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Football Manager 2009

Customer rating on Football Manager 2009: 4 out of 5 stars ( 139 customer ratings )

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Special Features

 

  • TV View. Watch your matches in new full screen TV view and customise your match day screen with widgets to view the information you need as a football manager, be it player performance, match action zones, pitch radar, latest scores and many more.
  • Assistant Manager Feedback. Pre-match and in-match feedback from your Assistant Manager on how the team is performing and your player's motivation levels, as well as hints on how your tactics are working and how you could outwit the opposition's tactics.
  • Press Conferences. Attend pre-match and post-match press conferences with local and national journalists and build up relationships with them over time, but choose your answers carefully because they could come back to haunt you in the media at a later date.
  • Transfer System. Completely new and re-written transfer system code, providing an even more realistic simulation of real-life football transfers.
  • Transfer Rumours. View the latest news on what players are being speculated on, and who's said to be interested in securing their services.
  • Board Confidence. Following on from its addition in Football Manager 2008, board confidence has been expanded and improved. In addition, the board will now also offer feedback on your squad harmony and your club's stature in the football world.
  • Preferred Moves. Train your players to learn 'preferred moves' to add to their game. For example, train central defenders to not dive into tackles, or wingers to do step-overs before crossing the ball.
  • Female Manager. For the very first time you can now play as a female manager. All of the text in the game now also has a female gender so the game represents female managers and staff in the game in the correct gender.

Review

 




The famous Football Manager match engine can now be viewed in full 3D with motion captured animations for the players. Sports Interactive has been working on the 3D match engine for nearly 3 years with the support of SEGA Japan's Virtua Striker team who provided the motion capture data and some of the animations. You can now watch your matches in 3D from multiple camera angles and re-watch any part of the match by fast forwarding and rewinding the action using a new match time bar that flags the key moments in the game. The old 2D view of the match engine is still there, especially for those people whose computers aren't powerful enough to take advantage of the 3D views.

FM2009 is fully updated for the new 2008/09 football season with all the latest league, club and player data, featuring over 5,000 playable clubs from over 50 countries, and around 350,000 players and staff from around the world, drawn fresh from the famous Sports Interactive database.

Customer Reviews

 

Customer rating on Football Manager 2009: 4 out of 5 stars

Average rating (139 reviews)

Customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars Be prepared for addiction!

COYICOYI | 11/12/2009 | See all COYICOYI's reviews (2) »

Great game and totally addictive. Having not played a fm game for a few years, I didn't know whether I'd get back into the swing of things... but I did and soon became addicted.

There are still the old cheats to employ too... e.g. take control of the team you have next on the fixture list for a laugh and play reserves out of position and down the sides of the pitch. I walloped Tottenham 39-0 this way and that itself was a laugh.

That aside, this is a great game and if you go into the editor, you can have more fun with player attributes and skills.

Customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars Awsome

Fewzzypop | 25/11/2009 | See all Fewzzypop's reviews (13) »

There seems to have been install problems when game was first out , due to so many copys trying to be registered at same time.

The problem is sorted so fear not.

If you loved fm08 etc then you will love this one , there the same game but with things added etc , it all makes upto a hell off a better game.

Best yet once you learn it all , dont down star it coz you arent that good on it , look at it for what it is , and it delivers on all fronts , aswome managment experience , and top of the league!

30 Games in and i am unbeaten! :)

Customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars Football Manager 2009

Glassno1 | 22/07/2009 | See all Glassno1's reviews (2) »

Football Manager is as addictive as ever, which on its own makes it enjoyable to play, however there are certain aspects of the game that make it frustrating:

I've started several games on it now and I've found it very hard to get teams promoted whilst playing with lower league teams - the amount of injuries I'm getting is not helping my cause either, even switching formations, tactics etc is not helping.

Whilst the injuries that I'm getting and the lack of change from different tactics is frustrating, you will still enjoy this game if your a fan of FM like me.

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Technical Details

 

3+ (PEGI)

Windows XP / Vista

XP requirements:
1.4GHz Intel Pentium 4, Intel Core, AMD Athlon or equivalent
512MB RAM
2GB HDD Space
128MB nVidia FX 5900 Ultra, ATi Radeon 9800, Intel 82915G/82910GL or equivalent
Sound Card (DirectX 9.0c compatible)
DirectX 9.0c (included)
LAN: TCP/IP compliant
4x speed DVD-ROM Drive
Keyboard and mouse

Vista requirements:
2GHz Intel Pentium 4, Intel Core, AMD Athlon or equivalent
1GB RAM
2GB HDD Space
128MB nVidia FX 5900 Ultra, ATi Radeon 9800, Intel 82915G/82910GL or equivalent
Sound Card (DirectX 9.0c compatible)
DirectX 9.0c (included)
LAN: TCP/IP compliant
4x speed DVD-ROM Drive
Keyboard and mouse

Earlier cards may only display 2D Match Viewer Mode and are not supported. Laptop versions of the above chipsets may work but are not supported.
This information is based on specifications supplied by manufacturers and should be used for guidance only.