

It really is becoming the 'Football RPG' that SI appears to want it to be.In fact, the more you play Football Manager, the farther the player-interaction element taps into your inherent desire to glean more information. All of these additions aren't just an excellent bonus, but (depending on how much you delve into using them) can make a real difference to the way you play and experience Football Manager. It's definitely a small step in the right direction for a game that on a football-strategy level doesn't have to be a great deal better than it is already. It gives it more personality, and in turn gives you, the manager, more personality and has a distinct effect on how others perceive you and react to you.īeing able to openly tap up a player through the media and slag them off is a superb move. Use arrows!Much like the manager mind games in 2006, the actual list of things to do is kept to a sensible limit (sensible in as much as it'd be exhausting to read through all the possible permutations if the list were any longer), but it's one of those things that's enormously welcome and does genuinely make a difference to the way you play the game on a micromanagement level. The cosy slipper of football tactics in all its regular glory. It's possibly one of the most brilliantly evil ideas that Sports Interactive's ever come up with, and of course we couldn't wait to put it to destructive use wherever possible. It's an idea that has a subtle but ultimately profound effect on your ability to gee up your squad and unsettle rivals. You might recall that last year's incarnation was a tentative step into the world of manager mind games, but this year's ups the ante considerably by extending the idea to players too. We could be flippant for the entire review, but the truth is that Sports Interactive know better than anyone that the relationship side of the game is practically half of what the job entails these days and it's no surprise to see much more effort going into this side of the game in this year's version.

£4.8 million after tax you say? 'No-one hands you cups on a plate.' This could be fun.I didn't see the incident. Dare we even speculate how a football manager really thinks in this money-obsessed age of bungs, divers and prima donna underwear models masquerading as professional sportsmen?Okay, let's get into character. Thompson's secret life as Ron Atkinson's therapist.Let's think sharpens knives. The Wikipedia entry will read like Hunter S. By then we'll have a castle in space and find ourselves eating dates off the toned backsides of nubile princesses and will laugh in the face of financial investigations. We don't want to end up the subject of a Panorama expose - not until we're close to making our first billion, anyway.

The back of the box asks us to 'think like a manager'. Football Manager 2007 Save Game Editor Online.
