Football Manager 2007 (PC CD)

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Editorial reviews

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

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Customer reviews

review by: date: 2008-07-05 rating:
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.

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review by: date: 2008-07-04 rating:
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!

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review by: date: 2008-04-01 rating:
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.

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review by: date: 2008-03-13 rating:
Addictive..but worth it!
I started off on the original champ manager series which has now evolved into the FM series. If you watch, play and talk footy this is the game for you!

In this game you basically manage any team in any leage (or nation) that you choose. Your management board will have objectives for the year which they expect you to accomplish. Buy or sell players, change team strategy and build your squad to meet these objectives. Do whatever you want but just like in the real football world, winning is what counts!

This is highly addicitve game with so many features and characteristics that you could spend hours just working on tactics for your team. I simply cannot put this game down and have to force myself to stop playing.

FM2007 is one of the best games out there and I believe its available on most platforms. Get this game if you want a serious challenge!!!!







review by: AWhite date: 2008-03-12 rating:
Football Manager 2007- The Review
I can remember when I got my first ever manager game. It was Premier Manager '98, and when I first had the premise explained to me on Christmas morning, I couldn't believe how boring it sounded. So you don't even play the game? You just pick the team and watch it? In my infinite wisdom, that all 11 year olds have, I genuinely thought that was the lamest excuse for a plot that a computer game had ever come up with.

That game turned out to be one of the most important parts of my life for the next four years.

I was hooked, I never even watched the games because I couldn't wait that long to find out if we had won or not. I just switched it to `results' mode and powered through a season in half an hour.

That game is now gathering dust somewhere, but since then I have had five other manager games, including LMA manager, Championship Manager, even Alex Ferguson's very own manager game (which wasn't very good.)

My most recent acquisition is Football Manager 2007. And although I'm not quite as hooked as I was in the early days of adolescence, it's still amazing how quickly a Sunday afternoon can disappear once I've loaded it up.

It is, in my opinion, the best manager game of all time. The emphasis on bringing players through the youth system and nurturing them before they are ready for regular first team action is better than on previous versions. You can no longer just take your star youth team player and make him your first choice striker as, even though his stats may be high, his performances will more than likely be poor until he gets settled into the setup.

The training and tactics screens are simpler to use than before, yet if you want to spend time perfecting a set piece or a training schedule then that option is there. Transfers seem pretty realistic, although having never witnessed a real life football transfer go through I couldn't be sure of that. Then there is the pressure of getting your star players to sign long term deals before the bigger clubs come poaching.

The in-game menu is better with the 2D screen. In some of the older Championship Manager games there was just text commentary during the game so it was difficult to assess whether your tactics were working. But with the 2D screen this can be clearly seen. I'm sure that in the future it will be a 3D video of the game, but for the moment this is the best option.

It gets easier as you get used to the game, and you get to know which players to sign. For example I always went for Nicholas Millan from Colo Colo in Chile, Bojan and Giovani dos Santos from Barcelona and Vincent Kompany from Anderlecht. Well, that was when I was managing a club with some money. Whenever I was my beloved Burnley I didn't have enough money or a high enough reputation for any one of those players, never mind all of them!

The only downside with manager games is that, with the constantly moving transfer market, they get outdated very quickly. For example I have only had this game for less than a year and already half of a team's line-up are now no longer at the club.

This means that it is a very lucrative business for Sega and Sports Interactive as they can update the same game and do a little bit of tinkering to the game-play and then sell it as a completely new game, knowing that hundreds of thousands of dedicated fans across the world will flock to buy it (me included).

In conclusion they're a brilliant series of computer games that football fans everywhere will love, but beware! They are so addictive that I'd put money that people have lost jobs and strained their relationships over Football Manager at some point.

I'm yet to upgrade to Football Manager '08 but it's on my birthday wish list.

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Accessories

Saitek Cyborg EVO Joystick (PC)
Cordless Rumblepad II (Refresh) PC Gamepad
Extreme 3D Pro PC Joystick
Logic3 Rumble Pad - USB Game Pad (PC)
Joytech USB Neo S Controller (PC)

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