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Anyone who links the Football Manager series will be guaranteed to like this iteration as its largely similar to previous versions. The menus are laid out similarly (but this can be changed with skins). There are a few nice improvements....
The match can now be viewed in 3D, but this isn't like watching a game on Fifa Manager which basically uses the Fifa engine. Its a more primitive, but its perfect for a management game. It certainly doesn't require an incredibly expensive graphics card to run. It seems to work the exact same as the old match engine, with player playing nice patterns of passes. It doesn't seem like Fifa Manager where you get the feeling that the match will have two completely different outcomes if you play it in text mode or in 3D. The only minor annoyance about the match engine is the fact that you can't see any stadium around the pitch. You can always revert to the traditional top down, 2D approach. Another nice addition here is that your assistant will tell you a whole range of things about the game. Whether he is right or wrong probably depends on his stats for each aspect.
Press conferences actually take place now rather than before a game, you just answer one question and thats it, this time around you answer a series of questions, you can choose to select one of the answers, decline to comment or storm out. When you answer a question there is also an option to enter text (free form) as well as your selected answer. I'm not sure what effect (if any) this might have. (I haven't tried it as entering text is a little buggy - probably intentionally so - duplicates of letters you type, etc)
Interacting with players also sees a slight improvment. For example, when interacting with Wayne Rooney, I can ask him, or tell him a series of things I'd like him to focus on. One of which made me laugh - "Ask Rooney to stop blasting the ball towards goal!" and another one "Ask Rooney to stop throwing himself into tackles!". Theres a lot more detailed things...and the range of options depends on the player. For example I can ask Nani to try and riffle free kicks or to stay in the channels.
The player ratings aren't just a flat 6, 7, etc any more which is nice. Before it was difficult to know that if a player is playing 7 out of 10, would he go up to 8.... etc. Its a lot easier to tell when your dealing with decimals.
If you liked any of the previous Football Manager games, then you will definently like this one too.
Release Date: 14 November 2008
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