If you’re in a 3-4 watching for a pass and you blitz five, you better hope somebody makes it to the quarterback - or, as in real football, you’ll get burnt to a crisp with a skeleton secondary. There are also buttons to Blitz All or Blitz None. You control each non-lineman player individually and whether they blitz or not. The defense you choose also dictates how many blitzes you can run on a specific play. There are seven line shifts, ranging from ‘normal’ to even Stunts - provided you’re not in a 3-4, of course. You have a choice of the three basic coverages: Man-to-Man, 2-Deep or 3-Deep Zones. Whether you play at the Basic setting or the Expert level, you get to witness what all the gears in the background are churning out.Īnd there are a lot of mechanisms at work. This is made by one guy (Kerry Batts) so it’s not * cough * that conglomerate’s level of graphics, but the gameplay and play-calling are superior, in my opinion. You run (or simulate) every play and there are a locker-load of spreadsheets, but the information/outcome you’re given after each play is text - so you must use your imagination and ‘see it in your head’. The hardcore games like the Front Office Football series, while great, are text-only. People (like myself) have been extremely limited throughout the last ten years (at least) for an in-depth and actually visual pro football game. Not only that, it was years ago.įly route to 2018 and he’s now made Pro Strategy Football 2019. I spent hundreds, if not thousands, of hours playing it. Kerry Batts, the brilliance behind PSF 2019, actually built that game - while working with Tom Landry! Growing up in Texas, and being a life-long, die-hard Cowboys fan, I probably would have passed out just meeting Tom Landry - much less actually working with him on a game.

My first ‘real’ PC football game was Tom Landry Strategy Football, for my Amiga 1200. More on the massive customization abilities later. Being a yuuuge NFL fanatic, I immediately started setting the game up to be as NFL as possible. However, Pro Strategy Football 2019 is light years ahead of that ancient, basic game. Pro Strategy Football 2019 is an in-depth, visual representation of American Football.Īt an initial, cursory glance at the players on the field, someone might instantly be transported back in time to memories of Tecmo Bowl.

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