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23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Still The Best Football Management Game on PS2 , 16 Sep 2006
Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars
I have been dutifully buying LMA and the old January Transfers LMAs for years now and it's one of the few games I buy on the day it is released. After playing the new 2007 version, I can say that it does take some steps forward from LMA 2006. There isn't a great deal of change from 2006, just minor alterations here and there. For example, goalkeepers have seemed to stop catching high balls and falling backwards over the goal line. Also, you can now buy and sell players in their first season at a new club and if you put your players on the transfer list, foreign clubs take an interest whereas in 2006 only English clubs seemed to make offers for your players.
Indeed, the game has been polished and improved, but there is no radical departure from the previous instalments. It's basically the same game as 2006, but with several small problems ironed out. Speaking as a guy who's been buying the same £30 game for years, I couldn't care less that nothing has really changed. I just wanted to play around with the brand new, updated squad of the premiership side I love. I wanted to play God to the new players that my team bought in the summer. To be honest, that's why I keep buying this game ... the updated databases (with the proper, official player names, of course). However, you should be warned that you need to download off the internet the more recent transfers that went through towards the end of the transfer window. Without the download, William Gallas is still a Chelsea player and Ashley Cole is still an Arsenal player in the game, for example.
You could buy LMA 2006 on the cheap and update your team yourself in the transfer market so it looks like your teams current squad, but often the players don't have the rating/value that they have in real life. I'm not a Man United fan, but as an example, there's no way you could get Michael Carrick 9 out of 10 overall rating and an £18.6m value unless you buy the 2007 game.
There are some small gripes with the game. For example, 4-5-1 formations are used all the time in football today, but it is still absent from this game. Also, why don't free kicks ever hit the wall like in real football? Moreover, there are some very unrealistic transfer moves during the first season like John Terry going to Newcastle and Gary Neville going to Chelsea. This said, if you are looking for a football management game on the PS2, there is nothing that touches this. Recommended to new and old fans of LMA.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Best Manager Game For Live Action Matches., 6 Jun 2007
Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars
This game has an impressive - though not flawless - 3D match engine, which makes it a cut above other manager games. The game is also structured so that you can progress without looking at pages and pages of figures. I find it a good development of LMA 2005. For people who like football, not statistics, this is the manager game of choice.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Lma manager 2007- The good and the bad!, 27 April 2007
Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars
Lma Manager 2007 ,initialy, is very similar to 2006. However, when you explore the game further you find many differences. The first thing being is that you can sell players in the first season of their contracts. Though this is very useful for a quick bit of cash, it does make for some very unusual and interesting transfers! I advise that if you are starting a fantasy team, that you buy Joseph Enkahire (European B region) and Chris Kirkland of Liverpool. (In my third season, I sold Enkahire for 25 million after purchasing him in season 1 for just 4 million!)
However this game does come with quite a few problems.
The first being that I beat Liverpool 2-1, at the same time without my knowledge, I beat Real Madrid 12-11! Nothing about the Madrid game came up on my player records. The second being that despite having 4 copies of the game, 3 different memory cards and 2 PS2's, I still find that at Wembley the game crashes before the match even kicks off. This fault is not limited to Wembley, as it has happened to me in the last few days after facing Man Utd in a league game.
Overall, its fun if it does'nt crash!
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