PC Gamer’s simulated Super Bowl 2025 live coverage: featuring Football Simulator’s extreme physics
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2025-02-07T22:27:03.200Z
An actual field goal attempt! (Spoiler: it missed)
The Chiefs somehow got into a position to almost score, so that’s progress, but they missed the kick. Boo!
Speaking of kicks, in the next possession, an Eagles player is launched through the wall of the dome and into the parking lot. “Let’s see where they spot this,” the announcer says. They’ll have to spot it in Section 6, Row D4.
2025-02-07T22:18:16.255Z
Current score: 0-0. Future score: 0-0?
Okay, this is obviously fun and amazing, but here in the first quarter I’m a little worried no one is actually going to be able to score or even progress down the field. Every time there’s any sort of collision everyone goes flying. Several players have been ejected into the sidelines and stands.
Mahomes just threw a pass and it laid three players out flat as if they’d been struck by a cannonball. How is anyone ever going to score?
2025-02-07T22:13:15.273Z
2025-02-07T22:10:32.134Z
Just one more quick extremely very short slight delay in starting the game
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This game doesn’t just have Extra Physics, it has So Many Extra Physics. There are pages and pages of physics. I keep scrolling down and finding more physics. I think Football Simulator has all of the physics?
OVERRIDE FOOT REGAIN PIN SPEED COEFF. STIFF ARMS BOOST IMMUNITY. ORIGINAL MUSCLE PIN WEIGHT. I don’t know what any of this means. I’m just sorta randomly turning some up and some down. I’d look into it more but I’ve really gotta start the game!
2025-02-07T22:07:58.306Z
Another slight delay in starting the game
(Image credit: Refactor Games)
The real Super Bowl is taking place in New Orleans, but I don’t see New Orleans on the list of stadiums so I’m choosing Las Vegas (the place to bet all your money on football). I’m also setting the weather to be snow because it’s fun when there’s snow and football, so don’t be confused as to why there’s snow, even though the Vegas stadium is a closed dome so there shouldn’t be snow.
But there’s snow! Let’s start the game!
2025-02-07T22:06:02.784Z
Slight delay in starting the game
(Image credit: Refactor Games)
Since Football Simulator doesn’t have a license to use the NFL’s real teams, I was just going to use their fake equivalents: The Kansas City Warlocks versus the Philadelphia Phoenixes. Problem is, the Phoenixes have red uniforms, so it kinda makes them look like the Chiefs instead of the Eagles. That’s no good.
What I’m gonna do instead is use the Detroit Gryphons to stand in for Philly (since their uniforms are green and a gryphon is basically an eagle) and the American All-Stars, whose uniforms are red. Philly: Green, KC: Red. Problem solved, let’s start the game!
