WE ARE FOOTBALL Reviews

Sorry but I've given this about 10 hours now. This is just a bad game. We are Football is this combination of things that are too easy and things that are too complicated. Not "difficult" complicated but just made unnecessarily complicated by the interface and the utter lack of information that's given you. So first it's easy to get players via transfer that are far better than anyone on your squad. The game itself isn't hard to win at, which I can live with. Sometimes I don't want to play a game that stresses me out. Sometimes I want to play a simple game where I win most of the time and pound the opposition senseless once I've built my team up. It's the lack of info and extra clicking that gets me. The interface is such that you can miss important things because they're buried under a mass of buttons. The game would have been better served using drop down menus like OOTP Baseball, but they chose instead to use a 1990's style interface where you have to kind of dig down. Sometimes the information itself isn't clear. You look at a player's position and go, "DF... ok, I guess that's a universal defender? I've seen that abbreviation and it means that in other games."... no, it's a defensive forward. You're told Team Spirit is vitally important but there's nothing in the instructions at all that breaks down why you're getting certain minuses and pluses. I win more than I lose, and with a weak team at that, but my team spirit is at absolute rock bottom and all my players hate me. Why? No idea. There's nothing that tells you why. The feedback I get when I talk to my players is always positive. Just now, I won a game against my rivals 3-1 and my team spirit dropped as a result. Seriously, wtf? Is it bugged? No idea. I did a psychiatry evaluation on my team and found out I have 22 "difficult" players. Which ones? No idea. It won't tell you that, of course. Why on earth would I expect that, right? There's no way to look at the personality ratings and know what makes a difficult player. There's no events which hint at who has a bad personality and who doesn't. There's nothing which tells me what the relationships are between me and the player or a player and other players. So what's the point of the evaluation then? Why have personalities at all other than to troll me? Even the settings... you set your assistant manager to handle substitutions and the end of the game arrives and he made none and you get criticized for not making substitutions and you're like... Ok, I guess that doesn't mean what I think it meant. What it actually meant is, he's going to pick who your available substitutes are BEFORE the game, and then in game substitutes are handled by you. Actually I don't know. That's my guess. I'm just going to turn it off. In match you have no idea why you're doing poorly or well. You get a list of the form of each player in the game. As far as I can tell, that's completely random. You get no inkling of whether your strategy and formation is working or what effect it is having or if it makes any difference at all. I think *some* of the problems come from translation as this is aimed at a German audience first. They also make it harder than it is with poor interface design. I've owned a few THQ Nordic games and they're all like that. They're usually not bad games but they refuse to take UI design seriously and it sticks out in the modern era. That's some of the problem but the real issue is that this is simply not a very good game. It's the weakest game I've ever seen from Nordic. Oh, and they've also got this really weird obsession with climate change. So they've got all these different upgrades to your stadium to make you carbon neutral and you'll get in-game news posts telling you something like "The temperature of the Earth has risen by .1 degrees". Which OK, that's newsworthy in the real world but I am playing a sports simulation where I am the manager of a 4th division football club in Northern England. Should climate change really be a focus of the game? What's it doing in here? Even if somehow this is your game, the price is ridiculous for a game as simplistic as this one. Don't get it for less than 50% off even if you really want to try it. Honestly though, you don't really want to try this. Just stick to FM, or if you want something simple get Football, Tactics, and Glory.