Mode 7 has updated Frozen Cortex with manager features. The indie robo-football strategy game now offers full game simulation in a top-down view, free agent bidding, salary cap adjustments, a 90-team college league, a draft tournament, and players can now be “injured” or disabled. Most importantly, for players that may have found the Frozen Cortex A.I. enemies a tad too good, the manager update adds an easy mode. On the bad news side, although Mode 7 had planned to add multiplayer leagues to the game, that feature will not be coming.
We need to be more conservative with planned features that we announce in future, so we’ll do our best to stop something like this happening again. I know it’s extremely frustrating when a feature you wanted and were expecting gets cut: I’m annoyed that this happened. We will continue to do our best to both get the spec of games right in advance and execute the spec that we announce fully.
Frozen Cortex (formerly called Frozen Endzone) now has a single player game just in time for the Superbowl. The early access future-sport title from Mode 7 Games had skirmish matches previously, but they were bare little things lacking context. The NFL knows fans love a big helping of drama served with their manly football antics. Check out the features being rolled out in the latest update! Knockout mode is a hardcore, lose-one-game-and-you’re-done option, teams now have unique coaches, there’s a random league feature, announcers have dialogue, and there’s even a story behind all the running and robot tackles.
Also featured for the first time is Frozen Cortex’s narrative. A scandal in the Global Cortex League threatens to undermine the entire game and might just be connected to the fate of the entire country…
The narrative develops as the player plays their matches, persisting between playthroughs and between Knockout and Global Cortex League mode. We’ve tried to tell an involving story while still allowing the player to dip in and out of whichever mode they wish.
