MicroLeague Football: The Coach’s Challenge

MicroLeague Football: The Coach’s Challenge description

The first part of the famous series of football simulators; it was later released expanded edition (Pro-version), and then followed by a sequel with a sequence number of 2.

In MicroLeague Football you take on the role of the coach, and to control the movement of players directly will not work. But otherwise granted considerable freedom: we are free to choose from a good number of offered (as well as to find an opponent), to determine its composition and tactics for the next match (denoting its offensive and defensive units). Please note that the team's nominal "owners" field is always located on the right side and "guests" on the left. Unfortunately, the only mode - a sort of "quick match" in other sports games (the seasons were in the form of a Supplement, sold separately, and was added in the reincarnation games).

During the match you can select the athletes and order them to perform certain actions (for example, to give someone a pass), change the global strategy team (with defense to attack and Vice versa), and track their health status and the quality of the game, with the ability to produce a replacement for those who have suffered an injury or just bad play (both spontaneously and your skill is not affected). Allowed to change tactical formation to take breaks during the match (three times in the first half), and also - in the main menu to change the duration of the designated time and choose between three variants of weather conditions. Finally, play is permitted not only to "normal", but on "expert" level, which does not display any additional options; also there is a special variant of the game called "Quick Play" that starts the minute the fight without graphics.

Be sure to mention that the matches, of course, pass on more or less the real rules of American football, to describe which there is neither possible nor necessary. In practice, this translates into not very intuitive and quite "detailed" management system with lots of available orders (different types of strokes and movements, for example) and, respectively, the keys involved. Fortunately, this game on our website is provided with a full set of accompanying documentation, the preliminary examination which is critical to achieve at least some success.

From the point of view of graphics MicroLeaque Football looks great and will surely delight every fan of good old games: a little bit tacky, but somehow painfully native sprites athletes fun run on the field (though not without shadows), fall, collide, throwing a ball from one end of the stadium to another; however, an exciting confrontation of the matter (literally) is interrupted by the need to give new orders, but that this game never arcade, namely, that a sports simulator though not particularly challenging, if a little to get comfortable. In light of the tremendous rarity - to mid-July of 2018, this, the very first version was missing on the Internet in principle - this thing is quite possible to recommend to all fans of computer football, if such are found in our area.

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Source: Archive.org, Mobygames.com