[That Guy]

You can play the ENTIRE game in windowed mode, which is awesome. now I can watch TV or read webpages while idling fooling around. quicker load times than madden too, but that may be due to lower res textures or whatnot for this demo; the GFX in this are noticeable less than in madden 06 (PC) though. However, the animations are more important and they're pretty solid.

The music, instead of a modern soudtrack, usses the NFL band exclusively. Since everyone's heard them on SB replays and various NFL shows, it's a decent fit.

after finishing the demo, I think NFL coach is alright. You don't play at all though, you just call the plays. its a nice change of pace and more strategy based... great for people that just aren't that good at madden too. Its more fun than sitting through simmed games in franchise and I like it.


for the offseason, you have a calender with daily tasks and such. you can look up your coach stats (legend ranking, trust, job security, OL, DL, etc) and talk to the owner, position coaches, et al.

You have no control over scouting directors, but you deal with the rest of the staff, other teams' GMs and players' agents directly as well as acting as a GM yourself.

I hate the offseason roster/depth chart menus though. they've redone them so you can only see five stats from a single player at a time (instead of 20 stats or so on 25+ players at once).


The Draft:
They got Kiper! and not only that, he's not even doing the retared generic-speak but being very specific about the (2006) draft. that's a plus. The menus are terrible though. I couldn't find a draft list besides the little scroller thing and everything player related has switched from lists to icons (which take up a lot of space while conveying almost no information).

for something so menu driven, you figure they'd at least get that part right. instead the took what madden is pretty decent at and replace all the menus with terrible clumsy icon based monstrosities.