I found it much easier to play the game and much easier to find random and pointless information, for example the dimensions of my beloved Stamford Bridge. The skin is white, has nice tabs everywhere and a helpful advisor that is supposed to be less annoying than the MS Office paper-clip guy but doesn’t quite save itself from being turned off. There’s more than a passing resemblance to music download portal iTunes, and ‘thing through which you stalk people you’re scared to speak to in real life’ Facebook. Football Manager was always addictive, yes, but what SI has done is give the game a 2007 social networking sheen, making the skin look cleaner, more easily navigable and, well, whiter. And with Football Manager 2008, they’ve gone and added even more features, without messing about with the fundamental way the game works, that, yes you guessed it, makes it even more time consuming.Īnd addictive. As the series has evolved, it’s tried to add features that make it more realistic, so much so, in fact, that it has become as time consuming as actually managing a football club. Football Manager lets you take control of a football club and manage it to the top. But just in case you’re one of the few very special people that hasn’t got a clue what all the fuss is about, let us enlighten you.
Just good, solid, Football Manager fun.Įven if you don’t play Football Manager, you probably know about it. No farcical Championship Manager 4 bug-fest.
SI has clearly taken a “ if it ‘aint broke don’t fix it” philosophy here, and that’s just what was needed. Essentially Football Manager is Championship Manager in everything but name, and, thus, the greatest football management sim there is.Īs lead developer Miles Jacobson has said, Football Manager 2008 is an evolution of the series, not a revolution. If you didn’t know, Football Manager is what relationship-killing classic Championship Manager turned into after UK developer Sports Interactive left publisher Eidos in 2003 and became a part of SEGA. Now, brace yourself for another virtual footballing stalwart to join the club – Football Manager is back. Whether it be talented Shrek-alike Wayne Rooney not actually doing anything or Newcastle sick-note Michael Owen doing something highly irregular – kicking a ball for his club – it’s hard to escape the autumn football game marketing blitz. Does it ever end? If you’re not a football fanatic, gaming must sometimes feel like a testosterone-fuelled nightmare.
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