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Game Information
- Platform: Windows NT / 98 / 2000 / Me / XP
- PEGI Rating: Ages 3 and Over
- Media: Video Game
- Item Quantity: 1
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Product Features
- Brand new 2D match engine allows you to watch your team play. View the whole match or just view the highlights
- Play 39 national leagues, with more than 200,000 players and staff
- Enhanced Manager features for transfers, tactics, training and coaching
- Fully skinable interface to personalise your playing experience. Two new skins available at launch with more to follow
- Exhaustively researched by a global team of scouts to ensure absolute accuracy - there is no more realistic management experience
- Developed with tactical advice from former Liverpool and Republic of Ireland star Ray Houghton
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Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
Championship Manager 4 is the latest in the long line of football sims to come out of the Eidos/Sports Interactive Games doors, and followers of the ever popular series will not be disappointed. With over 200,000 players and staff across 39 national leagues, footy fans will delight in the level of detail once again realised--in fact to some it might be slightly mind boggling.
New to the game are a number of features including a 2-D match mode that allows you to watch the game unfold, giving you the chance to manage and change positions accordingly when it comes to passing and shooting tactics. Greater emphasis has been placed on training, and the game gives you the chance to assign specific schedules. This of course gives you even more responsibility in making your players "match fit" for the season ahead, and towards the end of the season your decisions become crucial if you plan to get your boys promoted.
Other new additions include an enhanced contract negotiation system, a more efficient easier-to-use network play arena and, for those who want it, a skinable interface.
In short, this is the most in-depth football sim you'll find on the market. If you are a footy fan then this game will make you loose plenty of sleep. The new features add much-needed elements for the fan base that want more, though they may just be a distraction to the hard-core stat fanatics that rush to buy this title every time it's updated. If you're a football fan this is a must, and if your not, give it a go, you might just love the nation's favourite game after all. --Jason Denwood
Product Description
Championship Manager 4 is the next generation of football management games, offering more players, leagues and competitions than any other title. For the first time ever in the series, Championship Manager 4 features a real-time 2D match engine enabling you to make tactical decisions as the action unfolds. Watch the whole 90 minutes in real time or choose to view crucial match highlights.
In addition, this version introduces a whole host of new management options and features to offer an unparalleled level of detail. Championship Manager 4 provides the option to fully customise the training of your team, enabling managers to assign specific schedules. Other new additions include an enhanced contract negotiation system, a more efficient, easy-to-use network game option and totally skinable interface. Developed in close association with former Republic of Ireland and Liverpool star Ray Houghton to guarantee ultimate realism, Championship Manager 4 is the greatest leap the series has ever taken.
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Just a bad game,
By A Customer
This review is from: Championship Manager 4 (Video Game)
Having been a CM fanatic for many years, i first played the game on the amiga many years ago, i couldnt wait for this game. I queued up for a good hour in my lunch break to buy it on the release date, then had to wait till i finished work to play it. When i did load it and start, i couldnt believe my eyes. First are the graphics. The previous games are all a simple design and very familar set outs, but this one changes all the good points of the other ones and basically starts again. Not the best idea when you have a best selling game title which most people own and are used to. The next thing i noticed was how painfully slow the game is. You could easily complete a season in a days playing, so addictive were the other games, but you would be lucky to finish 10 games in the same time now. This is partly due to the setting out of everthing, which will become easier after time, but mainly due to the loading time after you click continue. It seems to go through every fixtures score of every team in every country, which is displayed at the bottom of the screen. A long time. Then there is the training. Its just so complicated it is stupid. I cant say more because i didnt even attempt to try it. There are some great additions to this game, like the option to offer players to interested clubs rather then wait to see if they bid, and to offer clubs the chance to loan your players even if they show no interest. Also there are improved transfer options. Now you can enquiry after a player and get a price if they want to sell, or just get told where to go. This is an excellent idea. Saying that, you cant really afford to buy anyone as if you enquire you normally get an answer that they want £20-30 million, and you only get a 'healthy'(not my words,the games) £10 million to spend. And this was as arsenal. Then theres the wage cap you get. Good idea, but the thing i liked about the other games were the fact you could do whatever you wanted with the money. If you wanted 20 world class players on £80,000 a week then you could, now you can have 3 key players and 5 important first team players and thats as good as it gets. The final point i noticed was the fact you cant tell whos interested in coming to you in the transfer list. The older games you could filter out uninterested players and know you could get all other players, now you can only ask your assistant to filter out unrealistic targets, which leaves you with about 3 players. Overall the game is just a huge disappointment
17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
The Beginning of the End for Champiano,
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This review is from: Championship Manager 4 (Video Game)
For those of you who are completely new to the world of Championship Manager, (you are a minority - and shame on you) CM4 might seem like a decent footy management sim. But for die-hard fans who have spent countless nights pursiung succesful seasons with our favourite clubs in Champiano 01/02 (thats the name on the street), CM4 will be a huge disappointment.Its a real let-down and a shame really, after waiting for so long. Well, what exactly is wrong with the game? Its actually very difficult to know where to start. Firstly, the most obvious negative point is the speed of the game. CM4 is TERRIBLY slow, especially during a match when commentary is supposed to be running at a 'very fast speed' but doesn't really go very quick at all. Then there's the pathetic looking 2D option which looks like watching pool balls hit a very tiny white cue ball. Another minor point which displeases me about CM4 is the fact that I feel as though whatever I do during a match will not affect the outcome of the result, i.e. substitutions, tactical changes etc. make little difference. In conclusion, it is not worth buying CM4 if you are any sort of a fan. If you are that curious, then buy CM 2001/2002 and download the updated stats for last season. Or buy the best football game ever - Pro Evo 2 on the playstation. AVOID CM4!!
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
More Ultimate Soccer Manager than Championship Manager,
This review is from: Championship Manager 4 (Video Game)
Having waited 18 months for the release of cm4 i was expecting a masterpiece that had taken all the good things from cm01/02 and made them even better, what did i get, a game that requires a patch as soon as you install it otherwise half the features don't work such as player historys, a game that runs so slowly that the weeks are almost real time. I kid you not.Don't get me wrong some of the new features are impressive such as the 2d match engine but with the introduction of training screens and the new "skin" it feels more like Ultimate Soccer Manager.
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