LEGEND BOWL, the definitive indie deep-simulation American Football game, has had its release date for all consoles - PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S and One, and Nintendo Switch - confirmed for August 9th, 2023 after much anticipation among sports and retro gaming fans alike. LEGEND BOWL offers some of the deepest simulation elements seen within the genre, and is absolutely packed to the brim with features. Hailed as the spiritual successor to Tecmo Bowl, LEGEND BOWL's heavily anticipated release mixtures both retro and modern football sensibilities, making it THE game to play for those who need to scratch the itch for deeply detailed simulation gameplay.
Publisher Top Hat Studios, Inc. alongside developer Super Pixel Games, have released a new trailer - featured above - in order to highlight what to expect from LEGEND BOWL on August 9th. Mirrors of this video will be published by PlayStation and Xbox throughout the day.
Commenting on the confirmation of LEGEND BOWL's release date for console, Top Hat Studios, Inc. Executive Producer Andy Andi Han said the following: "LEGEND BOWL has been one tough nut to crack. People think of pixel art and retro games as being things from an era where hardware power was limited, so shouldn't pose a problem today, but in the end the game took a monumental amount of work - totalling over 7 million lines of code to get it working and optimized on console, almost all of it contributed by our company CEO, Joseph Brown. There's been a lot of anticipation for LEGEND BOWL and we appreciate everyone's patience while we got the game into a good state, and we're pleased that people will be experiencing it soon".
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ABOUT LEGEND BOWL
Legend Bowl's flagship mode is a fully fledged FRANCHISE mode, which gives players the feeling of being in the coach's seat they've been craving for. Create your own coach (or choose one from the league), pick one of the 32 unique teams to champion, and then take them through successive, complete, 17 week schedules. Manage your stadium facilities, team rosters and player's needs, and face the grilling of the press on the news wire. There's also a complete off season where you'll take your team through retirements, free agency, player progression, and a full 7 round draft. Legend Bowl puts you into the center of the action, and you'll need to manage the chemistry of your roster and players to build a legendary team. And as a living, breathing franchise... the actions of other teams will matter, too...
Regardless of mode, player control and customization is key. In LEGEND BOWL, you'll be able to fully customize players, coaches, and teams to create your very own dream league. Choose from a variety of hairstyles, faces, visors, earrings, hats, headbands, gloves, and more to build as unique of a roster as you can dream up. When it comes to attention to detail, nothing's spared. Realistic weather, complete with a time cycle lighting system, makes you feel the chill or heat on the field. Clear, cloudy, rain or snow, you'll have to brave it all. On the field stat overlays, halftime stats, end of game stats, field art, live referees, chain gang, mascots, advertisements, fans and more get you immersed in the game and put you in the stadium!
For more drop-in style play, exhibition mode allows you to simply select any 2 teams, and face them off as either Human vs CPU, Human vs Human, or just watch sparks fly as CPU vs CPU! Play with up to 4 players locally. There's also bracket style tournaments, where 16 teams try to finish at the top. Momentum and weight makes you feel the impact of every tackle, fumble, or kick, and brings the battle on the gridiron alive. Carefully balanced to have the optimal mix of arcade style fun with realistic/sim gameplay mechanics, speed, agility, acceleration and more all come into play.
LINKS
https://nintendo.com/store/products/legend-bowl-switch
https://store.playstation.com/concept/10005987/
https://www.xbox.com/games/store/legend-bowl/9mvldwxsd4gw
Legend Bowl is originally developed by Super Pixel Games, and is ported and published to console platforms by Top Hat Studios, Inc.
Fun trivia:
After an arduous multi-year long porting process, which involved deep enterprise-level collaboration between Top Hat Studios, Inc., and YoYoGames to make radical core improvements to GMS2, the game's underlying engine, LEGEND BOWL's console version required the addition of 3 million lines of code and modifications to 4 million extra lines to make it compatible with modern console systems.
MAIN FEATURES IN SUMMARY
PLAY ANY POSITION - THE WAY YOU WANT + EVERY PLAY AND STRAT IN THE PLAYBOOK
PLAY OFFENSE, PLAY DEFENSE, PLACE KICKS, PUNT, AND WAY MORE + KICKS, FUMBLES, AND INTERCEPTIONS
MULTIPLAYER FOR YOU AND 3 FRIENDS + CHOOSE FROM FULL FRANCHISE MODE, TOURNAMENTS, OR EXHIBITION MATCHES
REAL SIMULATED PHYSICS + REACTIVE CROWDS AND REFEREES
REALISTIC WIND AND WEATHER EFFECTS + UNIQUE PLAYERS WITH INDIVIDUAL STATS, STRENGTHS, AND WEAKNESSES
DEPTH CHARTS AND REPLAYS FOR THEORYCRAFTING
CREATE YOUR PERFECT COACH! + TEAM UNIFORM EDITOR +FULL CUSTOMIZATION
32 TEAMS TO MAKE YOUR OWN + -SUPER VIBRANT PIXEL ART AND ANIMATIONS FOR ANY MOVE YOU MAKE
A HALL OF FAME AND MILESTONES FOR YOUR ACCOMPLISHMENTS
LIVE THROUGH A FLEDGING FRANCHISE! DRAFT YOUR DREAM TEAM OF UNIQUE PLAYERS
FULL FRANCHISE AND TEAM MANAGEMENT LIKE THE REAL GAME + STADIUM AND FACILITIES MANAGER AND UPGRADES
FULL SEASONS, LEAGUE SCHEDULES, ROSTERS, AND OFF-SEASONS + NEWS WIRE, RETIREMENTS, AND FREE AGENCY
About Top Hat Studios, Inc.
Top Hat Studios is your favorite curator and publisher of fine, indie game delicacies. A proud supporter of games from blockbuster productions all the way to niche and boutique experimentations, anything goes! Whether it be weird and wacky, soothing for the soul, or just a plain good ol' time - all that matters is the spirit of true indie runs through a game. Top Hat Studios diverse portfolio includes hits such as Frogun, Ova Magica, SONZAI, Labyrinth of the Demon King, and many more. The firm provides a full suite of publishing, business development, creative media, and engineering & porting expertise working with all major codebases and toolkits, to indie developers of all shapes and sizes.
About Super Pixel Games
Super Pixel Games is the alias of Javier Martinez - for who, developing games is the ultimate passion, and building epic sports games is a speciality. Javier aims to bring fun and immersive sports games to gamers all around the world, with the hopes of giving sports gamers truly innovative alternatives on the virtual field!