Franchise Hockey Manager 4

"Do you recommend this game?" NO, not at this price and not in it's current state. Do I like the game and see the potential? YES, this sim has a high ceiling and I hope and pray I can change this review to a thumbs up sooner than later. Seriously... when you are charging $35+ for a game, at least have some fundamental standard that you prioritize. I don't want to play a simulation game where basic things are broken like sorting on certain columns, or a back page function that doesn't remember your last configuration/filter. If simulation games 20-30 years older can do exactly what you're trying to do and have done it extremely well in the past, that should be the "standard" you try to at least reach before you present anything furthermore. Zero excuses in my opinion. Aside from the headscratching "Dev, why can't you not sleep just for a night and fix the most obvious unsightly detractions", this simulation is very rewarding and I am actually enjoying the brun...

Love the game, finally getting over the old tried but true East Side Hockey. Loads of improvements that help ease of life, good step in the right direction. It pains me that the sim speed has not been improved at all, as that is many peoples gripe, aswell as my own biggest. Almost to the point of making me not reccomend, but alas, enough other things have changed to make that silly. Great game overall, definitly taking steps in the right direction. If the sim speed is improved in patches, it will easily overtake EHM and become my favorite hockey manager on the market!

Not right now. Not in it's current form. Way too sloppy, way too many errors. And under polished. If you want to support sports management sims, by all means. But OOTP needs to stop pricing this as a finished product and take a deep look at themselves, and decide whether they want this to be a money grab, or actually grow a fan base. I own FHM 1 through 4.

"Very disappointing. I had high hopes, but it seems like they're cashing in on name and reputation, with a horribly unfinished product. Even in the interface is lacking some of the basic functionality that should be directly transferable from OOTP." That was my review of FHM2. While some of the most egregious issues have been addressed, FHM4 is a disappointment nonetheless. The interface is still vastly inferior to OOTP baseball, highly cumbersome in some areas, and lacking basic functionality that should be obvious for a franchise management sports sim. I won't "throw this one away" like I did FHM2, but it will be buried on the shelf for a while to see if any improvements are made. FHM4 feels like a $10 "early access" title, not a $40 final product.

I have played quite a few hockey manager games, but FHM4 has really stood out as a drastic improvement, making it the best hockey manager game out there currently. The multiple gamemodes and historical accuracy in this game are amazing, especially the historical challenges. I took on the 1969-1970 Bruins challenge to win 3 Stanley Cups by 1978 which I achieved by being graiced upon by the hockey gods to have a moderately-healthy Bobby Orr throughout his entire career (he retired at 32 still, lol). Overall this game is very enjoyable and the NHL licensing makes it that much better/immersive, FHM4 will improve year after year and will keep evolving to an even greater hockey manager.

Wow, so I'm 90+ hours into this game, and I guess after this much time, I should give it a thumbs up. But there are still a lot of issues with this game. It's certainly not worth full price. Here's hoping future editions clean up all the bugs? ------------------------------------------------------------------- The Good ------------------------------------------------------------------- It's a pretty good hockey simulation. You get the chance to be the GM and Manager of a Pro Hockey team, and the player ratings seem to be mostly up-to-date. And you can modify the ratings if you don't agree, or if a player ends up developing into a Superstar and you want to mirror that. It's basically OOTP but Hockey. ------------------------------------------------------------------- The Bad ------------------------------------------------------------------- Apparently, from reading other reviews, if you try to do a lot of custom stuff, the game gets unstable fast. For me, I have only encountered...

A 2017 game, CPU intensive, USES ONLY ONE CPU THREAD!! SO SLLLOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW Not much has really changed since FHM2, FMH3. It still poor at showing data. You would think people who create data sims would at least display the data in different ways to help manage our teams. They have the data within the sim and yet we get the same spread sheet that fans can get about their favourite hockey player. They are still in a huge need for a Data Scientist to help them display their data better. There is no quick graphs of how a player is playing over time, you just have to remember numbers. Make a change and see if it has any effects? Remember number that as the season progresses change less (as the data gets lost in the sample size).

Since the last version of this title that I played (v2 iirc) its turned the corner from "too rough" to "a few rough edges that don't detract too much from a great game". The rough edges are stuff like your team's name not being highlighted in lists or on the sim screen, mac gestures not working, and the menu's taking some getting used to which all in all reminds me of mid-early OOTP releases. My other minor quibble is speed but I'm playing on a very underpowered machine (old MBA) so that's no biggy, and its perfectly stable, no crashes. Really this just makes it a perfect game for playing along with while watching TV etc. Even as a casual hockey fan the game is extremely engaging and immersive. The tactical roles and strategy system in general really clicks for me. Again there are some minor UI issues here when trying to build from scratch, but having your assistant recommend things works great and again is pretty similar to how I manage thing in OOTP. Highly recommend!

Love the game for sure, but very disappointed paying 37 EUR for a game, which crashes from time to time and dosn't have the basic things fixed. At this stage, i wouldn't recommend buying it and would just like my money back :D

Finally a hockey simulation that gets it right! I am simply overwhelmed at all this game has to offer. If you love hockey, I mean really love hockey; this game should be in your possession right now! I want to write a long review and explain all the improvements made from previous versions and how much better this game is compared to eastside hockey, but I want to get back to playing. I may edit this review later when I have more time but for now, this is nearly perfect for me. It is by far the best sports game on the market!!! Thank you developers, job well done! UPDATED Review: I've logged over 220 hours now so i figured i would update my review since first purchasing the game. The game is awesome, period! The game has never crashed for me, leads me to believe it is the hardware, not the software. You cannot go wrong with this purchase, replayabilty and depth of managing, easily makes it well worth the money. I enjoy starting unemployed and working my way up to the pros. But it is ...