![]() In a way this takes away from the addictiveness of the early versions of Champ Manager, where it was much easier just to switch on your PC and play out a whole season in an afternoon. In Football Manager 2009 you're also expected to take part in press conferences, carefully choosing your answers to a stream of questions posed by journalists (who, incidentally, are from real-life local newspapers and media outlets).Īll of this means that Football Manager 2009 is the most involved soccer management sim in history and playing it genuinely does feel like a full-time job. Though sometimes annoying, this can be useful for discovering players based on names being bandied around by the papers. Every day, you get reports of transfer rumors involving your players, or players that you're allegedly interested in. These days, real life football managers are forced into much more interaction with the media, and the new press features in the game reflect this. You'll probably welcome all this help, since this is the most involved Football Manager game in history. He's now able to give you feedback during matches about the way the tactics are going, as well as sorting out training schedules and giving team talks. Your assistant manager in Football Manager 2009 is much more useful than he was in previous versions. There are a range of different views and angles to choose from, including the good old floating discs. Granted, the graphics are not exactly Pro Evolution or FIFA standard, but it still gives you much more of a flavor of what's happening in the matches and helps you to analyze individual player performances more easily. This means that rather than watching games play out with little discs representing the players, you can now view the action in a more realistic fashion. Probably the most significant addition to Football Manager 2009 is the new 3D game engine. Luckily, the interface is intuitive enough to cope with the sheer range of data, options and functions, using an Outlook-style approach to organize the various different menus. In fact, the database is so ridiculously large that you'll probably find the guys from your local park team in there, all complete with profiles, pictures, history, etc. For fans of Square Enix’s Championship Manager series, this may feel like a disappointing stopgap between Championship Manager 15 and 16.Of course, all of the game data in Football Manager 2009 has been updated to include the latest players transfers and league information. Mid-tableĬhampionship Manager: All-Stars is a competent soccer management game, but lacks the visual flair of other games like FIFA Ultimate Team. It’s functional, but a more graphical approach would have been nice. While the game has all the statistics you might want, the presentation of matches is pretty basic, just showing possession and basic commentary on the game. There's a market for buying and selling players, and you can use in-game cash and optional micropayments to get the team you want. But it's not very deep, and even advanced tactics for games are pretty shallow compared to other soccer management games. You have to train your team, buy and sell players, choose match tactics, and so on. In Championship Manager: All-Stars you start with a randomly created team, featuring one 'star' player, who will no doubt become who you build your team around. The gameplay will be familiar to anyone who has played a soccer management game before. You can chat with other players when online. All-Star mode is offline, as is the last mode, World Tour, which sees you take on the most famous teams from around the globe. Like Survival mode, it's played online with other managers from around the world. In Tournament mode you play in various competitions, using your All-Stars team. You have to do your best with what you can choose from, making the most balanced team possible. Adding to the challenge, the game obliges you to choose from players it proposes. ![]() ![]() Survival mode gives you three 'lives' and lets you see how many games you can play without losing - every loss loses you a life. ![]() There's All Star, which is the conventional version where you play full seasons, with league and cup competitions. Championship Manager: All-Stars has four modes. ![]()
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