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Game Information
- Platform: Windows XP
- PEGI Rating: Ages 3 and Over
- Media: Video Game
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Product Features
- Updated club, player and staff data to the end of the August transfer window
- An increase of more than 25% of people in the database
- 27 playable nations now including the Australian League
- Ability to play with other user managers on one PC
- ProZone Analyst Feedback
- tendencies that modify how an individual player performs during a matchday
- Now function as units rather than as individuals with players now communicating between themselves
- Bonus DVD
- 10+ hours of Unreal Engine 3 toolkit video tutorials
- The history of Unreal Tournamen
- Behind the scenes of Unreal Tournament 3
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Product Description
Think you can do better? It`s your decisions that count: your budget, your buys, your formation, your tactics... your chance to prove it! Use your skills and knowledge to manage your club the way you feel it should be - now it`s your turn. All football fans around the world, believe they know more about football than anybody else. More than the guy sat next to them at the match, more than the people commentating on the game, more than the manager of their local team. Championship Manager is the closest you`ll ever come to the highs and lows of real football management.
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Most Helpful Customer Reviews
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Fun:
I have now completed a good few seasons on CM 08, using different teams in different leagues. The good thing about this, is the amount of research that has been done, the variety of leagues that can be played, and the number of different nations you can pick to take part in...I think there is 24 nations for which you can play the leagues in...a thumbs up from that point of view.
However, the matchday format is poor....adding the "matchday highlights" was a poor decision, since they have not really mastered what a realistic game would look like using this. What I find extremely frustrating with this game is the unrealistic nature of how the goals are always scored...Now, not meaning to sound bitter, but despite my vigorous (and depressingly laborious) attempts to keep a solid defensive strategy from set-peices, every fooking time the opposition got a corner, they scored almost every time...now I had a few of the best defenders within my league playing for me, witgh some of the best trainers...and still, they would constantly make stupid mistakes, like putting a perfect direct-ball through to the oppositions strikerm who would invariably score....now, I hear you scream "well you're doing something wrong within the training schedule!" well, actually, the training options that are available are extremely basic and poor.....adding to my frustrations and lack of control of my players development.
I think that Eidos had tried to bite off way more than they could chew with this game...talking to the players never offered any options that I would actually like to say to them...the half-time team-talk options were never realistic nor in-parallel with what I would have liked to said to my players, the matchday video replays and the way in which players actually played was a joke...and the "pro-zone" was entirely ridiculous and a waste of time.
If they are to introduce these new features in future, please try to make a good go of them, instead of hashing them up, and creating numerous poor, useless features, that in fact detract from the game.
Also, quite a few glitches that I had noticed...one being that in the conference south english league, after every season, it appeared that instead of relegating the nominal 3 teams, it would actually relegate the 3 bottom teams, plus an additional 2 random teams, and promote 5 new "minor teams"....I would have been a little annoyed had that been me.
On the whole-
Good points:
Excellent research
A massive data base of players and teams that you can control
Good general team format and game interface
A little bit quicker than previous versions, I have noticed
Bad points:
Matchday highlights and in-game unrealistic
Talking to players and team-talk poor
Poor Training options
Laborious tactical options
Pro-zone a joke
My conclusion? Play world of warcraft until the next version comes out.
However, the matchday format is poor....adding the "matchday highlights" was a poor decision, since they have not really mastered what a realistic game would look like using this. What I find extremely frustrating with this game is the unrealistic nature of how the goals are always scored...Now, not meaning to sound bitter, but despite my vigorous (and depressingly laborious) attempts to keep a solid defensive strategy from set-peices, every fooking time the opposition got a corner, they scored almost every time...now I had a few of the best defenders within my league playing for me, witgh some of the best trainers...and still, they would constantly make stupid mistakes, like putting a perfect direct-ball through to the oppositions strikerm who would invariably score....now, I hear you scream "well you're doing something wrong within the training schedule!" well, actually, the training options that are available are extremely basic and poor.....adding to my frustrations and lack of control of my players development.
I think that Eidos had tried to bite off way more than they could chew with this game...talking to the players never offered any options that I would actually like to say to them...the half-time team-talk options were never realistic nor in-parallel with what I would have liked to said to my players, the matchday video replays and the way in which players actually played was a joke...and the "pro-zone" was entirely ridiculous and a waste of time.
If they are to introduce these new features in future, please try to make a good go of them, instead of hashing them up, and creating numerous poor, useless features, that in fact detract from the game.
Also, quite a few glitches that I had noticed...one being that in the conference south english league, after every season, it appeared that instead of relegating the nominal 3 teams, it would actually relegate the 3 bottom teams, plus an additional 2 random teams, and promote 5 new "minor teams"....I would have been a little annoyed had that been me.
On the whole-
Good points:
Excellent research
A massive data base of players and teams that you can control
Good general team format and game interface
A little bit quicker than previous versions, I have noticed
Bad points:
Matchday highlights and in-game unrealistic
Talking to players and team-talk poor
Poor Training options
Laborious tactical options
Pro-zone a joke
My conclusion? Play world of warcraft until the next version comes out.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Fun:
There is no game play here. When it comes to the most important bit of the game, the match day, there are no ways of changing tactics bar formation and player selection. The only options are 'long', 'direct', 'short'. There is no subtlety, no way of turning a game round.
The game is pick your players and hope. What a waste of time AND MY MONEY!
The game is pick your players and hope. What a waste of time AND MY MONEY!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Fun:
This game franchise is fast becomming redundant, I have to admit that my laptop might not be as powerful as newer pc out there but the football manager 2008 game runs smoothly and gives you much better game. In this game I have found it nearly impossible to buy anyone from overseas and get a work permit, you cannot see the game played on screen like other games you cannot customise the training timetables, the game plods from on day to another and sometimes takes forever. I managed to do a whole weekends worth of washing up before I got from tuesday 08:00 to weds 08:00. Without some of the changes made to the game like there have been made to FM '08 like the different scouting network, and with the option of a feeder clubs, the game feels very dated only with some nuances here and there. Stick with Football Manager 2008 as this game feels like going to dinner and dancing with Raquel Welch when you were promised Angelina Jolie.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Trying Something New...
I really love Championship Manager... However by trying to over complicate things by including 3D graphics it is trying to achieve too much which has opened up room for error and... Read more
Published on 11 Nov 2009 by Sharmalita
A good game but there are better games out there
I have the demo and i thought it was quite good but then i got the fifa manager 08 demo and even without all its best features its a superioir game. Read more
Published on 12 July 2008 by T.S
Football Manager? My ****
This game is far superior to Football Manager 2008-I have both, so there is no bias at all. It is superior in every single aspect and I cannot believe that FM 08 is constantly... Read more
Published on 4 Jan 2008 by Will Lawson
JUST WRONG
You know instantly when a game is just wrong... this is that game. Let's start with the new electronic download which does away with the need for CD. Read more
Published on 30 Dec 2007 by BobinScotland
But Football Manager 2008
If you want a football manager simulator - get a decent game like Football Manager 2008 - which is the game Championship Manager could have been.
Published on 19 Dec 2007 by K. R. Carr
Great!
I really like this game, its much better than 2007! the layout is much better, the game is so simple to navigate around, the transfers are more realistic. Read more
Published on 23 Nov 2007 by J. Laing
Quality
Excellent game, right up to its usual standard!!! Been playing the demo for the past 3 weeks and now i need the real thing!! Read more
Published on 1 Nov 2007 by moore7
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