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- Platform: Windows NT / 98 / 2000 / Me / XP
- PEGI Rating: Ages 3 and Over
- Media: Video Game
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Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
It's perhaps unsurprising to kick off a review of Championship Manager Season 03/04 by instantly declaring it to be the finest football-management game on the planet. But, frankly, it is, and this latest seasonal update improves the game still further.
The objective is still the same. Taking charge of your team of choice, you're charged with meeting the expectations of the team's supporters and directors, while balancing the books, the highs and lows of your playing staff and hopefully winning a few games into the bargain. Plus trying to hang on to your job, of course.
What's always lifted the Championship Manager games well ahead of their rivals, many of whom deliver the same basic setup as above, are two factors. The first is depth. The sheer weight of statistics and complications you need to consider are both staggering and engrossing in equal measure. But that's when the second key factor kicks in: accessibility. With a finely tuned user interface, this is a desperately easy game to get into, albeit packed with an immense and highly addictive long term challenge. It's a real achievement that the player is rarely left stuck and bewildered by the wealth of information they're presented with.
This new version brings a few extra goodies into play as well, alongside a much-needed polish and tidy-up. Goal of the month and season competitions are incorporated for instance, along with live cup draws and expanded international sides. More importantly, factors such as the training and media segments of the game have been clearly tightened up, and the various statistics have been brought up-to-date.
A predictable conclusion, then: Championship Manager Season 03/04 is a superb game, and without question the best in its field by some way. It does, however, come with one caveat. Once you get into it, there's a real possibly that your social life will come to a crashing end. Don't say we didn't warn you. --Simon Brew
Product Description
Championship Manager gets its seasonal update with Championship Manager Season 03/04. The game showcases a whole host of new features and improvements including four new leagues, a pre-game database editor, the ability to view previously saved matches and updated player, team and competition data for the 03/04 season.
The game features 43 countries, leagues playable across more than 100 divisions, a database of more than 200,000 footballers from around the world and stats rated by an army of more than 2,500 researchers. Once again, ex-Liverpool player and regular TV pundit Ray Houghton has acted as the game's consultant to provide the ultimate in accuracy and authenticity.
As you have come to expect with any CM update, the game features updated data for the 03/04 season and a more intuitive training system--now handled on a single, clearly designed screen; new leagues; player and goal of the month awards, and improved AI.
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Most Helpful Customer Reviews
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Where do I start? This game has cost me 2 days of the last 7, with its addictiveness, which is, incredibly, higher than previous versions of championship manager, such as 01/02, which i played to death. A new design came with cm4, but i never really took to that, i needed more persuading away from the CM3 format. well this game has gone and done it. Its' manager-player relationships, realism, and sheer playability make me lose hours of each day playing, when university work would probably be a far more sensible option. but this doesnt often happen, and before long 3am arrives, with me sitting somewhere near the top of the league following my acqusition of many scouted players, who were often poached with the help of dodgy contracts, all of which i am informed. you may think it sad, but to any football lover, like myself, this game truly brings me joy!
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Though i have always been a huge fan of the champ man series i was very dissipointed when i first played champ man 4 (previous sesons champ man), i felt it ran too slow and was too complicated. But i stuck with it and realised it was a huge improvement on the previous champ mans. The biggest thig is you get to watch your team play, even if in 2D format, it gives the chance too see a rising potential in a player or a disguised donkey amoung the team and give a manager extream satisfaction when a win is achieved or complete dissaray when things dont go to plan. As well as seeing your match there are other various improvments that make the game as class as it is, but in this update in champ man 03/04 things just seem to be better, more organised. As well as the obvious team updates there is a far better training structure which can bring great success or great failure, the players interact much more and the game seems to interact with you using the media and goals of the month awards etc. this make the game very enjoyable and the greatest football managing game ever, also its the last championship manager to be made by both si interactive and edios meaning it will probably be last great champ man.
16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
After having bought the bug ridden CM4 when it first came out and continued to play earlier incarations of the CM series alongside it for the challenge. Then updated CM4 with all the updates I can now say finally here is a game which truly is what the original CM4 should have been.
I have only so far played it for 5hrs solid and not yet got pass half way in a season but even so I am hooked so much so that my CM 01/02 programme and my saved games has be finally removed from my hard drive. This latest version is not so bewildering for any new convertee to this series of management games as to cause them to lose interest after a short period nor does it fail to provide something new to Old timers like myself. First impressions count and for me at least this is the game that CM4 should have been
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Very Good
The game is very good for the gamer looking for fun rather than depth, which newer games give. In my opinion, the game is value for money and delivery is very quick
Published 15 months ago by United No1 Fan
MOST ADDICTIVE GAME EVER!
I got this game at a charity shop for 1.50 and I was not disappointed.
This game simply is great. Read more
This game simply is great. Read more
Published 17 months ago by Will Aubert
A classic
Well what can i say, out of all of the Champ'Manager games that i've played (and that's most of them!) this is by far my favourite season. Read more
Published 23 months ago by Viking
A Fine End To A Fine Series
he Championship Manager games have long been regarded as the best football management games around, this is reflected in the amount of games published and sold. Read more
Published on 12 Jan 2007 by Simon Ball
why get anything else its wicked
This is an outstanding game the 2d matches are great as you can tell if a players playing well and the crowd(noise)are involved as they sing chants. Read more
Published on 31 Jan 2006 by Jonny Ross-Tatam
Great Game
This game is fantastic! The best one! The 2D pitch gives a good idea of what is happening and how good players are, while the transfer system is much more realistic! Read more
Published on 16 Oct 2005
amazing game
this game is fabulous I was a new person too football management game and it was eaesy to understand and you really got addicked too it. Read more
Published on 5 Jan 2005 by peter
Good but overrated
CM 03-04 is definitely the most realistic football management simulation on the PC. The database is good, the 2d match AI is quite realistic and the interface is easy to use which... Read more
Published on 12 Sep 2004 by Mr. A. Rothnie
Champ Is Back To its Best!
all what I Have To say is 4get about all other reviews this game is best champ ever just forget about the speed of the computer and play the game it gets addictive though.
Published on 29 Aug 2004 by "orfordlee"
Championship Manager 03/04
If you thought that CM4 was good, then you are going to be absolutely stunned by this game. The stats are up to date, the match engine is better, the transfers are more realistic... Read more
Published on 8 Aug 2004
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