The ultimate football management game...for insomniacs
Rated as /5 on Apr 23 2007 by Brian Johnston
It’s back - the greatest ever invention for football management simulation geeks like myself!!
Having grown up in the 80s and early 90s playing lifeless, and depressingly limited management games on the old Amstrad 464, my generation dreamed of a detailed, lifelike (hey...within reason), and thoroughly riveting games like this. Well my friends 1989 it ain’t, and science fiction has become science fact.
Football Manager 2007 (and it’s predecessors 2004/5/6) evolved from the Championship Manager series, the genesis of proper footy manager computer games. The same creators are involved and have moved to the giant corporate arms of Sega, and bigger certainly is better.
This game has it all - transfers, tactics, training, press interaction, contracts, salaries, scouting in Argentina, in-match management, thrills spills and bellyaches!
Have a row with Wenger, stick Rio in the reserves, tell the lads to do for the fans, or criticise Craig Bellamy in public, there is very little in the real world that you can’t have here (and I’m sure the next version will contain certain WAG features).
The aspects of management are so detailed that you can literally play this in real time, and a single match could actually take 90 mins if you chose to watch. I’ve calculated playing a full season at the fastest speed takes 2 days in 12 hour shifts...maybe i should get a life - but I don’t care!!
Be warned, this game has the potential to ruin your marriage and make strangers of your kids...but hey, there’s no accounting for other peoples’ selfishness, and who said winning the Champions League wouldn’t involve sacrifices!
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