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Madden 2004 - Sim Franchise Owner?

Posted by simoniker on from the big-john-embiggens-us-all dept.

Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing to an extremely in-depth interview with Madden 2004 producer Jeremy Strauser, courtesy of Sports-gaming.com. One of the more interesting confirmations is of a new 'Owner Mode' for the seminal sports title, described as "....comprised of setting prices, staff, assistant coach, training staff, facilities, building a new stadium. All that has a symbiotic relationship with prices, attendance, performance, and wins and losses." Strauser even says that the programmers/testers "jokingly called the game 'Sim Owner'..", but it's clear the main concentration is still on the actual football, including making online play fairer.

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  1. EA Sports' track record not so good recently... by Primis · · Score: 2, Informative

    Wow, great! Owner Mode!

    I've only been playing games like this for years and years already, most of them text-based and many of them free.

    If EA handles hardcore management the way they've handled their "sports sims" over the last few years (the degredation of their NHL series in particular is sickening, considering how dead-on it used to be), I imagine they will turn off all kinds of people from managing sims for years and years to come.

    Here are some of the best-established sports management sims still out there (for those curious):

    EastSide Hockey Manager **http://eastside.peliplaneetta.net/**

    Front Office Football **http://www.solecismic.com/fof/index.html**

    Out of the Park Baseball **http://www.ootp4.com/**

    And of course the ever-revered Championship Manager series (fun fact, the man responsible for EastSide Hockey Manager is now working on a commaerical hockey manager product for the company that brought you Championship Manager).

    I always have infinitely more-fun with managerial sims than the normal mainstream action-based sports games, and hopefully there's enough of a base there to ensure there will be many management sims for years to come...

    -- Primis.