A throwback to the classic 8-bit and 16-bit football games of the past, Legend Bowl offers some of the deepest simulation elements seen within the genre, and is absolutely packed to the brim with features. Hailed as the spiritual successor to Tecmo Bowl, Legend Bowl's release mixtures both retro and modern football sensibilities, making it THE game to play for those who need to scratch the itch for deeply detailed simulation gameplay.
Legend Bowl is the genre defining challenger to the staples of gridiron sports games. After an arduous multi-year long porting process, which involved deep enterprise-level collaboration between Top Hat Studios, Inc., and YoYoGames to make radical core improvements to GMS2, the game's underlying engine, Legend Bowl delivers a smooth, native gameplay experience
Legend Bowl's flagship mode is a fully fledged Frachise mode, which gives players the feeling of being in the coach's seat they've been craving for. Create your own coach (or choose one from the league), pick one of the 32 unique teams to champion, and then take them through successive, complete, 17 week schedules. Manage your stadium facilities, team rosters and player's needs, and face the grilling of the press on the news wire. There's also a complete off season where you'll take your team through retirements, free agency, player progression, and a full 7 round draft, Legend Bowl puts you into the center of the action, and you'll need to manage the chemistry of your roster and players to build a legendary team. And as a living, breathing franchise... the actions of other teams will matter, too...
Regardless of mode, player control and customization is key. In Legend Bowl, you'll be able to fully customize players, coaches, and teams to create your very own dream league. Choose from a variety of hairstyles, faces, visors, earrings, hats, headbands, gloves, and more to build as unique of a roster as you can dream up. When it comes to attention to detail, nothing's spared. Realistic weather, complete with a time cycle lighting system, makes you feel the chill or heat on the field. Clear, cloudy, rain or snow, you'll have to brave it all. On the field stat overlays, halftime stats, end of game stats, field art, live referees, chain gang, mascots, advertisements, fans and more get you immersed in the game and put you in the stadium!
For more drop-in style play, exhibition mode allows you to simply select any 2 teams, and face them off as either Human vs CPU, Human vs Human, or just watch sparks fly as CPU vs CPU! Play with up to 4 players locally. There's also bracket style tournaments, where 16 teams try to finish at the top. Momentum and weight makes you feel the impact of every tackle, fumble, or kick, and brings the battle on the gridiron alive. Carefully balanced to have the optimal mix of arcade style fun with realistic/sim gameplay mechanics, speed, agility, acceleration and more all come into play.
Commenting on the confirmation of Legend Bowl's release date for console, Top Hat Studios, Inc. Executive Producer Andy Andi Han said the following: "Legend Bowl has been one tough nut to crack. People think of pixel art and retro games as being things from an era where hardware power was limited, so shouldn't pose a problem today, but in the end the game took a monumental amount of work - totalling over 7 million lines of code to get it working and optimized on console, almost all of it contributed by our company CEO, Joseph Brown. There's been a lot of anticipation for Legend Bowl and we appreciate everyone's patience while we got the game into a good state, and we're pleased that people will be experiencing it soon".
Key Features:
- PLAY ANY POSITION - THE WAY YOU WANT + EVERY PLAY AND STRAT IN THE PLAYBOOK
- PLAY OFFENSE, PLAY DEFENSE, PLACE KICKS, PUNT, AND WAY MORE + KICKS, FUMBLES, AND INTERCEPTIONS
- MULTIPLAYER FOR YOU AND 3 FRIENDS + CHOOSE FROM FULL FRANCHISE MODE, TOURNAMENTS, OR EXHIBITION MATCHES
- REAL SIMULATED PHYSICS + REACTIVE CROWDS AND REFEREES
- REALISTIC WIND AND WEATHER EFFECTS + UNIQUE PLAYERS WITH INDIVIDUAL STATS, STRENGTHS, AND WEAKNESSES
- DEPTH CHARTS AND REPLAYS FOR THEORYCRAFTING
- CREATE YOUR PERFECT COACH! + TEAM UNIFORM EDITOR +FULL CUSTOMIZATION
- 32 TEAMS TO MAKE YOUR OWN + -SUPER VIBRANT PIXEL ART AND ANIMATIONS FOR ANY MOVE YOU MAKE
- A HALL OF FAME AND MILESTONES FOR YOUR ACCOMPLISHMENTS
- LIVE THROUGH A FLEDGING FRANCHISE! DRAFT YOUR DREAM TEAM OF UNIQUE PLAYERS
- FULL FRANCHISE AND TEAM MANAGEMENT LIKE THE REAL GAME + STADIUM AND FACILITIES MANAGER AND UPGRADES
- FULL SEASONS, LEAGUE SCHEDULES, ROSTERS, AND OFF-SEASONS + NEWS WIRE, RETIREMENTS, AND FREE AGENCY
Currently available for PC (Steam), Legend Bowl is coming to Nintendo Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S on August 9, 2023.
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