Quote:After playing FOF8 for about a week, it has hooked me a bit.  You can actually participate in some scouting by selecting up to 12 college prospects to bring in for private interviews/workouts to get more info on them.  I also discovered that the trading and contract negotiation functions are a little more in depth than previously thought.  For instance, I reneged on a contract offer to my franchised star DT that he had accepted and then when I went back to offer him a deal again, I was told that he no longer had any interest in signing with my team due to "prior injustices."  So the game doesn't let you overshoot the contract offer and then scale it back to find the lowest agreeable price for the player.  You can scale the offer up incrementally, however.

 

For being a text and spreadsheet kind of game, I still think it's a little pricey at $30 but if you like the idea of being an armchair GM this game can provide you with that experience and I'm looking forward to playing it in multiplayer mode some day.