NFL Head Coach 09: Prima Official Game Guide (Prima Official Game Guides)

This is a high quality guide for NFL Head Coach 09, which is currently (August 13, 2008) only available when you buy the bundled Collectors Edition of Madden 09.

This is the guide that should have been included with the game itself. Nearly half of this guide is filled with instructions on HOW to play the game and HOW to use the Play Editor - and that's a good thing.

The lame 12 page pamphlet that EA ships with the game itself is basically useless and this guide answers most of the gameplay questions. There are so many things happening behind the scenes in this game that you would have no idea about unless you either figured it out on your own (which would take hours and hours worth of restarting Career mode to fix your mistakes), or took a look at this Prima guide.

The second half of the guide details various play strategies for each of the NFL teams. It breaks down each team's best offensive and defensive plays in easy to understand terms...Read more

I have read some other reviews of this product which leave the reader with an unfavorable impression. I'd like to rectify that situation by fully endorsing this guide.

I played three entire seasons of Head Coach '09 before my guide (ordered from Amazon.com) arrived. The first season I relied upon those unfavorable reviews and simply went at it. The second season, I began to suspect I had been mislead. By the third, I was convinced and restarted my league. Though I did not yet have the guide, I knew the learning curve was steep, particularly with so many facets of the game unexplained, even after visits to the EA forums. I only played a part of another season before I had the guide in my hand and I've not looked back.

One could say that the list of 50 future stars alone pays for the guide. It's nice to have that peak into the future, to know a certain player will be another Dan Marino or LT.

But the real value, in my opinion, is in the advice the...Read more

This guide kind of gives you a good hint on which teams or players you should go after. I bought this used and it was just like new and arrived early. It gives you overalls, how to make plays, some others that I can't think of right now, but it is a good guide.