Championship Manager: Season 01-02 (PC CD)

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Editorial reviews

Amazon.co.uk Review
And so the final update of Championship Manager in its current guise arrives, instantly taking its place as the best football management simulation on any format.

As well as the tightening up of the game engine, which allows the game to run slightly faster, numerous diverting new features have been added. For instance, you can choose not to know lots of information about a player until you've scouted them, you can compare players, the new transfer system has been implemented and heck, you can even issue an ultimatum to the board.

As with most Championship Manager improvements, none of these change the game dramatically, but they do add to the depth and realism that has won the franchise the widespread support it enjoys today. It's still as utterly engrossing as ever, and liable to keep you addicted to your PC for hours at a time. Those who like the football management games devoid of mountains of stats as ever are advised to steer clear.

But for the hundreds of thousands of fans of the series, this is yet another polished, enjoyable new edition of the game, which, after all these years, is still without a quality competitor. Roll on Championship Manager 4. --Simon Brew

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Customer reviews

review by: Computer Whizz date: 2007-09-01 rating:
PURE BRILLIANCE
This is the master of every single football manager game. No doubt about that. Apart from maybe some of the transfer prices this is a very realistic game, especially the socres. Forget Football Manager, this is the best, EVER!! I will agree the later Championship Manager games hav been dissapointing, but this stands out from every otha game. A must buy for all fans of Football.

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review by: date: 2005-08-20 rating:
The Complete Game,,,,neigh.......LIFE EXPERIENCE
Its simple, this is the greatest management game of all time.
if you like football and have ever wanted to realise how difficult it is to control a fully fledged football team this is your chance.
From trawling the slums of brazil for the star of the future or outbidding a major european contender for that elusive WORLD CLASS striker to a dog fight from relegation or your STAR centre half tearing his ligaments and missing 9 months of the new season,you just wont find a better game.period.
this game doesnt end.you will be playing this game in 25 years

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review by: date: 2005-07-20 rating:
This Game Hates Me
Initially, this game will transfix anyone. It's just so huge - you can spend hours picking through every club in the world looking for those 100k future stars, or throwing ridiculous amounts of money at Real Madrid to cough up Roberto Carlos.

But then pre-season ends and you've got a handsome looking squad and tactics meticulously moulded around their strengths. On paper, the Premiership - or the J-League 1 maybe - is pretty much yours already.

Step onto the pitch and your star squad is trounced. By everyone. EVERYONE. Teams two divisions below you knock you out of cups. You drift in and out of the relegation zone in the league. Your keeper gets suspended, three of your four first team strikers are injured. Ominous comments appear in your players' profiles : "Has lost confidence in his manager's ability" "Feels the team has more potential than it is showing" along with the dreaded "Wants to move to a bigger club" and "Feels he made a mistake joining...". All the while th omnipotent Board of Directors announce their disappointment "with the team's performance in the match against..." everyone.

Call me soft, but I really don't see the fun in having a computer-game script bully me. It's just not nice playing a game that itself decides, despite any logic or reason, that you will lose THIS game, and THIS one, maybe you'll draw THIS one to get your hopes up but not to worry, you'll lose THIS one right afterwards too.

If you like games to be entertaining maybe even a little fun, you shouldn't play Champ Manager 01/02.

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review by: anon date: 2005-02-23 rating:
A game you will either LOVE or HATE
Before reading this review i suggest you ask yourself what kind of game your looking for. Those who praise LMA Manager like i once have where searching for a quick easy transfer frenzy. Total CLub Manager offers no more than a large transfer kitty and guarranteed success. Championship Manager 01/02 is the peak of the series and i fear that it has gone into dicline since then. But for this read on.

Championship Manager demands a player who lives, eats and breathes football. You will adore it and find yourself addicted or you will reject it completely. There isn't an in between. You need to understand, inside out everything that happens in and out of your club. An over-large wage bill or the wrong training techniques may send you into managerial decline.

Your transfer activity will determine alot of how well you do. Your £25 million pound striker may score your goals, but your £750k 18 yeart old talent from south america may be the star player of the future. Transfer fees are quite realsitic and clubs around you will not be scared to spend, unlike Total Club where nobody other than you spends?!

This game can reward your effort with a thrilling managerial experience matched by absoloutly nothing.Even the modern day equivilants. Beware though if you go half way to the amount of effort you put in, then the amazing in-depth gaming experience will not be there for you.

I am currently in my 17th season. That means Beckham and Shevchenko have long retired and Fernanado Morientes has just recieved the sack with Toledo. Even with the games made up players i still cannot stop and leave this game. This GAME NEVER LOSES ITS TOUCH. BUY IT NOW or go for the medicre TCM or LMA


review by: dan_nba_fan date: 2004-05-27 rating:
Where did the years go!
This game is very addictive if you are into footy manager games. It should come with a warning! I was hooked straight away and I have lost hours, days, weeks, months to this game, even jobs! I just can't stop. I've played a few of the later editions of this game and I can easily rate this as the best. I've been playing Champ Managers since the Amiga versions (which rocked also!). It's easier than the later additions to get into and easier to pick up. You can virtually do what ever you want. The database is huge and ok so the teams wont be as up-to-date as real life but all the famous player of today are in there so build the squads yourself. Highly recommended, it is the easiest version to use.

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