Franchise Hockey Manager 5

After spending 11 hours in two days, here are my thoughts: - Incredibly slow user interface (it feels like the UI shares thread with the logic) - Lists lose their sorted order when you go back a page - AI setup lines misses certain players and makes weird lines - Inconsistent menus (way too many clicks to get to certain pages) - Even when set at the fastest sim settings, the games take forever to simulate - The message system is really buggy and annoying - No native profile headshots, even though the game has the official NHL license - It feels like tactics don't really impact the outcome of games - $35 is a huge waste of money on this low quality product - Can't really find anything good about the game as it stands now Basically, get the latest roster updates for EHM instead, because it's better in every single aspect.

I have put around 500 hours into the FHM seriers on FHM 3 and FHM 4, i have lead teams on these games to NHL season with 70 + wins for 5 straight years so id like to think i know how to play. Let me start by saying like everyone else on here i do think that the UI has improved a lot this year, but the reason im giving this game a negative review is because of what they have taken out. You can now only assign one role to a player on your team, in old games when your players where 5v5 you would assign them an offensive role and a defensive role ex. On offence you could have the player be Screener and while said player was on Defence you could assign him the Backchecking Forward role. Now they have one role and you can set players Backcheacking tendencies to low,med or high.However my BIGGEST problem with the game is the fact you can no longer assign players separate roles for 5v5 ,PK or PP what that means is when you give a player a role EX.Sniper he has to use that role for 5v5 PP and P...

I spent 20 hours on this game and around 500 on the last game and its honelty a downgrade not rote the price that its at right now. Also its funny how most of the likes that this game has are from people that have nearly 300 hours in a game that came out 2 weeks ago cons -feels a lot slower then past games -cant see which players you have are playing international anymore so the preseason is like a game of clue -maybe this is just me but you dont have the face pictures anymore and when you trade or sign someone they keep the jersey from the past team -you cant see the the defense, offense etc or the stats anymore unless you go to your roaster,click on their name hich sends you to back to the top or have it on the hub heres the problem you cant do that if the player is in the draft or in free agency why cant we just hover over the player name like the last games??? - AI is still dumb i traded shea weber for the 1 overall pick in the draft with Viktor Arvidsson and Mattias Ekholm att...

Full of bugs, need to be mostly fixed to give a respectable gameplay. The interface is average, I see the potential but it's just not there yet. Not worth your money for the moment it's not as fluent as EHM for example. However main developper seems to be very active in steam / forums / etc. and I'm pretty sure this review could eventually change in a positive way. I Sure hope it was just a very early release and that the game will keep getting better !

Wanted to love this game, but just as unstable as FHM4 was, maybe worse. Game is more tedious, and randomly crashes in as little as a few minutes of play. Save your money.

Better than the two previous version and more importantly, the game doesn't crash consistently. The new layout is an upgrade from FHM4/3. I've always enjoyed the core concept of the game but have some recommendations for future improvements. - please add a filter option to better find trainers and assistant coaches. Pain in the ass looking for a trainer with a skill of 18+ - not sure if its my game but the playoff stats always show zero on the team stats screen - players will immediately drop 1/2-1 star after a trade, being picked up on free agency or being moved between the AHL/NHL. - include a hot button on the right side to easily get to your AHL/ECHL team. The previous versions used to have your minor league stats/records on the parent home page. After each day sims, the default screen should be a "GM" view of the entire organization. I have to click on 3-4 buttons to see my AHL teams stats/line combinations. Doesn't make managing each team very easy. - there is currently a glit...

I didn't feel like providing feedback, but the begging of (positive) reviews when starting the game changed my mind. The way to get positive reviews is to make a great game, not trying to get sympathy by stating you're a small studio. I bought this game in the hopes it would offer competition to the current leading title and especially its online-mode. Safe to say I was disappointed. The UI and logic are, with a few exceptions, awful. UI - It's slow. - It sometimes looks like a project a 1st year CS student made with the white background and no borders (Setting numbers and some others I don't remember) - Finding things is, at least personally, hard. - The Logic - Crashes happen way too often for a game at this price tag. - There is a "funny" bug when going to start screen from a game and then pressing previous on your mouse. - When trading, you need to have the team selected on the navigation tool as well to see the salary. - Sometimes the salary negotiations bug and you ...

Nothing special or super unique from past years. I still really dont like the interface compared to OOTP's baseball games and the fact there are no 3D games avaliable yet. Its still the only real hockey sim game avalaible so its tolerable if you love these kind of games.

for now i can't see how better this game is superior to Eastside hockey simulator. im only 5 hours in however,but there is some minor detail that make navigating throught the game a major nuisance. I'll update this review after further testing,but 5 hours in , and i still struggle with the UI. edit 6 : nah, that'S it. gave this game 6 hours, and if i could refund i would. Maybe the simulation aspect is nice, but that was a 6 pre season hours with restart to learn the game and painfull UI navigation. it all over the place, there is input lag, sometime the menu bar do not show up , no font size modifier (ehm also have this problem however). couldn't even try the Trade AI (which is the biggest weakness of EHM) to try to compare... No easy fantasy draft mode setup either. an overly complcated custom league exist however. staff assignation is a chore, and scouting take a while to get used to (and you don't want to scout player, it take soo long navigating through menu, it not fun ). i...

I really love the game since Im a hockey fanatic. The details within the game as far as player type, stats, players character and more are really great additions and creates more morale decisions when trading or cutting a player. The KHL player rights situation is kinda confusing atm as I havent figured out if I have to wait for their KHL contracts to be up or not. Now the reason why I wouldn't recommend the game is because of the offseason simulations. During the season it's not bad simulating day to day, but when the playoffs end the game takes forever simulating to either the draft or even a week for that matter. It literally took me a day to simulate past Year 1 offseason due to it being unresponsive and the occasion crashing. The game never crashed for me during the season but that offseason simulation annoys me and slows my gameplay. The only reason why I keep playing is because I love what they added to this game, but I know a lot of people that wont stick it out for that reas...