From: tjg2946@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Subject: Re: Front Page Sports Football
Date: 9 Nov 92 02:07:05 GMT
Reply-To: tjg2946@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology

Okay, here is an exerpt from the Interactive Magazine:
Fall 1992
by Barbara Ray

o Front Page Sprots: Football allows you to 'fake' hand-offs and passes -
 whether or not this affects the opposition depens on their intelligence
 and discipline ratings.  If one of your opponents is particularly low
 on intelligence, you can successfully distract him with such a play.

o Choose your playing conditions:  stadiums can have either grass or artifical
 turf.  You can selecct weather by month, temperature, wind, humidity, and
 precipitation.  Play in the snow or mud and see the effects those
 conditions have on the players.  Factors like weather and humidity noticeably
 affect play in Front Play Sports: Football.  Players are more likely to be
 injured when it is very cold, and their energy ratings go down when the
 temperature and humidity are unusually high.

o View replays from nine different angles and view game highlights with a
 VCR interface that allows you to pause, fast forward and rewind!  You can
 even view the highlights for computer simulated games!

o In Front Page Sports: Football the football is affected by 'real' 
 physics, including gravity, air temperature, and humidity.

	We all know there are a lot of computer sport games out there.  In fact
sport products are some of the most popular computer games available.
Football in particular enjoys enormous popularity.  Because of this,
buying a computer football game is no easy task.  In fact, there are so
many choices it can be mind boggling.  Why then, you ask, would Dynamix be
making another football game to add to the long list of products already
in existence?
	Well, for starters this is no ordinary football game.  Front Page
Sports: Football has already been called more of a football 'simulation'
than a game by some of the leading designers in the field.  Sure a lot of
other companies have made football games, but until now, no one else has
ever produced a product that 'does it all' before.
	No other football game which offer you such ease of use conbined
with indepth statistics, comprehensive league play and mind-blowing
sound and graphics.  Because you select the level of control, Front
Page Sports: Football can fit the tastes of every football fan.  If
you are into management, league play, statistics and details, a simple
click of the mouse puts you in control of whatever elements you desire.
If you are not a stats buff but really live for the heart pounding
action of an arcade game, you can man the joystick and let the computer
handle the rest.  Front Page Sports: Football has been designed to offer
something to every level and type of player and it delivers on this 
promise with a vengeance.
* Dazzling Graphics and Animation
	The look fo the game is amazing relastic.  There aren't any blocky
little players lurching around the screen in Front Page Sports: Football.
The production team actually filmed real semi-pro football players in
action and animated the figures using a process that combines video
capture and electronic rotoscoping.  In Front Page Sports: Football, 
tackles look amazingly relastic because they are!  Players that eat
turf on the field don't just magically re-appear in the game moments
later (as they do in some other football games).  In Front Page Spots
(Sports Ooops): Football, you actually see the player getting back up 
after a tackle.  The arcade section alone in FSSF has over 1.8 megabytes
of animation and graphics; more than most other games include in their
entire product!
* League Play
	You have the option of playing in an 8, 10, 12, 18, or 28 team
league.  The advantage of the smaller league options is that when 
playing in a league with friends you don't have to play as many games
as against a computer opponent.
	Another unique feature of FPSF league play is that you can choose
to have leagues continue from season to season.  You can follow the
individual players' careers from the time they are drafted until they
retire.  You will even see the effects of aging and training on
their play from season to season (a player intelligence rating
could increase while his agility ratings decrease).  What's more, 
players can accumulate statistics for an entire career, not just
a single season.

(Sorry for cutting this article short but the rest discuss about
the wonderful Statistics (350 different catagories) and
Drafting and Training season (unlike most other games), Play Editor
(choose from 7 different type of blocking, multiple handoff, each
players function independently from each other (unlike other games).
200 plays are available which is probably used by many different
college coaches.  Like the 3-4 or the 4-3 plays, etc, and Rosters
which is 47 players with extras for injuries like the real time.  Others
offers something like 30 players. Pat Cook is the designer, and
Allen McPheeters is the Assistant Director.  Release Date is projected
to be in last month.  FPS: Baseball should be out next summer. Price
is $59.45.  To put my two cents in, I should check it out myself, but
unless it is majorly different and better than the others, I would not
pay 60 bucks for a football game, I would rather pay 60 bucks for Strike
Commander instead.)