Football Superstar: US Edition

So, far and away this game is great. The ability to slowly progress through the years is really fun, the lack of a wiki is kind of irritating but also nice to figure out what works and what doesn’t, and I can see myself playing this game for a long time. Seriously, I should probably delete this game because it’s a little too addicting.The asterisk is expectations. Do NOT go into this game expecting to be a start NFL QB for ten years and retire a hall of famer. The game balance is too slow for that to be possible without ponying up some cash to either inject in-game cash or resetting your age to 18 at the end of your career. That said, treat it like a progression game where the goal would be to make it to the NFL before you retire or to tear it up in D2 forever. For the devs, it would be nice to have different starting scenarios in the paid game - like an easy, medium, hard type of thing. I get you want money, but I spent money on the game and would like to enjoy the NFL portion without constantly dumping money on this every month (which I won’t).

So let me break this game down for those of you willing to give it a try. To unlock the full game it costs $1.99 or you have to wait 4 hours on occasion for a new season. This game has no adds and is totally simulated as you build your position. At the start you pick your nationality, position, choose your name, and your top three stats. I would recommend stats the boost your position/ stats you can’t upgrade after a game. That will make more sense when you play. So basically this game isn’t 4 years of college then pro it’s more divided into levels as you build. You can be 35 and still play for college, also there is no pro draft. Your career stats constantly carry over. So there is the NFL, 1-A, 1-AA, Divison 2, and Divison 3. You will start at 5* and try to build your way up to 100*. You will also start in Divison 3 and work your way to the pros. The goal is to build your stats as you go with money you can make. So you can buy houses, business, and build your contract for money. Money is what you use to upgrade your stats. All in all it’s fun I just wish there was more consistently to your game stats one game you will put out some insane stats then next game be an average player. You will spend hours on this once addicted enjoy. I would also give this like a 4.7/5 but I rounded up.

I’m pretty deep into this game and spent about $25 on it and enjoy it but there’s a few pretty big flaws. This cost to upgrade abilities is way too expensive. Even at lvl 90 in the nfl with many businesses and sponsorships and my largest contract my revenue stream is too low to consistently upgrade my abilities, and I have no training staff. But the biggest issue, and one that almost makes me want to quit playing, is your coding for win/loss outcome. It’s been the same teams winning every year from all levels of college to the nfl. This is beyond frustrating. No matter how good you are as a player, if you aren’t on that team you won’t win. And they never fall off, they just keep getting new, young, great players. Just the nfl for example. I’m pretty positive you just took the playoff teams from last year and put in for them to always win. It’s the same teams every year. I’m not exaggerating. Baltimore has won almost every Super Bowl. With the chiefs, packers, and saints each getting one or two. And that’s over the course of 25ish years because I bought the .99 cent thing to restart as an 18 year old when I turned 37. Please you have to change this. It’s literally not a fun game when you never have a chance to win. Also, add an option to restart as an 18 year old from d3 in college and keep stats for .99 cents if you do change this, as I would like to go back and actually make the playoffs and win some titles maybe. Since I only made the playoffs one time in all levels of college and only once so far as a pro, because again, same teams always win. Please fix this.