3D Football Manager 2009 (the greates job on earth)
I’ve been playing FM since about 1993, and now, the Football Manager series enters yet another season, and this year, expectations are higher than ever. Strength in depth has been added with around 80 new features, hype has been spread in a promising pre-season and a new superstar performer – a 3D match engine – has transformed the look of the series.
Other new 3D match engine features include a time bar borrowed from Football Manager Live, allowing you to rewind the action. There’ll also be a new TV-style view that provides full-screen options and a customisable selection of widgets such as player ratings. FM09 will also possess plenty of evolutionary features. Assistant managers will provide exhaustive feedback about how you and the opposition are playing, a feature that hardcore players will no doubt snort at, but one which could prove invaluable to newcomers.
Media interaction is also being revamped, with press conferences taking place before and after each match and when starting out at a new club. Press conferences will involve journalists firing questions at you, to which you’ll respond from a selection of five replies. However, make too many unsubstantiated statements and those pesky journos will quickly and gleefully remind you of your predications should you fail to deliver on your promises. If it all gets too much, you’ll even be able to throw a hissy fit and storm out.
Finally, good news for female fans as for the first time you’ll no longer have to pretend to be a boy (unless you really want to), thanks to a new female manager option. Or should that be manageress?
With more reveals promised over the coming months via a series of podcasts and with a demo in the works (set for public release a few weeks before FM09 ships), there’s more than a little to be getting excited about. After one too many years of evolutionary shuffles, it seems the Football Manager series could be about to take that all important revolutionary leap we’ve all been waiting for.
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