Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7772 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Eidos
• Released on: 2007-11-02
• Platform: Windows XP

Manufacturer's Description

Think you can do better? It's your decisions that count: your budget, your buys, your formation, your tactics... your chance to prove it! Use your skills and knowledge to manage your club the way you feel it should be - now it's your turn. All football fans around the world, believe they know more about football than anybody else. More than the guy sat next to them at the match, more than the people commentating on the game, more than the manager of their local team. Championship Manager is the closest you'll ever come to the highs and lows of real football management.

Customer Reviews

It hit's the post!
I have now completed a good few seasons on CM 08, using different teams in different leagues. The good thing about this, is the amount of research that has been done, the variety of leagues that can be played, and the number of different nations you can pick to take part in...I think there is 24 nations for which you can play the leagues in...a thumbs up from that point of view.

However, the matchday format is poor....adding the "matchday highlights" was a poor decision, since they have not really mastered what a realistic game would look like using this. What I find extremely frustrating with this game is the unrealistic nature of how the goals are always scored...Now, not meaning to sound bitter, but despite my vigorous (and depressingly laborious) attempts to keep a solid defensive strategy from set-peices, every fooking time the opposition got a corner, they scored almost every time...now I had a few of the best defenders within my league playing for me, witgh some of the best trainers...and still, they would constantly make stupid mistakes, like putting a perfect direct-ball through to the oppositions strikerm who would invariably score....now, I hear you scream "well you're doing something wrong within the training schedule!" well, actually, the training options that are available are extremely basic and poor.....adding to my frustrations and lack of control of my players development.

I think that Eidos had tried to bite off way more than they could chew with this game...talking to the players never offered any options that I would actually like to say to them...the half-time team-talk options were never realistic nor in-parallel with what I would have liked to said to my players, the matchday video replays and the way in which players actually played was a joke...and the "pro-zone" was entirely ridiculous and a waste of time.

If they are to introduce these new features in future, please try to make a good go of them, instead of hashing them up, and creating numerous poor, useless features, that in fact detract from the game.

Also, quite a few glitches that I had noticed...one being that in the conference south english league, after every season, it appeared that instead of relegating the nominal 3 teams, it would actually relegate the 3 bottom teams, plus an additional 2 random teams, and promote 5 new "minor teams"....I would have been a little annoyed had that been me.

On the whole-

Good points:
Excellent research
A massive data base of players and teams that you can control
Good general team format and game interface
A little bit quicker than previous versions, I have noticed

Bad points:

Matchday highlights and in-game unrealistic
Talking to players and team-talk poor
Poor Training options
Laborious tactical options
Pro-zone a joke


My conclusion? Play world of warcraft until the next version comes out.

There is no way of telling the players what to do!
There is no game play here. When it comes to the most important bit of the game, the match day, there are no ways of changing tactics bar formation and player selection. The only options are 'long', 'direct', 'short'. There is no subtlety, no way of turning a game round.

The game is pick your players and hope. What a waste of time AND MY MONEY!

Quality
Excellent game, right up to its usual standard!!! Been playing the demo for the past 3 weeks and now i need the real thing!! The only drawback being, where you have the facility to talk to an unhappy player, there isn't the option to reassure the player that they were rested rather than dropped.