Ooooo . . . that is a bit high. For that price, I kinda feel like I'd sooner just go ahead and get my Priced Madden on and get the Head Coach as a "added bonus".

But then again, I imagine the return rate of Head Coach to be generally high, since it isn't for everybody and not everyone gets that. I for see a used discount sometime in September.

<3 Tony Dungy

I don't have a problem with the guns in Bad Company. I think the method of getting the extra guns is fair (a little marketing thing or wait a few weeks/months). Fine. But games like this is why I hate EA. Not only do they release the same game every year, now they're taking features from said game and turning it into a full game? Really? I understand the re-releasing of Madden football every year (or at least before the internet on consoles), but really...a feature to a full game. No. I hate you EA.

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@Samit
I think what he means is it used to, and because of that, I hate EA. EA ruins everything they get and even though they put out some short OK games sometimes, they have really taken the gaming industry down a few notches. No bang for your buck with their games; rehashed same games; even the new BF3 is going to just be a remake of BF2 with "better graphics". The Sims and all their glorious expansions. EA knows how to make money and it's to market towards morons.

Head Coach 1 was a good idea plagued with a shit system. The load times were god awful, the time management system was way too rigid, and the flow of the game sometimes just didn't make sense. Not to mention, for me, it froze up sometimes on those loading screens. It was a hot mess and I soon lost intereste because of all the tedium and minutia, coupled with the horrible load times for everything.

My hope is that they saw that, aside from concept, there were a lot of implementation issues in the first run and are looking to correct that and give the series another try.

@BigPopa
My guess is that they see Football Manager games doing well in Europe along with the fact that so many people still get into fantasy football each year. I imagine they're trying to tap into and grow that market, considering they're piggy backing this with the collectors edition. Old heads/long time fans and big current fans will be all over the collector's edition. If they ever put Madden down long enough to actually try out headcoach, the hope is that they'll find some merit in it.

Though admittedly strange it is that it taps into the very same game/time pool that would likely spend hours playing through seasons of Madden. Come to think of it, this might be a great game to really push on the Wii. It requires far less dexterity than Madden, and might fit well with the alleged "casual" demographic . . .

The first game was awful and this is coming from a big time football guy. There was no strategy involved in this game it was just repetition. If you just practiced the same players and same play over and over again you could get the guy up into the 90s and just kill everyone. I won the freaking Super Bowl with Jets and went 14-2. If you want a real coaching sim check out Front Office Football on the PC. Soooo much better than this crap.