Release your inner Landry with football strategy game Frozen Endzone
Posted: Fri Nov 08, 2013 8:52 pm
Frozen Endzone, the American football-based strategy game from Frozen Synapse dev Mode 7, is limbering up for a public beta later this month. The beta will feature "several multiplayer modes," with purchasers receiving the full game when it releases and a free game code to give to a friend.
It's been some eight months since Mode 7 announced Endzone, and the switch from tactical shooting to tactical sports still seems a strange one to me. Or at least it would, except after talking with Endzone creator Ian Hardingham at a recent UK expo, it's hard to imagine his next game being anything but a celebration of pigskin. When you mention football to Brits like myself, you'll typically lose us to talk of spheres, nets, and penalty areas. Not Hardingham, though.
"I just fell in love with American football about ten years ago," he told me. "It's so exotic, it's so tactical. I love how everything is cast off into these individual plays, and you can spend forever really analyzing each play.
"The way that Americans throw everything into their sports, I find that relaxing. It makes me forget about the horrible things that are going on in the real world."
Hardingham talked plenty and passionately about his love and knowledge of the sport, something I don't share as a fan of the other type of football. But for all his fondness for Super Bowls and NFL Sundays (is that right?), his simultaneous turn-based strategy game isn't intended to be a detailed reflection of the real-life sport.
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/>It's been some eight months since Mode 7 announced Endzone, and the switch from tactical shooting to tactical sports still seems a strange one to me. Or at least it would, except after talking with Endzone creator Ian Hardingham at a recent UK expo, it's hard to imagine his next game being anything but a celebration of pigskin. When you mention football to Brits like myself, you'll typically lose us to talk of spheres, nets, and penalty areas. Not Hardingham, though.
"I just fell in love with American football about ten years ago," he told me. "It's so exotic, it's so tactical. I love how everything is cast off into these individual plays, and you can spend forever really analyzing each play.
"The way that Americans throw everything into their sports, I find that relaxing. It makes me forget about the horrible things that are going on in the real world."
Hardingham talked plenty and passionately about his love and knowledge of the sport, something I don't share as a fan of the other type of football. But for all his fondness for Super Bowls and NFL Sundays (is that right?), his simultaneous turn-based strategy game isn't intended to be a detailed reflection of the real-life sport.
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