Chapter 12. Sports Games
Sports games set an unusual challenge for the game designer. Unlike most other games, which take place in a world the player knows little about, sports games emulate a world the player knows a lot about: sporting events as they are in real life. No one has ever really led an army of elves into combat, and only a small number of people know how it feels to fly an F-16 fighter jet, but a great many people know what professional football looks like and how the game is played. Sports games belong to a small number of genres that permit a direct comparison with the real world.
Not all sports games are ultrarealistic, of course. Some, such as Electronic Arts' old Genesis game Mutant League Football, are fantasy games, even ...
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