Quick Hit Football
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Quick Hit Football is a free online American football
game. The Quick Hit company was started in 2008 by Jeffrey Anderson, and went public in September 2009. Quick Hit Football offers single player against CPU opponents and multi-player against human opponents. Quick Hit Football is based on user playcalling. On September 8, 2010, the NFL integrated into Quick Hit Football and was granted the official license from the NFL. A few months afterwards, on December 22, 2010, Quick Hit Football was offered in High-Definition 3D, allowing greater immersion of the participant in the game, while maintaining a realistic sense of play. Following this, new games and challenges were offered to the players, allowing for new challenges and games with players around the world in multiplayer games, NFL season games, as well as legendary football coaches such as Bill Cowher, Tom Landry, Vince Lombardi, Dan Reeves
, Marty Schottenheimer
, and Dick Vermeil
.
Once the play starts, the user becomes a bystander
and is not allowed to control any player movement. Scoring follows NFL football rules. As in NFL football, the team with the most points at the end of regulation wins. Single-player regulation consists of four two minute quarters, while multi-player games feature four two and a half minute quarters.
During the game, a user's team receives fantasy points based on the performance of the players. These points help the user improve the team, allowing QHF players to reach higher levels. To level QHF players up, a user spends 1,000 Coaching Points (CP) to move a player up one level, though they may choose to move a player up multiple levels in one transaction. Additionally, Coaching Points and another currency, Quick Cash (QC), can be purchased in various increments from $5 to $50.
CP and QC can both be used to purchase new plays from the store, including contributions from ex-NFL head coaches Dan Reeves
, Marty Schottenheimer
, and Dick Vermeil
. Both currencies can also be used to purchase new players, which range from customizable nobodies to NFL legends such as Warren Moon
, Jack Tatum
, Barry Sanders
, and Jack Youngblood
, who have a higher skill rating than the average player. NFL legends are rated on a 10-star scale, with 10-star Elite players being available for purchase only with QC, that is, real money. QH added several new gaming modes from shorter 5 minute Blitz games to longer 5 minutes per quarter Marathon games.
stated that Quick Hit Football “offers an authentic, strategic football game without the twitch and complexity.” However, IGN also said that the visual quality "isn't super-detailed" and "nothing in the game will knock your socks off." Game Informer said in its preview that the game provides "ease of play calling, and surface decisions that allow you to get in and play quickly” while also adding “more depth for hardcore players." Gamespy
suggested Quick Hit Football "offers an authentic, strategic football game."
American football
American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
game. The Quick Hit company was started in 2008 by Jeffrey Anderson, and went public in September 2009. Quick Hit Football offers single player against CPU opponents and multi-player against human opponents. Quick Hit Football is based on user playcalling. On September 8, 2010, the NFL integrated into Quick Hit Football and was granted the official license from the NFL. A few months afterwards, on December 22, 2010, Quick Hit Football was offered in High-Definition 3D, allowing greater immersion of the participant in the game, while maintaining a realistic sense of play. Following this, new games and challenges were offered to the players, allowing for new challenges and games with players around the world in multiplayer games, NFL season games, as well as legendary football coaches such as Bill Cowher, Tom Landry, Vince Lombardi, Dan Reeves
Dan Reeves
Daniel Edward Reeves is a former American football player and head coach. He has participated in more Super Bowls as player/assistant coach/Head Coach than anyone else...
, Marty Schottenheimer
Marty Schottenheimer
Martin Edward "Marty" Schottenheimer is the current head coach of the Virginia Destroyers of the United Football League. Over his career, he has served as head coach of the Cleveland Browns, Kansas City Chiefs, Washington Redskins, and San Diego Chargers. He has the most wins of any NFL coach...
, and Dick Vermeil
Dick Vermeil
Richard Albert "Dick" Vermeil is a former American head coach for the National Football League's Philadelphia Eagles , St. Louis Rams and Kansas City Chiefs...
.
Gameplay
Quick Hit Football gameplay revolves around the user's coaching ability. The user may call a play from the QHF playbook, and then use any boosters his player might have earned in prior games. Any boosters received may be used once in each game. A booster must be used before the play begins. When calling the play, a user may scroll through a list of plays, or filter through the plays in three ways: Type, Category, and Key Player.Once the play starts, the user becomes a bystander
Bystander
A bystander a person who, although present at some event, does not take part in it; an observer or spectator.*Bystander effect, a social psychological phenomenon wherein individuals do not offer help in an emergency situation when other people are present...
and is not allowed to control any player movement. Scoring follows NFL football rules. As in NFL football, the team with the most points at the end of regulation wins. Single-player regulation consists of four two minute quarters, while multi-player games feature four two and a half minute quarters.
During the game, a user's team receives fantasy points based on the performance of the players. These points help the user improve the team, allowing QHF players to reach higher levels. To level QHF players up, a user spends 1,000 Coaching Points (CP) to move a player up one level, though they may choose to move a player up multiple levels in one transaction. Additionally, Coaching Points and another currency, Quick Cash (QC), can be purchased in various increments from $5 to $50.
CP and QC can both be used to purchase new plays from the store, including contributions from ex-NFL head coaches Dan Reeves
Dan Reeves
Daniel Edward Reeves is a former American football player and head coach. He has participated in more Super Bowls as player/assistant coach/Head Coach than anyone else...
, Marty Schottenheimer
Marty Schottenheimer
Martin Edward "Marty" Schottenheimer is the current head coach of the Virginia Destroyers of the United Football League. Over his career, he has served as head coach of the Cleveland Browns, Kansas City Chiefs, Washington Redskins, and San Diego Chargers. He has the most wins of any NFL coach...
, and Dick Vermeil
Dick Vermeil
Richard Albert "Dick" Vermeil is a former American head coach for the National Football League's Philadelphia Eagles , St. Louis Rams and Kansas City Chiefs...
. Both currencies can also be used to purchase new players, which range from customizable nobodies to NFL legends such as Warren Moon
Warren Moon
Harold Warren Moon is a former American professional gridiron football quarterback who played for the Canadian Football League's Edmonton Eskimos and the National Football League's Houston Oilers, Minnesota Vikings, Seattle Seahawks and Kansas City Chiefs...
, Jack Tatum
Jack Tatum
John David Tatum was an American football defensive back who played ten seasons from 1971 through 1980 for the Oakland Raiders and Houston Oilers in the National Football League...
, Barry Sanders
Barry Sanders
Barry Sanders is a former American football running back who spent all of his professional career with the Detroit Lions in the NFL. Sanders left the game just short of the all-time rushing record...
, and Jack Youngblood
Jack Youngblood
Herbert Jackson "Jack" Youngblood, III is a former American college and professional football player who was a defensive end for the Los Angeles Rams of the National Football League for fourteen seasons during the 1970s and 1980s. He was a five-time consensus All-Pro and a seven-time Pro Bowl...
, who have a higher skill rating than the average player. NFL legends are rated on a 10-star scale, with 10-star Elite players being available for purchase only with QC, that is, real money. QH added several new gaming modes from shorter 5 minute Blitz games to longer 5 minutes per quarter Marathon games.
Critical reception
IGNIGN
IGN is an entertainment website that focuses on video games, films, music and other media. IGN's main website comprises several specialty sites or "channels", each occupying a subdomain and covering a specific area of entertainment...
stated that Quick Hit Football “offers an authentic, strategic football game without the twitch and complexity.” However, IGN also said that the visual quality "isn't super-detailed" and "nothing in the game will knock your socks off." Game Informer said in its preview that the game provides "ease of play calling, and surface decisions that allow you to get in and play quickly” while also adding “more depth for hardcore players." Gamespy
GameSpy
GameSpy Industries, Inc., known simply as GameSpy, is a division of IGN Entertainment, which operates a network of game websites and provides online video game-related services and software. GameSpy dates back to the 1996 release of an internet Quake server search program named QSpy. The current...
suggested Quick Hit Football "offers an authentic, strategic football game."