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( - 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.
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.
Average rating (60 reviews)
Well done SI
Diddymow | 28/11/2008 | See all Diddymow's reviews (3) »
Another year another brilliant Football Manager :). This game is amazingly addictive and much better than the last version. My only complaint is that I seem to be getting an unusual amount of injuries.
Continuation of Brilliance
JewFro | 28/11/2008 | See all JewFro's reviews (11) »
I have been hooked to Si Games' Football Manager since the old Championshuip Manager series (before the SI/Eidos split) and I got my first version in 93 (Championship Manager 93). 15 years down the line, the game has improved so drastically, but it remains the only management game out there that is so lifelike it will not be beaten, Eidos may try, but SI games has the database which is all that matters really, and backed up by Sega, the graphics are hardly a let down are they now?
They introduced a 3D match engine into this one, and the sheer size of the game meant it was simplly too much for my 6 year old laptop to handle, but once I booted it into my PC, it ran like a dream and I am well and truly hooked. The 3D match engine is that minor improvement that the game needs each year to keep you coming back for more, I doff my hat to you SI, keep churning these games out and you will keep me as an ardent user of your produce.
Wooooo...
TheRedDevil10 | 28/11/2008 | See all TheRedDevil10's reviews (6) »
I don't understand why people are complaining about this. It's another great game from the greatest series. I buy it each year and they get better. The 3d match engine actually helps, you can see how your players are properly playing. And the press conferences are good for motivating players. But you don't have to use either of these and can go back to a 2d engine or just commentary.
And for the guy who's managed to get an injury a game...be realistic. I doubt you've got an injury a game and if you've actually ever played a game of football you'd realise that injurys are really common and players picks up knocks and bumps. Its not a non-contact game. But that's what this game is, realistic.
3+ (PEGI) |
