Any sports games with a single person career mode ?

MeSlayer · Post by **MeSlayer** » Sat Apr 02, 2005 7:52 pm

I was just thinking about this while browsing through one of the many OOTP threads:

Playing a sports game like an RPG-like career where you start out as a rookie pitcher or something, negotiate your deals, up your stats by doing well, etc etc

That would interest me much more than a baseball manager mode, but it could be fun in other sports too

Are there any sports games that are like that ? Text games are fine too, probably preferable actually

Kelric · Post by **Kelric** » Sat Apr 02, 2005 7:58 pm

Inside The Park Baseball is probably the closest you'll get to it. I never gave it a lot of time, but I bet it's improved since the initial release.

Edit - Just to clarify with my bad memory of the short time I gave it, you start out as a minor league ballplayer with a set of skills that you have some say (if not complete say) in determining and then you work your way up through the minors and the bigs. You can buy better equipment that influences your ability, read books and some other stuff.

ChrisGwinn · Post by **ChrisGwinn** » Sat Apr 02, 2005 11:21 pm

There's at least one professional racing game that does this, along with the usual golf/tennis/whatever. I'm not aware of any team sports though.

Thunderspark · Post by **Thunderspark** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 1:51 am

Powerful Pro Baseball 10/11 has a mode like that. You start as a rookie and gain in skills depending on how you do in games and at the end of each season, you negotiate your salary or enter the free agent market if your contract is up. If you wanted, you could even make your character from the minor leagues through a different mode and get him into the pro league...then use that character through his professional life in a different game mode. I've only played #10, which was the one where they introduced this mode. It's fun, but it's definitely not as well thought out as it could have been. I've heard that they really improved upon it in #11. I think it's only for Japanese PS2/Gamecube though.

MeSlayer · Post by **MeSlayer** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 2:01 pm

Hm cool thanks for the replies : )

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 2:14 pm

I cant' tell -- are you looking for a baseball only type game?

Because in Tiger Woods PGA Tour, you create a golfer and can play in a career mode (among other things). You get money and training that increase your abilities (control, driving distance, putting, etc...).

MeSlayer · Post by **MeSlayer** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 2:48 pm

Smoove_B wrote:I cant' tell -- are you looking for a baseball only type game?

Because in Tiger Woods PGA Tour, you create a golfer and can play in a career mode (among other things). You get money and training that increase your abilities (control, driving distance, putting, etc...).

No I'm talking about team sports in general, sorry I should have made that more clear.

I realize that a racing / golfing / tennis / etc sports would have more of an single persons career aspect, but I was just thinking how fun it would be to play out a career in a team sport

Obviously I'm in the minority there because there don't seem to be too many games like that : )

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 2:58 pm

Interesting. Team sports where you control the career of one person...

Grifman · Post by **Grifman** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 4:36 pm

Can you take steroids to enhance your career? Maybe get set up with a dealer, buy and use better drugs as you move up. Get hooked up with another guy that gives you stuff to enable you to pass drug tests? That would make it real

MeSlayer · Post by **MeSlayer** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 5:07 pm

Grifman wrote:Can you take steroids to enhance your career? Maybe get set up with a dealer, buy and use better drugs as you move up. Get hooked up with another guy that gives you stuff to enable you to pass drug tests? That would make it real

lol!

They could have a minigame of poking mark mcguire in the butt with the needle : )

magic · Post by **magic** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 6:38 pm

MeSlayer wrote:
Grifman wrote:Can you take steroids to enhance your career? Maybe get set up with a dealer, buy and use better drugs as you move up. Get hooked up with another guy that gives you stuff to enable you to pass drug tests? That would make it real
lol!

They could have a minigame of poking mark mcguire in the butt with the needle : )

They could, but i sure hope to god there isn't...

Rip · Post by **Rip** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 9:54 pm

Grifman wrote:Can you take steroids to enhance your career? Maybe get set up with a dealer, buy and use better drugs as you move up. Get hooked up with another guy that gives you stuff to enable you to pass drug tests? That would make it real

Don't forget the post career, write a book selling out all your friends you used to shoot up with for a few dollars.

Sterling · Post by **Sterling** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 12:11 pm

There's a nice text based soccer game pretty much exactly what you describe. You gain stats, can move up to new and better teams, even buy houses and cars with your money. It also has a minor relationship aspect where your fans/family/teammates/girlfriend(wife) have relationship meters, that go up or down depending on post-game press conferences.

Free Star soccer or something like that, I don't remember the name and lost it along with my old hard drive.

Kasey Chang · Post by **Kasey Chang** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 8:52 pm

Racing or boxing, yes, but in a team-sport? Nope.

coopasonic · Post by **coopasonic** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 9:58 am

The Sims 2, one of the careers is professional athlete!

Sterling · Post by **Sterling** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 12:02 pm

Found the game, www.newstarsoccer.com.