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Review: 'Head Coach' Is Work in Progress
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August 23, 2006
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Gamers expecting "NFL Head Coach" to be the coaches' version of "Madden NFL 07" will be disappointed. The popular Madden franchise has had over a decade of refinements and improvements, whereas the "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" (E-rated, $39.95 for PlayStation 2, Xbox and PCs) 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 PS2 console. This often happened during the preseason. I kept the autosave feature "on" even though it took over a minute to save.
The career mode takes up the bulk of the playing ...
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