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Bugs throw NFL Head Coach for a loss

Gamers expecting NFL Head Coach to be the coaches' version of Madden NFL 07 will be disappointed.

The popular Madden franchise has had more than a decade of refinements and improvements, whereas NFL Head Coach looks like a work in progress.

Gamers expect a polished product from Electronic Arts Inc., but this isn't one of them.

NFL Head Coach, which sells for about $39.95, has a lot of bugs -- more than I can write about. The most annoying was when the game froze and I had to reset my PlayStation 2 console. This often happened during the preseason. I kept the autosave feature "on" even though it took more than a minute to save.

The career mode takes up the bulk of the playing time. Your ...

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