Contents Gameplay They're 3 types of gameplay available in Backyard football. The first one is a single game.
Football Roster Assistant is a free software program designed for football coaches of kid's football teams like Pee Wee football, Pop Warner, or city leagues. The main goal of the program is to allow the coach to plan rosters prior to the game.
A player picks the field they wish to play on, the weather type, those being sunny (the players run very fast on this terrain) rainy (the players run at a normal speed and the ball is very hard to throw) and snowy (players are slow). They then pick the difficuly between Easy, medium, or hard, and decide on weather they want the auto or manuel kick on. They then pick their team name, which is all of the current NFL teams, and 10 backyard teams.
They then take turns picking players with the CPU. There are a total of 7 players on a team, two will sit out for a play, while 5 get to see action. The stats of a player for a single game have no effect on a players season stats. The second type of gameplay is season mode. The player picks their home field, settings, and team before the season. They then are allowed to pick all seven of their players before the CPU can pick any for the rest of the league.
They then guide their team through a 14 game season, and if they are to win their division or be picked as the wild card, the team has a chance to compete in the playoffs. 8 teams compete to make it to the finals for a chance to win the 'Super Colossal Cerial Bowl.' The Third type of gameplay is. Backyard Football is the only game along with Backyard Baseball 2001 that offers online play with players across the globe. Online play is hosted through the Junior Sports Network, online play that is only available for Windows users, since the network system does not support macintosh. Since www.jrsn.com has been discontinued, no new coach names may be registered to play online.
While doing online play, the player may make contact with another coach online. They may then chat with each other with only pre-written dialogue, since the network is not being monitored to make sure no innapropriate language is used. Like Backyard Baseball 2001, there are 3 modes of difficulty. Easy, Medium, and Hard.
The harder the difficulty, the more likely the players out on the field are going to not make such magnificent plays to 'bail the coach out'. Stats The stats of a player are divided into 5 categories, each category offering a skill rating of 1 to 4, showing the players skill at a certain category. Catching: Shows the players catching skills.
A player with high catching skills is unlikely to drop an average pass, and will easily catch a lousy pass most of the time. Throwing: Judges this players skills of the length they can throw the football, the accuracy of the pass, and the height of the ball. Running: Shows the speed of the player, players with great speed have a better chance of being able to score a long rushing touchdown. Blocking: Shows the players ability to block a rushing player, or how strong the player is at rushing and knocking down another blocker.
A player with good blocking skills also will have a greater chance of forcing a fumble when tackling an opposing player. Kicking: Shows either the players power when delivering a kick, or accuracy when attempting a or (point after Touchdown.) Cheats There are 2 cheats that are accountable for Backyard Football. The first one is to hear (a -speaking player) speak in. Like in Backyard Baseball, Soccer and Baseball 2001, a player must hold shift and enter and click on Pablo's portrait to hear him talk in English. The other one is to have the player's team be the.
The Tackling Dummies are a team of Mr. Clanky and his practice bots used by a player when they perform a practice mode.
When entering a coach name, the player must enter the name in as 'Mr. After this, all of the league setup options and the team pickings are skipped, and the Tackling Dummies (a very solid team) are the player's team. Pro Kids There are 8 pro kids in Backyard Football. Here are their names and teams.
QB Minessota Vikings. QB Green Bay Packers. Miami QB Miami Dolphins. RB Detroit Lions.
QB San Francisco 49ers. QB New England Patriots. WR San Francisco 49ers. QB Denver Broncos References.
Written by: (1581) Written on: Jan 02, 2014 Platform: Windows Rating: of this game read more reviews SummaryA decent title, and one that's not a sell-out! The GoodContinuing on with my Backyard Sports series of reviews, Backyard Football is the third game in the series. Following the immense success that Backyard Soccer brought, Humongous got permission to use three major sports licenses: MLB, MLS, and the one for this game, NFL. According to the old Humongous site, before any of this happened, Basketball was planned on being the next title after Soccer, but that ultimately fell through when they couldn't acquire the NBA license. Point is, this is the first game in the series to bring a major sports license into the mix, but was it utilized well?
That's for you to find out. Once again, the game follows the same formula established in Backyard Baseball - pick a field, choose the game options, and draft your 7-player team. One cool bit is that you can actually change the weather of the game as well. If you want to play the game in the rain or snow, by all means, go for it, but it will realistically make the game harder as well.
New to this game (aside from the obvious addition of the professional league) is that you can now play with two players using a keyboard or a game controller for the second player. The mouse controls work great and are just as easy to use as they were before; click where you want your player to move or pass the ball. The keyboard and gamepad controls are unfortunately a bit wonky, as you can only move in eight directions (the mouse lets you move in any direction, essentially making it an analog controller). Passing is also a pain to do without the mouse; the 'pass' icon moves in the direction that you are moving, but it's made needlessly complicated with only eight directions to work with. The sequel fixed this, but since this isn't the sequel, it's an issue.
My recommendation is that if you're going to play with two players and you have a gamepad, don't let either one use the mouse or they'll have too much of an advantage. The seasons in this game are massively improved from the previous two games. The games all run at a reasonable length at only one minute per quarter, and the regular season consists of fourteen games. No division gimmickry, no needless padding, it's all short, sweet, and just the right length. A nifty feature in this game is the ability to make your own playbook. You get a lot of default plays if you're not the creative type, but you can also make your own plays if you so desire.
It's an easy to use editor, and although the default playbook is usually enough, if you aren't satisfied with it, you can change it to your heart's content. Okay, now for the elephant in the room - are the pros a good addition to the game? In some respects, yes. Unlike later on, the pros weren't milked for all they were worth. They were a selling point when the game first came out, don't get me wrong, but in later games it really felt like they were only there to sell more copies. Here, the pros actually blend with the Backyard kids really well - they have actual identities and feel like kids you could get to know. While they may not have the distinctive stereotypes that the Backyard kids do.well, except for Brett Favre who is depicted as a country boy in this game, they at least feel realistic and not just slapped in for a quick buck.
Aside from the pro players, all of the NFL teams are present here too - the Seattle Seahawks, the New England Patriots, the Tennessee Titans, they're all here. In case you liked the cartoony names that you could give teams before better, those are still here too. Even better, you can actually change the team name adjectives and their colors. For example, if you'd rather be an orange and blue version of the Mighty Saints instead of the typical gold and white New Orleans Saints, you can go on ahead and do that. It absolutely baffles me they got rid of this level of customization in future games; were the major leagues mad about this or something?
Regardless, this makes the game a whole lot more enjoyable to play, and I wish they weren't so carefree about the major licenses after this. The BadUnfortunately, the addition of the pro players are not without its issues. My absolute biggest complaint about the pros that existed from the minute they showed up is the fact that they're completely overpowered compared to the Backyard kids. This game is, unfortunately, not immune to that flaw - since most of the recognized players in the NFL are (shocker!) quarterbacks, almost all of them have higher throwing stats than anyone else. Barry Sanders and Steve Young also really break this game when it comes to speed, rivaling Pete Wheeler. The powerups in this game are a mixed bag. Most are pretty interesting, like the Hocus Pocus which poofs a wide receiver down the field out in the the open.
The Leap Frog can either work really well if there is virtually no defense in the field, or it can work against you when they're all far behind the line of scrimmage. However, the Chameleon powerup is undoubtedly the weakest. All it does is changes your teams uniforms to match the offense. Unless you are offense-defense blind, it does absolutely nothing to confuse you, and considering the AI is.well, perfect by its very nature, they sure as heck won't be confused.
And speaking of the AI.I won't say it's bad, but the difficulty setting in this game could really have used expansion. The only difference between Easy, Medium and Hard is the speed of the game. That's right, the Hard difficulty does absolutely nothing except speed up the game, and at a very negligible rate I might add. What kind of difficulty setting is that? The Bottom LineDespite its faults, Backyard Football is a solid entry into the series. I don't know if I enjoyed it as much as Baseball and I wouldn't rank it as one of my favorites in the series, but it's a good game and one I'd recommend giving a try.