticed that by myself...nice find. Hopefully it stays that way - it's still in development.

[Altimus]

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Damn, I thought this was coming out in April!

Q4 2008.

Think it would be best if this game out before Madden did during the off season with FA and drafting and all that.

[SPTO]

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The game looks pretty good from what little we saw. I wonder if this time we'll have more control of creating our own playbooks?

[Steelerfan2k1]

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Day one purchase for me. Did you see how they already had real college players in the draft?

That suggests to me that we will be able to import draft classes from NCAA (otherwise, someone would have had to have gone in and edited everything).

If that is the case, this is going to be a fabulous game.

The only thing is that I hope they change the draft classes in Madden/NCAA, as there aren't enough players at all of the positions.

[Kanobi]

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Did you see how they already had real college players in the draft?

That suggests to me that we will be able to import draft classes from NCAA (otherwise, someone would have had to have gone in and edited everything).

That's how it was in the original NFLHC where the first draft class had real-life prospects but all the following drafts featured preset, built-in classes with fictional players. I expect it'll be the same in HC '09.

[elifelldown]

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That's how it was in the original NFLHC where the first draft class had real-life prospects but all the following drafts featured preset, built-in classes with fictional players. I expect it'll be the same in HC '09.

that kind of sucks...how hard would it be to let us import classes from NCAA 09?