I Played the New Maximum Football Game...

I played the new Maximum Football beta from Maximum Games, formerly Modus Games. It's a free to play "community driven simulation football sandbox".

Not to be confused with the old Doug Flutie's Maximum Football. That team is now making Varsity, a high school game.

00:00 - Maximum Football's History
05:36 - Beta Impressions

[SOFTDRINKTV]

Do you guys prefer no background music and just my voice, like in this video here, or do you guys prefer the videos with background music? Just curious.

[ThreeEyedPea]

What we need to realize is that making a sim football game, or really any sim sports game, is VERY difficult.

[TBR]

Just to clarify here - Varsity is not made by the same team as the old maximum football at all. Old maximum football was created by one developer David Winters. Spear was a publisher, not a developer. Source is me, I’m a developer on Varsity 😁 - just wanted to clear this up!

[gswxdylan]

Maximum Football will also be on Xbox One and PS4, it was confirmed by the director in a discord call yesterday

[onin]

With College Football 25 not coming to PC, I don’t think this game is destined to fail. Well as long as they continue to polish it.

[Onyx]

I think we’ve gotten used to AAA “betas” so getting an actual playtesting beta is a little jarring. I think I had the same experience playing as you did. Very hopeful to see this game grow into a very good game.

[Nedmac]

Like we’ve been saying has a ton of potential. Now that we have have it, they definitely need to tweak it to make it playable. I think ncaa 14 has better gameplay than this. In which that game is very outdated. Ton of potential, needs updates.

[Alan_Mch]

I DO have a positive I want to add here. It's a small detail that was not talked about in the video. But I noticed it, and it made me smile : the camera flashes from the stands. It was SO cool to see that added in for an extra layer of emersion. And a reminder of era gone by that I long for to come back : cameras flashing at live sporting events from the stands. Makes the event feel so much bigger and makes it feel more important. Maximum Games? I say thank you for that small detail.

Now if you excuse me, I have a game to install and test myself.

[dylanmoore]

Free to play makes it a no brainer to try it.

[JuanMunoz-ielr]

Competition is the best way for sports games to improve in many of the areas they've been lacking in recent times. After all, sports in general are supposed to be competitive as teams, coaches and athletes are constantly going toe to toe to be the best. So why can't sports video games do the same?

[jaredmcgehee]

Hit the nail on the head. It looks incredible and they have a great foundation to work off of. One thing I loved about gameplay is that user DB movement and play is the closest to reality that we’ve EVER gotten. I’d love to see them bring in some coaches and players to help with the AI and in-game schemes (or to add a create-a-play). If they stick with this it’ll be an absolute market changer a year or two down the line 🔥

[Otakudamus]

It looks like it has potential. Just needs polish and a brand behind it like the UFL. That could actually work since they’re upcoming too.

[KidTonyGaming]

The Dougie Floutie name wasn't meant to be a flex, it was clever marketing. The dev were originally looking at Joe Montana for the namesake, seeing as they didn't have a pro license attached to the game. The addition of Canadian rules and total shift to Canadian Football first lead many to believe they were attempting to grab a CFL license, when that also fell threw, they contacted Doug, a CFL legend, to be the namesake for the same reasons they wanted Montana. They were trying to sell as many copies as possible.

[John_R_Jackson_III]

Cannot wait till you drop the College Football 25 Review. I’m waiting patiently..

[ghostpodgameing]

It's weird seeing maximum football, Axis football from being a flash game to 3D game and all these indy games. I remember when gridiron champion creators scammed everyone crazy times we came from.

Also them Gameloft games back then they was on a generation run 🔥

[Underhownd]

UE5 clearly holds its own in giving the look of a good sim football game. If the devs can just figure out the gameplay and physics, this game could go far.

[GageRyanVideo]

Playing the beta for just a couple games, I was very impressed. A lot of your criticisms are valid (juking/spinning don't work, scrambling is too easy, holes in the line don't open, etc). But I gotta say, I enjoyed the gameplay more than I've enjoyed any Madden the last...decade?

It needs a lot of work, but as long as it has a franchise mode (which it will) and gameplay updates (which it hopefully will), I'll play Maximum over Madden any day of the week.

Hopefully I'll see some of you on the servers!

[PaulGaither]

The idea of a high school football sim sounds exciting to me. I loved playing the High School Playoffs in NCAA Campus Legend mode, and a game dedicated to HS ball could be lot of fun if done well.

[moorebounce]

I've been playing the open beta and remember the old maximum football videos and it does play better than I though it would. They need to remap the ball carrier layout so you don't need three hands to perform some of the moves. They need to work on player response. Especially the ball carriers and defensive linemen. Collision detection needs to be worked on. Like you said the running game is a toss up. I know on one play I just knew I was going to get a good run and I purposely ran towards a receiver blocking a defender so they could be in the way of another free defender trying to ran down my running back. That defender ran through those 2 players like they weren't even there and he tackled my running back. I stopped playing Madden when 2K football came out on the Dreamcast so you can call me a 2K fanboy all you want. I played the first Madden on the Xbox 360 for 2 days turned around and got screwed out of $40 by Gamestop. I really think they're making this free to play so it will cut down on some of the criticism it will surely get. Right as a 2K fan something is almost better than nothing. I refuse to play Madden. Unlike most people I do vote with my pocket.

[brady_w]

no way, somebody else played the old gameloft nfl games! i think the 2011 iteration was my first ever football game!