Well, something like this kann`s a fare before the new football manager 08.
About a year ago I already expressed myself about the predecessor and was pessimistic whether Electronic Arts receives the known problems and difficulties in the handle.
First of all: The Manager 08 comes time without actually already traditional coarse bugs (but for many small) on your hard drive to a new outfit has been donated, a new training mode and of course adapted the player squads of all teams in the current season.
Nevertheless, the question must be asked what the team led by the former offense guru Gerald Köhler because so does the whole year. From grand announced improvements is nothing to be seen far and wide, the centerpiece of the series, the 3-D mode, which I would like to also mainly refer in this review, still badly in need of improvement. Despite countless players features only a hand full of really seem to affect the game on the lawn. Of course you can as usual set-up and running paths, and set the tactics on the known slider, which is then adhered coarse. But a not uncommon chance existing ratio of 12:12 the face-off on the striker and his shot happiness is ultimately decisive, the chosen tactic usually does not matter. Holds it seems as if the AI briefly gets bonuses on passing, tackles, and trapping. The behavior during the execution of objections is still to be described as catastrophic. The much-vaunted handwriting of the coach are nowhere, both after victories, and defeats by one wonders what it might have actually located.
Many players report that they have without any team training (!!) achieved better placings than continuous training work. While the comments in the game create atmosphere, but often do not fit into the game. The financial performance of the computer-controlled teams is often not understandable, as well as the occasional announcements of their own players, z.Bsp. their agreement to extend only if a good striker is brought, although one has a very successful storm etc, etc, etc.
The FM 08 acts like a big movement, but at the resort only a few wheels with each other and so do all the action implausible. From industry giants EA you could expect, as only an annual update of the club teams more. But so many years one enters either playing technique on the spot, or the game extended to (in my eyes) bells and whistles such as stock trading or the love life of their own coaches person.
Rounding out the game through the new items, thin Handbüchlein which either
existing knowledge of previous versions presupposes or extensive Internet research requires. And if at any Quicksave each time new files need to be created, which can add up to several hundred megabytes, should also be scrutinized for completion.
The FM 08 may well be fun and entertaining, if one does not have high demands for depth and complexity, because it is not despite perhaps contrary opinions, certainly.
So I can actually, like last year, only to discount previous version rates together addon. or to wait for the FIFA Manager 2025, which, and I know of truly reliable source, will be just great.