Maximum Football Trailer, Screenshots, Features & More Revealed - Coming This Spring, Free to Play

[Kanobi]

Modus Games has revealed their first look at Maximum Football today with a new trailer, screenshots,...

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[GlennN]

Looks great! I am confused how this will be free-to-play? For the single player franchise/dynasty thing? How will they make money?

[wreckem27]

Damn that looks great.

[CM Hooe]

Unreal Engine 5 is a great choice for powering the graphics, the canned cutscenes are animated nicely, and the customization suite looks fairly impressive.

The actual football that happens once the ball is snapped (in the very limited football gameplay that is shown off in this sizzle reel)? It reminds me of Madden 06 on the XBOX 360. In particular, the ball carrier looks very slide-y.

More importantly, for a game advertising itself as "simulation football", this first trailer is also executing plenty of football concepts fundamentally wrong. I do not see any double-team blocking whatsoever. Wide receiver route stems have no relation to the quarterback pass drop; at 0:23 the quarterback has finished a five-step drop and is cocking his arm to throw, but his receivers haven't even cleared the line of scrimmage to release into their routes. This play is somehow a completion to the tight end. Same play, I also can't remember ever seeing an offensive tackle block a defensive end heads-up following a five-step drop.

At 0:55, I have no idea what the cornerback is doing; he's presumably playing the flat in spot-drop Cover 2, but it doesn't look like he has an animation to flip his hips and turn, so he has to run in a circle to play the ball and takes himself well out of the play. The same-side safety on the same play isn't splitting 1 and 2 and is otherwise way too narrow if he's supposed to be playing deep half.

It's free, so sure I'll try it. I enjoy games which enable user expression through customization. But I will be keeping my expectations low.

[Kanobi]

Quote: Originally Posted by wreckem27

Damn that looks great.

Yeah, pretty impressive for whatever the amount of manpower they have available as I'm sure it's a relatively small development team. Looks like they have a good foundation in place, graphically and animation-wise, from which to build on going forward.

[tril]

looks amazing.

I looked at the specs, you'll need a very recent computer to play. it also doesnt list AMD, its only intel chip.

[kingsofthevalley]

Looks like they have a very solid foundation. However, I can't regress back to the stiff turn on a dime movement that we suffered through for the last decade with Madden. Once they get that corrected, I'll definitely check this out. I'm curious as to how they have what looks like a very capable physics engine but the player direction change (referencing the foot planting and weight shifting) is non existent?

[CM Hooe]

Quote: Originally Posted by tril

looks amazing. I looked at the specs, you'll need a very recent computer to play. it also doesnt list AMD, its only intel chip.

Unreal Engine 5 games run on both Intel and AMD processors.