Summary

• Madden 2004 brought unrivaled depth to franchise mode, with features like setting hot dog prices and managing an NFL team.
• NCAA 14 Dynasty Mode offers intense recruiting and conference realignment, allowing you to build powerhouse schools over 60 seasons.
• F1 2020 introduced MyTeam Career Mode, letting players own a Formula 1 team and sign drivers in a unique gameplay experience.

It's a tradition as old as time itself. Every single year, frequently in the fall and spring, the newest sports titles will be released as a harbinger of the real-world seasons that the games are based on beginning once more. While many fans flock to the online modes, there is still a solid contingent of fans who would rather play the offline modes of the major sports gaming franchises.

By most counts, th🍨e Franchise Modes of most games in recent memory have fallen by the𝓀 wayside, but these games will hook you into their franchise mode and keep you coming back.

7 Madden 2004 Franchise Mo🎃🔯de

Set The Hot Dog Prices (Yes, Really!)

Madden NFL 2004 featured the biggest game-breaker of all time in its cover athlete, Michael Vick. But ignoring Vick forꩵ a moment, Madden 2004 was a big step forward for the franchise in other aspects of the game. This included a franchise mode whose depth remains unrivaled by modern sports games.

Select one of the 32 NFL clubs, and you'll step into the world of running an NFL franchise. News clippings about your team and radio shows discussing your team and the events of a given week of the NFL were both features that were years ahead of their time and have yet to be successfully replicated in many games since. You can even go as far as setting the prices of tickets, stadium food, and more. And that is before you ever step foot on the field with your team.

6 🧔 NCAA 14 Dynast🌱y Mode

Coach And Recruit Your Way To The Top

The EA Sports College Football Series announced its revival in 2021 after a then-seven-year hiaꦿtus. After years of little to no news, a new target date for the release 🌱of the game now known as EA Sports College Football 25 was announced this spring. The most recent game of the sub-series, NCAA Football 14, remains a favorite for football gamers all across the board.

Take control of the best schools from minute one, or take on the one and two-star schools and build them into powerhouses over 60 full seasons. Recruiting future talents is an intensive but rewarding experience, and you'll get to watch the further you advance into the mode as your talents become the best players in the nation. And let's not forget the conference realignment system, a hot-button topic as the real-world NCAA Football prepares to embark into an unknown with mass conference realignment unfolding as we speak.

5 F1 2020 MyTeam Career Mode ܫ 🍎

Start Your Journey In The World Of Formula 1

This game was released at a time when the world was flipped upside down during the COVID-19 Pandemic, with the real-world Formula 1 having only just returned to the track. Codemasters' long-running F1 series implemented the most substantial feature of the franchise to date. While the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:traditional driver career mode remainಞed, the development team from Southam introduced MyTeam career mode to the series.

Ever wanted to own a Formula 1 team but didn't have the funding to make it happen? (It happens to all of us). F1 2020 was the first in the series to grant players the opportunity to own the eleventh team on the grid (apologies to Andretti), sign away drivers from the other ten teams, and research new car parts to ascend the grid. Ignoring the problem of how owner-drivers have not succeeded (or existed) in the sport since the 1980s, MyTeam Career has remained a staple of the franchise for four iterations and counting.

4 F1 Manager 2023 Career Mode ♏

The Brains Behind The Brawn (GP)

Our first management game on this list, F1 Manager 2023, is an expansion upon Frontier Software's solid rookie outing with F1 Manager 2022. As the title implies, the game is based on the 2023 Formula 1 season, with all 20 drivers (including the midseason change for Daniel Ricciardo) and 23 circuits. The difference, however, is that instead of creating your own team, you're taking control of an active team (but F1 Manager 24 will have this feature.)

Start from the 2023 season while meeting your board's goals as you build up your team and facilities while you chase the Drivers' and Constructors' World Championships. Scout and steal away other teams' best drivers and engineers while fostering the growth of your own team's reserve drivers. Don't like where your team is headed? You've got the option to switch to another team mid-career mode.

3 NFL 2K Franchise M♕ode

So Good, It Remains A Classic

The NFL 2K franchise was, for a time, Madden's most direct competition. This competition was pushed to a point where NFL 2K5 was released for all of 20 dollars, weeks before Madden 2005 could hit store shelves. Unfortunately, this move ultimately led to the end of the 2k football franchise.

On its own merits, NFL 2K5 possesses a deep franchise mode. The ESPN branding, in its final year of having worked with 2K Sports, will make your league feel alive as Chris Berman takes you through the week-to-week highlights of the NFL season. Other ESPN personalities are present within the franchise mode as well, and creating teams will allow you to take control of the NFL's thirty-third franchise, even as the real-world NFL still has not expanded from 32 teams since 2002.

2 ꦗ NBA 2k2🍰3 MyNBA Eras

Want To Change History?

The moment NBA 2K's 2022-23 season entry stepped onto the court, 2K and Visual Concepts sought to change the game with franchise modes. While the normal 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:MyNBA and MyCareer modes st💫ill remain in place, MyNBA Eras stole the show. Starting from four (in 2K24, five) distinct eras, yo꧒u can pick up from the year before Michael Jordan was drafted 🦩all the way to the present day.

And in doing so, you can either re-write or re-live the past four decades of NBA basketball as it happened. Ever wonder what might have happened if Michael Jordan wasn't drafted by the Chicago Bulls? What if LeBron James wasn't the true #1 overall selection of the 2003 NBA Draft? These are only two of the questions whose answers you can pursue by playing the mode.

1 Footbal🍸l Manager Series Franchise Modes

Real-World Teams Have Used This For Strategy

The Football Manager series started life in 2004. After twenty years of growth, the series and its career mode has expanded enough to where real-life football clubs are using the game's database to scout players. But what exactly has drawn players and real football clubs to the experience of Football Manager?

You don't just assemble your best teams and plan out tactics to take down your opponents across the Football Manager series. As of the newest game in the decades-long series, you have to truly get into the headspace of a football team's manager. Fight to 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:keep your players from transferring to other clubs for more lucrative deals, choose the world you wis🎐h to enter from one of three options, and continuously f🅺ight to gain the respect of your fans, all while you ensure continued success on the pitch.