Football Mogul

Rating:
Summary: Mediocraty reigns supreme
Review: Football Mogul is an average football game at best. While it has redeeming value in simulation. The gameplay can only be described as Icky. The graphics are poor and the controls are difficult. If you are just looking for a football sim this game might be a good buy, but if you have a hankerin for game play spend your money elsewhere.

Rating:
Summary: Mediocraty reigns supreme
Review: Football Mogul is an average football game at best. While it has redeeming value in simulation. The gameplay can only be described as Icky. The graphics are poor and the controls are difficult. If you are just looking for a football sim this game might be a good buy, but if you have a hankerin for game play spend your money elsewhere.

Rating:
Summary: A Lot of Fun!
Review: In Football Mogul, you get the chance to own and control your own football team. The fun of this game doesn't come from great graphics or game play. It all comes from stats and financial decisions. It is great to start a new team and build them to a contender. It could take 3-5 years or as little as one. That is part of the fun! You can trade players, release them, draft, bench, promote and more. If you like stat based sports games, this is the one to have. Now, if it would only keep more detailed historical stats of your players, it would be complete...

Rating:
Summary: Great "nuts and bolts" game
Review: Like its companion "Baseball Mogul," Football Mogul is a game based in strategy and team-building rather than the rock 'em, sock 'em action of most games.

You must not only keep your team playing well on the field, but must also make strategic business decisions that influence the team - do you sign the big-time free agent for megabucks and take a financial loss, or do you pray to land him via the draft? Do you even keep your draft picks, or trade them away for the established star? Do you raise ticket prices (and potentially alienate your fan base)? And what do you spend to keep your players healthy and on the gridiron? All these questions - and others - play a large role in the game.

Football Mogul is a fabulous game if you were a fan of text-based simulations, and I'd recommend it. But if you're looking for a Madden-like experience, this one's not for you.

Rating:
Summary: Great "nuts and bolts" game
Review: Like its companion "Baseball Mogul," Football Mogul is a game based in strategy and team-building rather than the rock 'em, sock 'em action of most games.

You must not only keep your team playing well on the field, but must also make strategic business decisions that influence the team - do you sign the big-time free agent for megabucks and take a financial loss, or do you pray to land him via the draft? Do you even keep your draft picks, or trade them away for the established star? Do you raise ticket prices (and potentially alienate your fan base)? And what do you spend to keep your players healthy and on the gridiron? All these questions - and others - play a large role in the game.

Football Mogul is a fabulous game if you were a fan of text-based simulations, and I'd recommend it. But if you're looking for a Madden-like experience, this one's not for you.

Rating:
Summary: Fun For Real Fans
Review: There are many people out there that consider themselves REAL football fans. You know the ones. The ones who sit and can tell you everything about a player/team. This is the game for them. There is no gameplay. You don't get on the field but in the leather armchair as the general manager for your own football team. Draft, release, sign, and change players. Create your own expansion team (trust me though, it's hard!) or start with an already made team. This game does not have the NFL liscense so before you play you have to enter in all the team's nicknames. It's already got all the real NFL cities, New England, Buffalo, St Louis, Green Bay, ect. So if you wanted a NFL game, just enter in all the real nicknames. The players all have the same initials as the real players but can't have the same names (ex. Dick Brewer= Drew Bledsoe). This game WILL NOT be fun for people that are just, well, followers. The people that watch the games but don't pay attention to stats, standings, and such. But if you are a true fan this game will keep you in front of your computer til you win the Super Bowl. It automatically sims games for you and gives you play by play which is a cool option. So it creates a .txt file like:

1st Quarter: 10:39- Brewer incomplete pass to Gary.

Like you're listening to the radio on games and stuff. Really nice. And it's very unpredictable. You could draft the best player in the draft but some other player could do 10x better which helps with the replay factor. You pick how much tickets are, how much beer and hot dogs are, how much souveneirs are, how much you spend on recruiting, and how much you spend on your trainors which affects how long your players stay out when injured. A very in depth game that is worth of 5 stars and the [money] for all TRUE FANS.....

Rating:
Summary: Fun For Real Fans
Review: There are many people out there that consider themselves REAL football fans. You know the ones. The ones who sit and can tell you everything about a player/team. This is the game for them. There is no gameplay. You don't get on the field but in the leather armchair as the general manager for your own football team. Draft, release, sign, and change players. Create your own expansion team (trust me though, it's hard!) or start with an already made team. This game does not have the NFL liscense so before you play you have to enter in all the team's nicknames. It's already got all the real NFL cities, New England, Buffalo, St Louis, Green Bay, ect. So if you wanted a NFL game, just enter in all the real nicknames. The players all have the same initials as the real players but can't have the same names (ex. Dick Brewer= Drew Bledsoe). This game WILL NOT be fun for people that are just, well, followers. The people that watch the games but don't pay attention to stats, standings, and such. But if you are a true fan this game will keep you in front of your computer til you win the Super Bowl. It automatically sims games for you and gives you play by play which is a cool option. So it creates a .txt file like:

1st Quarter: 10:39- Brewer incomplete pass to Gary.

Like you're listening to the radio on games and stuff. Really nice. And it's very unpredictable. You could draft the best player in the draft but some other player could do 10x better which helps with the replay factor. You pick how much tickets are, how much beer and hot dogs are, how much souveneirs are, how much you spend on recruiting, and how much you spend on your trainors which affects how long your players stay out when injured. A very in depth game that is worth of 5 stars and the [money] for all TRUE FANS.....