Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #11145 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Feral Interactive
• Released on: 2000-12-15
• Platform: Macintosh
• Number of items: 1

Amazon.co.uk Review
Time to dig out your sheepskin car-coat and practise your half-time tantrums: Championship Manager with a new season and it's bigger, and better, than ever.

This time round you can have up to 26 leagues running at one time (depending on the specs of your PC/Mac) and the wealth of tactics and options on offer are enough to test any budding Arsene Wengers or Alex Fergusons.

True, the gameplay hasn't changed much, but it's the wealth and depth of stats on offer that brings back Champ Manager fans season after season. The other secret to its continuing appeal is it offers the chance to steer your beloved Third Division no-hopers to League and Cup glory, something that most Premiership-fixated arcade football games overlook.

There are some new demands on your managerial competence: as well as the usual training, transfer market and staffing issues you now have to deal with the media, and the psychological well-being of your players is now as important as their physical health. As before the actual match is played out in text format, which sounds dull, but quickly becomes alarmingly compulsive.

Championship Manager is probably not for the casual gamer as it is impossible to just dip into, but for those footy fans who KNOW they can run a football team better than 99 percent of professional managers, it is a must. Just don't expect much of a social life over the next few months. --Michael Bartley

Customer Reviews

Best Football Manager sim by far
I have ben using the CM series since CM2 on the PC and every new version includes features that you'd been thinking of during the last one. Now on the Mac it is the perfect sport strategy game and completely addictive. I may not have a life anymore but Union Berlin have risen from the depths of non-league obscurity and are challenging for a place in the Bundesliga. Just brilliant, what more can they add?

Great, slightly better than 99/00
This is a standard CM game, which means it's exceptional. The graphics arent flashy, but it's more addictive than any other game in history. There's a few minor updates from CM 99/oo that improve the game play, and are so easy they'll fit right in. My only complain is the loading times(although a G4 with 1.5 gigs of RAM will sort that). Buy it now.

Best game ever!
I love this game. I have done for Cardiff when Sam Hammam is curently on the way to doing. Getting them into the Prem. The only thing is I have worn out the CD and so can't play it, thats how addictive it is! If you ever get 1 game, I have to recomend this! They think its all over, it is now!