The player will often be asked to participate in press conferences, during which the answers you provide determine your popularity with fans, co-workers and the media.
The Sun is on board, reporting on all in-game scandal, from which popstar your top scorer is currently bedding to rifts between manager and backroom staff. Perhaps it’s a trifle unnecessary to include the option to learn to play golf or purchase a boat to curry favour with the chairman, but features like these are an interesting inclusion nonetheless.Īll of the superficiality of the modern game is included. The FIFA Manager series, however, is loaded with additional features and packed with enough options to provide some longevity. The player can even opt to found their own club for the challenge of taking a bunch of minnows to dizzy heights.Īs is usually the case with football management simulations, you are in charge of team selection, tactics, training, transfers plus all the other standard stuff. There are a wealth of clubs and international sides to select, from minnows in the Cyprian league to the Brazilian national team. While it doesn’t offer quite as much choice as the Football Manager series, licensing has always been one of EA’s strong points and there’s no shortage of officially sanctioned teams and players here.
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Eidos’s Championship Manager and Sport Interactive’s Football Manager have dominated football management simulation since time immemorial, but now a new contender has emerged to challenge the big two.īright Future’s FIFA Manager series has often been overlooked in favour of the aforementioned tried and trusted titles, but with the 2009 edition being its best to date, its chances of causing an upset in the software charts have never been better.įIFA Manager 09 puts you in the managerial hot seat of the team of your choice. The battle between this season’s football management sims looks set to be every bit as interesting as the Premier League run in.