Comments on: Kick Him Out: Football Manager 2010 Demo

By: y2rich

y2rich — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 07:40:11 +0000

Add into the fact FM uses the same scouts for player stats as professional teams use and they as has been said, they've been working on this game for something like 16 years whereas CM in this design has only been going since the SI/Eidos split 6 or so years ago.

By: Johnny Go-Time

Johnny Go-Time — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 02:37:06 +0000

@Jockie:
Ok Jockie, thanks…I will give it a try after my CM season wraps up, see if I can tell the difference…

By: Jockie

Jockie — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:52:03 +0000

@ Johnny
I haven't actually played this years CM, so I may be a bit off base here. But the reason I choose FM over CM, is because the team behind it have been developing and refining their game since around 1994, their match engine & tactical knowledge is as close to real life as you'll get. It actually scales pretty nicely in terms of being overly complex and friendly to beginners at the same time this time around also and the new interface is slick.

The demo is half a seasons play, so i'm sure you'll find out whether or not it's for you in that time-frame (It'll take considerably more than 20 minutes)

By: Johnny Go-Time

Johnny Go-Time — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:12:45 +0000

I know very little about football so I don’t care about the accuracy of player stats and salaries etc…But when Championship Manager 2010 came out recently with their “pay-what-you-want” I tried it out…And I love it!

But games of this ilk are not easy to just jump into for 20mins…Can somebody tell me why I might like this game better than ChampMan? Thanks…

By: mootpoint

mootpoint — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:25:40 +0000

Now the only thing I hope for is a quick button for setting up your own team in the lowest division and giving it players automatically. Then spend the rest of the (real) year getting them to champions league. As it stands I have to spend half a year just picking players I’ve never heard about :)

By: Jimbo

Jimbo — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:03:04 +0000

Anybody notice the ‘EXCLUSIVE! FREE! EXCLUSIVE! FREE COPY OF FOOTBALL MANAGER 10! EXCLUSIVE DAILY MIRROR OFFER FREE ONLY TODAY FREE!’ in the Mirror today? I think it’s this demo.

By: Owyn

Owyn — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:36:13 +0000

The demo is awesome.

Love the new skin and the whole new tactics thing. Trequartista? Yes please.

By: y2rich

y2rich — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:38:12 +0000

Duffin said:
This is going to destroy my degree.

It destroyed mine. There was something so satisfying about defeating my housemate in the Champions League final 4-3 after being 3-0 down at half time.

By: Mr Bismarck

Mr Bismarck — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:25:28 +0000

Long time fan of the FM(CM) series all the way back to the Amiga, but haven’t enjoyed a version of FM since ’06. UNTIL NOW. Got the demo and I’m loving it like a fuzzy sock filled with kittens.

I should be able to play this and keep some semblance of a social life provided the release date isn’t anywhere near The Void’s…

Oh.

By: Duffin

Duffin — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:17:19 +0000

This is going to destroy my degree.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:09:49 +0000

I love the demo and immediately pre-ordered it. And about it being slow, I don’t know how you usually play it, but I get through a season in roughly 14 hours (which fit nicely in two weeks). You could do it a lot faster, but now, thanks to the tactics editor and the match analysis, it could take more than twice the time I usually spend on a season.

Still, two weeks until the real fun start. I’ll probably spent the first hours on scouting the new database. Already looking forward to it.

By: OGRank

OGRank — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:40:48 +0000

I will start playing these games again once they will let me import my savegames from the version of the previous year.