Product Description

Championship Manager gets its seasonal update with Championship Manager Season 03/04. The game showcases a whole host of new features and improvements including four new leagues, a pre-game database editor, the ability to view previously saved matches and updated player, team and competition data for the 03/04 season.

The game features 43 countries, leagues playable across more than 100 divisions, a database of more than 200,000 footballers from around the world and stats rated by an army of more than 2,500 researchers. Once again, ex-Liverpool player and regular TV pundit Ray Houghton has acted as the game's consultant to provide the ultimate in accuracy and authenticity.

As you have come to expect with any CM update, the game features updated data for the 03/04 season and a more intuitive training system--now handled on a single, clearly designed screen; new leagues; player and goal of the month awards, and improved AI.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3795 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Eidos
• Released on: 2003-11-21
• Rating: Parental Guidance
• Platforms: Windows NT, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows XP

Amazon.co.uk Review
It's perhaps unsurprising to kick off a review of Championship Manager Season 03/04 by instantly declaring it to be the finest football-management game on the planet. But, frankly, it is, and this latest seasonal update improves the game still further.

The objective is still the same. Taking charge of your team of choice, you're charged with meeting the expectations of the team's supporters and directors, while balancing the books, the highs and lows of your playing staff and hopefully winning a few games into the bargain. Plus trying to hang on to your job, of course.

What's always lifted the Championship Manager games well ahead of their rivals, many of whom deliver the same basic setup as above, are two factors. The first is depth. The sheer weight of statistics and complications you need to consider are both staggering and engrossing in equal measure. But that's when the second key factor kicks in: accessibility. With a finely tuned user interface, this is a desperately easy game to get into, albeit packed with an immense and highly addictive long term challenge. It's a real achievement that the player is rarely left stuck and bewildered by the wealth of information they're presented with.

This new version brings a few extra goodies into play as well, alongside a much-needed polish and tidy-up. Goal of the month and season competitions are incorporated for instance, along with live cup draws and expanded international sides. More importantly, factors such as the training and media segments of the game have been clearly tightened up, and the various statistics have been brought up-to-date.

A predictable conclusion, then: Championship Manager Season 03/04 is a superb game, and without question the best in its field by some way. It does, however, come with one caveat. Once you get into it, there's a real possibly that your social life will come to a crashing end. Don't say we didn't warn you. --Simon Brew

Manufacturer's Description
Improved media module;Player to player relationships;Updated data for the 03/04 season;New intuitive training system - effects of training now visually indicated on player profile screen;Improved match engine with more commentary, better AI, weather effects and inclusion of visual status indicators;Goal of the month and season awards

Customer Reviews

Best yet...
Where do I start? This game has cost me 2 days of the last 7, with its addictiveness, which is, incredibly, higher than previous versions of championship manager, such as 01/02, which i played to death. A new design came with cm4, but i never really took to that, i needed more persuading away from the CM3 format. well this game has gone and done it. Its' manager-player relationships, realism, and sheer playability make me lose hours of each day playing, when university work would probably be a far more sensible option. but this doesnt often happen, and before long 3am arrives, with me sitting somewhere near the top of the league following my acqusition of many scouted players, who were often poached with the help of dodgy contracts, all of which i am informed. you may think it sad, but to any football lover, like myself, this game truly brings me joy!

Championship Manager 03/04
Though i have always been a huge fan of the champ man series i was very dissipointed when i first played champ man 4 (previous sesons champ man), i felt it ran too slow and was too complicated. But i stuck with it and realised it was a huge improvement on the previous champ mans. The biggest thig is you get to watch your team play, even if in 2D format, it gives the chance too see a rising potential in a player or a disguised donkey amoung the team and give a manager extream satisfaction when a win is achieved or complete dissaray when things dont go to plan. As well as seeing your match there are other various improvments that make the game as class as it is, but in this update in champ man 03/04 things just seem to be better, more organised. As well as the obvious team updates there is a far better training structure which can bring great success or great failure, the players interact much more and the game seems to interact with you using the media and goals of the month awards etc. this make the game very enjoyable and the greatest football managing game ever, also its the last championship manager to be made by both si interactive and edios meaning it will probably be last great champ man.

This is the Game CM 4 should have Been
After having bought the bug ridden CM4 when it first came out and continued to play earlier incarations of the CM series alongside it for the challenge. Then updated CM4 with all the updates I can now say finally here is a game which truly is what the original CM4 should have been.

I have only so far played it for 5hrs solid and not yet got pass half way in a season but even so I am hooked so much so that my CM 01/02 programme and my saved games has be finally removed from my hard drive. This latest version is not so bewildering for any new convertee to this series of management games as to cause them to lose interest after a short period nor does it fail to provide something new to Old timers like myself. First impressions count and for me at least this is the game that CM4 should have been