This is a game that tells a story, but is also a strategy game. You take on the role of Rocco Galliano the manager of the Calchester Assembled Football Club and your task is to bring the club back into shape and, if possible, to make profits.
The game, whose football season lasts 18 weeks, essentially follows a regular sequence:
- Conversation with one of several characters from the game, initially with the manager's cat
- Selection of team training for the week
-> The training influences different skills of the team
- the game against an opposing team
- Evaluation discussions with the press
In the course of the game, you get or win again and again cards that are important for the game. B. expand the skills of the team, such as with a hard attack in midfield.
Other cards represent trainer commands or fan calls, so the trainer or fans can shout things to the players to get them to play or just to motivate them. In this way, the soccer game can be actively influenced.
Since the soccer games and their outcome ultimately affect the whole game, how you go about it is important; this is where the strategy game in football drama shows up. Aggressive play with risky moves increases the stress level of the team. With passive play, the stress that your players are exposed to is reduced. The team can move forward and gain possession of the ball at high risk. B. possible to stop the opponent, but this then increases the risk that the opponent will get the ball back. Overall, the stress level should not exceed 50%, as only passive measures are then possible.
Also important in Football Drama are the conversations with the characters that are queued after every football game and appear again and again in between, such as B. the one with the President Aluminowitsch, the THIEFA boss Splatter or Monica, the President's wife who makes you beautiful eyes. Each one repeatedly confronts you with decisions that have an impact on the game.
Not to be forgotten are a lot of fun aspects in the game such as: B. the objections of the game commentator and the light humor that is contained in the names of the clubs and associations that appear and that brings funny allusions with it.
Music & Sound: The feeling of a game is conveyed well by the chants of the fans, the vuvuzelas and the audible kicks against the leather.
Graphics: A beautiful graphic with hand-drawn images and figures. Overall, the game has a comic look.
And finally ... Football Drama is one of the quieter games and a game for in between. It is recommended for football lovers and people who like to play manager games.
- Release date: September 18, 2019
- Developer: Open Lab Games & Demigiant
- Development division: Indipendent
- Publisher: Open Lab Games
- Platforms: PC, Nintendo Switch, iOS, Android
- Minimum requirements for the PC:
Operating system: | from Windows 7 | from Mac OS X 10.9 |
Processor: | 1,8 GHz (Intel 2 cores) | 1,8 GHz (Intel 2 cores) |
Random access memory: | 2 GB | 1GB |
Storage space: | 500 MB | 500 MB |
Graphic card: | GeForceGo 7600 (128MB) | GeForceGo 7600 (128MB) |
- Other: 8 languages