Ok now what is a sports sim? And what is SCR?

Seems I get this response to my previous entry in the MGDB (Medley Games Dev Blog), so I will try to explain a little more about SCR and the genre it belongs in!

If you are new to sports simulation games, but not to stock car racing, then maybe a little info is needed. Say you are a big sports fan, but you get tired of the button pushing console games that leave your destiny to how well you time and push levers and buttons on your favorite sports game on PS2, XBox, or GameCube. What is your options?

Few?

Not hardly.

If you have a PC , there are games that are not based on your knowledge of the rosters of each professional team, so all you have to do is use an editor and voila! the guy is on your team. They are what the genre calls sports sim games, or text sports sim games.

Before you go running off, let me inform you that if you find that the latest sports game gets mundane and boring, you might give the genre a try.

Games like Sports Interactive's Football Manager 2005 and NHL Eastside Hockey Manager 2005 ,OOTP Developments' Out of The Park Baseball 6 and Title Bout Championship Boxing, Solecismic Software's classic Front Office Football 2004.

Also you need to check out:

Grey Dog Software's Total Pro Basketball 2005 by Gary Gorski, along with Adam Ryland's Total Extreme Wrestling 2005 which for a new company have made a great start; Shaun Sullivan's PureSim Baseball, Baseball Mogul 2005, along with .400 Software Studios' Total Pro Football and Tournament Dreams College Basketball by Arlie Rahn, and FaceOff Hockey by Rick Cole and Jim Renshaw, and Brian Nichol's Fast Break Basketball and Fast Break College Basketball. (Links will be at the end of the post..)

There are a lot of games out there that you can test your management skills against than just an console AI that has only limited memory.

These games are for the masterminds, the thinkers, the people that want to prove that someone can manage those pesky Cubs to a World Series, or take lowly Gonzaga to the national college basketball championship? What about taking lowly Preston North End to the Premier Division in football? It can happen!

So what you say? Well let's start like this.

Ever get tired of seeing your favorite team lose time and again to teams they should beat? Well these games are what you are looking for. They allow you to take your favorite teams and match your knowledge of the sport and see how you would do with that team that JUST misses.

Baseball? Football? (both American and worldwide.. hehe) Basketball? Boxing? Hockey? Yep they all have some representation, and you can delve into each world creating that special matchup or historical game!

The only limitation is your imagination. You can create whole worlds where the Negro Leagues were never seperate, where Hockey never had a interruption, and the Pro Basketball Leagues never had holdouts.


And that is where we come to SCR.

You believe that someone like Jeff Gordon is overrated, or that Kasey Kahne is underappreciated? You believe Mark Martin doesn't get the kudos he deserves? Ever want to match your wits and talents against the Hendricks and Evernhams, and Ganassi, Childress, and Roush's of the world?

Think you can run a better Stock Car team? Believe you can win Daytona? Win the Cup? Survive the Chase? Well now you get to prove it with SCR- Stock Car Championship Racing the game.

What about that driver tearing it up in the Truck or Lower divisions? Is he ready for the big time? Should you replace pit crew members? Maybe entice a driver to join you during "Silly Season?"

That is just some of the things you can be deciding on with SCR. You can also have a "Cup Season" of your own with other like minded fans and race against your friends for the season title!

For those motor sports fans out there, we will be bringing you a chance to make your motor sports dreams come true!



Thanks for stopping by!


And now the links! Please take some time to download a demo and try it out! Or better yet, BUY ONE!

http://www.medleygames.com/board/index.php

http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/

http://www.sigames.com/

http://www.solecismic.com/

http://www.400softwarestudios.com/main.php

http://www.puresim.com/

http://www.greydogsoftware.com/

http://www.sportplanet.com/fbb/

http://www.sportsmogul.com/