Old College Gamer Magazine chats with ‘Franchise Hockey Manager 6’ Chief Advertising Officer Richard Grisham, who discusses this year’s version of the game and why it is a vast improvement more than its predecessors.
Old College Gamer Magazine: How has this game changed from final year?
Richard Grisham: Quite a few, several strategies each large and little. We’ve added hundreds of ‘little things’ that longtime fans will like, as properly as a couple of ‘big ticket’ things that everybody (newcomers and veterans) will love. Some of my individual favorites contain the new rivalry technique which definitely rewards you in several strategies when you defeat your rivals more than time regularly – fans will be happier and come to much more games, players will see boosts, and the general group is energized and will be much more thriving. Conversely, drop to your rivals more than time and issues get hard. Plus! These rivalries transform more than time also, just like the actual NHL.
Old College Gamer Magazine:What are the finest new capabilities you have added?
Grisham: In addition to the rivalries, my preferred new function (amongst several) is the historical exhibition function. You can pit any group against any other group in history, whether or not it is a 1-game match or 99-game series or something in in between. The matchup possibilities are infinite and I really like experimenting with ‘what if’ scenarios all the time. But that is just me – we’ve got lots of other cool new capabilities that lots of folks like.
Old College Gamer Magazine: What are your ambitions for this year’s version?
Grisham: My major objective is for everybody to have entertaining with it. My second objective is for much more folks to play it than ever, due to the fact we really feel this is a specific version that capitalizes on so several issues we’ve discovered more than the years. We want our neighborhood to develop exponentially and can not wait for lots of folks to see the outstanding depth FHM six has to present.
Old College Gamer Magazine: What’s subsequent?
Grisham: A year-extended campaign to market the game and make certain anybody and everybody who would love it can hear about it and play it! This is the initially day of a yearlong journey and I am Definitely excited about the possibilities ahead of us.
Old College Gamer Magazine: Why is this a good entry point for folks who haven’t played the series just before?
Grisham: The finest answer to that is variation. There are lots of strategies to play FHM six, whether or not you want to take more than your preferred NHL club and play each game this season, or go back in time to any year and re-do one thing. The massive quantity of teams and leagues is good also – if your neighborhood minor league group is your preferred, possibilities are higher you can even play with that club in FHM six! If you like playing against your buddies, we have on-line leagues. If you just want to verify out a bunch of 1-off scenarios, we’ve got the new historical exhibition mode. So several strategies to play – and they’re all set up to ease you into it if you’d like.
Old College Gamer Magazine: What will bring older fans back for much more?
Grisham: Lots of these ‘little things’ such as (but hardly restricted to) bringing in a save from FHM five to FHM six (a extended-requested function), obtaining the game stats show up on the screen in actual-time whilst you are simulating a match/week/month/season, locking players to a line and saving them, players getting suspended for negative behavior…there are so several of these issues fans have asked for that we’ve delivered. That is what has our neighborhood definitely buzzing!
Old College Gamer Magazine: Something else you’d like to add?
Grisham: We really like and appreciate our superb neighborhood, who continually push us to make our game much better. We want our neighborhood to develop, so if you have never ever noticed what we’re about, give Franchise Hockey Manager six a attempt!
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Patrick Hickey, Jr., is the founder and editor-in-chief of ReviewFix.com and a lecturer of English and journalism at Kingsborough Neighborhood College, in Brooklyn, New York. More than the previous decade, his video game coverage has been featured in national ad campaigns by major publishers the likes of Nintendo, Deep Silver, Disney and EA Sports. His upcoming book, “The Minds Behind the Games: Interviews With Cult and Classic Game Developers,” from McFarland and Corporation, has currently earned praise from Forbes, Huffington Post, The New York Each day News and MSG Networks. He is also a former editor at NBC and National Video Games Writer at the late-Examiner.com