{"id":331,"date":"2005-10-17T15:04:37","date_gmt":"2005-10-17T15:04:37","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-10-17T15:04:37","modified_gmt":"2005-10-17T15:04:37","slug":"new-management-football-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2005\/10\/17\/new-management-football-game\/","title":{"rendered":"New Management Football Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EA Sports (of all places) has announced a new management focused game called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.easports.com\/article.jsp?dcr=sports&id=nflhc\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.easports.com\/article.jsp?dcr=sports&amp;id=nflhc', 'NFL Head Coach');\">NFL Head Coach<\/a>.  The press release describes it as \u201cthe first 3-D sports strategy game.\u201d  Hmmm, what about their own FIFA Manager 06 and the entire Total Club Manager series?  Wasn\u2019t F1 Manager (another EA Sports game) 3-D or am I remembering incorrectly?   I guess EA Sports Europe doesn\u2019t count.<\/p>\n<p>The game is being developed by EA Tiburon (why don\u2019t they call this EA Orlando?), the fine folks that program the wonderful franchise mode in Madden.  Some day I will recount a conversation with a member of the Tiburon studio who had never heard of the (then) Championship Manager series of games.<\/p>\n<p>I have zero enthusiasm for this product.  Will take many, many positive reviews from people I trust before I\u2019d think about purchasing a management sim from EA Sports.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EA Sports (of all places) has announced a new management focused game called NFL Head Coach. The press release describes it as \u201cthe first 3-D sports strategy game.\u201d Hmmm, what about their own FIFA Manager 06 and the entire Total Club Manager series? Wasn\u2019t F1 Manager (another EA Sports game) 3-D or am I remembering &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2005\/10\/17\/new-management-football-game\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Management Football Game<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}