Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #653 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Sega
• Released on: 2006-10-18
• Platform: Windows XP

Amazon.co.uk Review:
In a nutshell:
Ron Managers of the world rejoice – the best football management game in the world just got better. From the original creators of Championship Manager comes the most in-depth and realistic strategy simulation ever seen.

The lowdown:
Having already got the balance between complexity and accessibility pretty much spot on, most of the improvements in this latest sequel are designed to make the game feel more organic and believable. A lot of it is simple stuff like being able to conduct team talks and see how players are responding to your dressing room dress downs, but it really makes a difference. It’s also possible for major clubs to sign up smaller ones as feeder clubs, while players themselves have a greater level of personality and new signings can be asked to recommend other players. None of the new changes have a massive impact on the way you play the game, but they all serve to create an even more immersive reality.

Most exciting moment:
The scouting engine has also received a major revamp and makes searching for new stars a lot easier. The scouts you send out can now learn from their experiences and a new scout report card makes it easier to get a quick overview while you do your superstar shopping.

Since you ask:
This version of the game still doesn’t have anything approaching moving graphics and its unlikely that’s ever going to change. The interface has been greatly improved though so that it’s not only easier to use but also faster and smoother.

The bottom line:
The best football management game ever made.-HARRISON DENT

Computeractive
We were sucked into this one and ended up playing for several hours straight through

Manufacturer's Description
New features include:

Feeder Clubs - Brand new to Football Manager 2007, and one of the most requested features on Sports Interactive's forums has been the addition of feeder clubs to the game. This new addition works in all the ways you would expect it to in real life. You can establish your club as the small team who receives loan players from a larger club or a large club looking for support getting your youngsters match experience by loaning them out. Have the first option on players from clubs, and schedule pre-arranged friendlies each season by simply asking your board for a feeder relationship and choose from the list they compile.

Youth Revamp - A complete revamp of youth teams sees full youth squads for each team that has a youth set-up, thus giving a much better system for the regeneration of players in the long term game.

User Friendly Football Manager 2007 gives players a new easier to use default skin, along with hints and tips throughout the game, and an improved tutorial. In addition to better feedback from your assistant manager and scouts as well as lots more media, customisation and multiple row selection, all this adds up to the most user friendly Sports Interactive game ever.

Scouting Revamp - A complete revamp of the scouting system inside the game leads to more information about players and teams being made available to managers, as well as a more realistic methodology for player scouting. This system allows scouts to grow and improve their knowledge-base of the world's football players.

Player Interaction - You can now talk to any player in the world via the media. Player interaction allows you to tap up other teams stars or see if players will buckle under the pressure. An effective manager must use the media as a motivational tool - why not praise your own players in many different ways or shout at them for loss of form?

Team Talks - For more varied ways to talk to your team, SI have worked hard to deliver vastly improved team talks at half and full time. Not only this, but pre-match team talks will now be making their first appearance in Football Manager - so you can send your team out onto the pitch with a specific briefing.

Customer Reviews

Good, but......
Football manager is a great game with great graphics but it's got problems.

The manual with the game is really confusing. You have to bounce around about 10 pages to find out how to be a nation, and it still doesn't tell you!

In game is really weird. teams like LSKA (Sofia) and other unheard teams are beating teams like Arsenal and Chelsea 10-0.

Finally, most rich teams like Barcelona have such small amounts of money. Barcelona have 3.48m!

A good overall game but get ready for problems. Still Highly reccommended.

DO NOT BUY THIS GAME!!!
I have spent just over one real time month in playing time in the last two years! While qualifying as value for money, it will consume your life! Even now I am finding small complexities I can change to assist in destroying the opposition, vast detail and attention to detail!

The most frustrating, pointless and un-rewarding game I have ever played
It's simple. You take charge of your favourite team, adopt a good formation, moral is high, you win your fist few games (home and away), you twiddle the tactics, and you think you are doing a great job. Your sitting top.
Then the game shows its true colours and the CD goes through the shredder. And here's why....

1. Results are pre-determined. You can play a team, at home, clear favourites, 40 times using every single tactic on the game, and you will still loose. How the game can call itself realistic when a team 2nd can get whipped 5-0 by a team 15 places below you with poor moral is beyond me. And not just once, twice, or three times, this happens most of the season.

2. Penalties. Be prepared to give one away every other game. It's usually when you can playing well and leading by a goal. This game says 'What? You're not allowed to win! Got out of here!'. The penno is scored, and that leaves you not only wanting to smash your laptop to peices, but with either a draw or a loss in a game you clearly should have won.

3. Opposition keepers. Yes, there truly are real Supermen on earth. Depeite total domination in the game (which is VERY rare) the oppostion keeper will save everything you throw at him. I am sick and tired of 'It's wide!' and 'Oooh it's over the bar!' every minute, when the oppotion then have one attack and score. That usually means you loose. Again.

4. Home and away. It's almost impossible to win away. Top morale and a high flying team count for nothing. Change tactics all you like, you will loose most away games in the season. This usually starts happening in the latter half of the season, but if you are doing well, the software will decide to introduce the 'impossible' win scenario sooner rather than later.

5. Transfers. What a waste of time. If you are a lower league team, you can't off load anyone without releasing them on a free and paying the price. You can only sell your best players which you obviously want to keep. You can't even give the others away free. And dont try and buy a decent player who really wants to join you. Even if the wage bill is acceptable, the board wont allow you to offer the wages reqested, and obviously as a result, the player will not sign. You can sign any old tripe, but not players that are beneficial to your setup. Damn frustrating. This means you have a massive wage bill and you are paying to get rid of players, loosing even more money. A vicious circle and an impossible situation.

6. Injuries. Yes, a regualar part of football, but this software will destroy the best players in your team with injuries just when they are peaking. Great for when you really need them the most, as most of the time, only 2 or 3 or your squad play decent anyway. This means there is even less chance of winning games than before, if there was a chance at all. Completely un-realistic tosh.

I think I have said enough. As you might of gathered, I detest this game and the rest of them in the series. I loved Champ Manager, hence why I have dug out (no pun) those games and began enjoying football manager sims again.

This game is a waste of your money and your time. Come on Sports Interactive, do you think we are stupid? There is nothing enjoyable about this title, just pure frustration. Do you really want to sit for hours on a game that is so un-rewarding it drags you down with it?

No, I didn't think so. So dont charge us for this rubbish.