Quick Hit Football Overview
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Over the past couple of months I’ve been following the development of Quick Hit Football. This is a completely free PC game played within the browser. It is a management/coaching sim rather than a game you actively play and through performance can earn points to be spent on improving the players.
Most interestingly of the early news on the game is that the rosters are not completely generic. Due to a loophole in the NFL exclusive license contract, Quick Hit has been able to sign a handful of active NFL players to be included. Ray Lewis, Matt Cassel, Brian Westbrook, Jason Witten, and Osi Umenyiora will find themselves on one of the five teams that make up the single-player experience.
Each team will also have a former NFL coach to help lead them. Bill Cowher, Brian Billick, Jimmy Johnson, Dan Reeves, and Tom Landry are the five that have signed on.
Earlier today Quick Hit announced the signing of “nearly 100″ NFL legends. Included in the list are Steve Largent, Warren Moon, Tony Dorsett, Dan Fouts, Deacon Jones, and Randy White. The players will be separated into three classifications based on when their careers took place. Those classifications are “Pioneers”, “Classics” (70s-80s), and “Contemporary”. No other details on how they will be integrated into the game however.
This is a pretty intriguing concept and delivery method and one that seems more inviting that the overwhelming nature of the NFL Head Coach offerings. Most importantly is the commitment and dedication that is being put into this. Signing all those big names to be a part of the game is clear evidence of that. Interestingly the team working on Quick Hit includes former Madden, All-Pro Football, and NFL 2K5 developers.
Quick Hit Football is expected to launch in early October and you can sign up to receive a beta key on the website now.
September 17, 2009 at 6:14 pm
GO CANES
September 17, 2009 at 6:24 pm
This will be an epic fail. Sorry, just don't see how this will compete with the current choices of football video games. Even for those that are still stuck in the "2K5 is the best football game ever!" will not care about this soon to be failure. The best they can hope for is to offer new ideas that people like that will go into a future Madden. But as far as it succeeding, don't see it. I'm a huge football fan and I have no interest.
Why doesn't someone just update Front Office Football or Total Pro Football? Those were awesome online text based games. I could see one of these succeeding with a update including the graphics used for this game.
Anyway, just my opinion.
Peace out
September 17, 2009 at 7:08 pm
Why does it have to be considered competition? Free, browser based play puts it on its own. It doesn't have to be choosing to play Madden or this.
September 17, 2009 at 8:48 pm
I know they don't think they are competing with Madden. But they are competing with the gaming time of football fans, and a lot of them play Madden. Just being free isn't going to keep people playing. I just don't see what will attract any gamer to this other than it being free.
And I've played my share of PC text based sports sims and this graphic based sim just doesn't look like anything special. At least from what I've read so far. It's FREE, It's FREE, It's FREE!, just doesn't excite me, because in the end you will have to pay if you want to succeed in the game for sure.
Peace
September 17, 2009 at 7:49 pm
This game is in no way expecting to compete with Madden or anything on the console. It isn't even designed for the same general demographic. Failure or success isn't always determined by millions of dollars in revenue and global recognition. This is probably run by either just one person or a very small team. Think about OOTP baseball. That was started, and still mostly maintained, by just one guy. You mentioned FOF and Total Pro..same deal, so why the cynicism? I wish the creators of this endeavor the best of luck. I'm certainly curious and am going to look into it.
September 17, 2009 at 7:51 pm
This game is in no way expecting to compete with Madden or anything on the console. It isn't even designed for the same general demographic. Failure or success isn't always determined by millions of dollars in revenue and global recognition. This is probably run by either just one person or a very small team. Think about OOTP baseball. That was started, and still mostly maintained, by just one guy…from Germany no less. If you saw a baseball text game just coming to market being made by one guy from Germany what chance would you have given that? You mentioned FOF and Total Pro..same deal, so why the cynicism? I wish the creators of this endeavor the best of luck. I'm certainly curious and am going to look into it.
September 17, 2009 at 8:29 pm
Well, the fact that they are signing on some pretty big names makes me believe this is not just one person. And I'm sorry, but no one does anything for free. They will need to be successful and have a lot of people playing so they can produce some kind of ad revenue or "micro transaction" revenue in order to succeed.
And I'm sorry for having an opinion and not thinking it will be a success. And it is designed for people that love football, and people that love football and play video games play Madden for the most part, so that is their compeition, like it or not. When someone sits down to play a football game, and they already own Madden, this game is going to have to have something other than just being free to attract players and keep them playing or not choosing to just play Madden.
That's all I'm saying.
Peace
September 19, 2009 at 12:35 pm
How can you be so sure this will be an epic fail?
Just because you are a huge football fan and have no interest in this game (which I think is because you are hardcore Madden lover), it doesn't mean other 'huge' football fans or even 'naive' football fans would not like this game.
This game didn't even launch to the public yet.
Hey, I'll try ANYTHING for free, and it is free to download and play (at least for now), and a LOT of people signed up for this Quick Hit. Those naive or new football fans who are afraid of spending 40-50-60 dollars of money for Madden might learn football playing this game.
Also, this game is more like NFL Head Coach rather than Madden, so don't worry about it stealing Madden fans. We will still play Madden, but we might also play this as well.
Also, I think signing big name former players is because it needs some kind of visibility.
Give some time and see. Don't just assume it will fail without even seeing how the game will play out.
September 17, 2009 at 12:46 pm
Tom Landry wouldn’t be caught dead…..oops
September 17, 2009 at 7:48 pm
How did they get Landry to sign on? Seance?
September 17, 2009 at 8:07 pm
Pasta never misses a chance to take a shot at Head Coach
September 17, 2009 at 8:42 pm
Quick Hit is stupid…waste of time
September 18, 2009 at 1:01 am
what is the registration code?
September 18, 2009 at 6:07 am
Did you guys forget its free? so stop complaining! its free!
September 18, 2009 at 12:40 pm
I'm addicted to Goal Line Blitz right now, (Online football MMORPG), so I'm really excited for this. Has anyone received a key yet? I was wondering how long they take to be e-mailed.
September 18, 2009 at 6:29 pm
I have a level 31 MLB in Goal Line Blitz, and it's been interesting putting his attributes together. The problem with GLB, though, is the game engine is HORRIBLY broken. I mean really, the scores are ridiculous. My team will win one game, like 120 to 3, then lose the next game 85-0. That's incredibly out of whack! Hopefully they'll get it straightened out soon.
October 1, 2009 at 10:38 pm
how do you get the regestration code
November 11, 2009 at 6:25 pm
i play quickhit it's free and it's fun. it's not madden but it's fun
November 11, 2009 at 6:25 pm
2 mintues
November 11, 2009 at 6:26 pm
only bad thing is some people quit when they are about to lose