I grew up with soccer manager games, although I do not have all participated by far, so I think I can certainly judge the game in the context of the historical development of the genre. The current FM makes a lot of fun, time goes by very quickly and even after several days' net Playtime "you always discover switches and levers that you have not found so right away. One thing is certain: The game will not get bored!
Well, I think:
- The chic design,
- The possibility of being able to configure its main menu personally,
- Many small features that waiting to be discovered,
- The numerous details of Spielerfähgkeiten,
- The "perceived degree of reality", particularly in terms of club finances,
- The ability to delegate tasks unloved to its employees (to the game can be so adapted to the personal preferences)
- The coaching career, the redundancies and changing clubs enables
- The new scouting system is very realistic.
However, despite all the praise, there are also some criticisms:
- The new feature of the player talks, although initially nice, but you will often be asked by the game to be more to talk to the players, often we know not what to say to them or why their confidence in the manager is so low,
- The 3D mode, which looks still somehow unrealistic, even if it looks compared for example a lot better with the FM04, the often same audio comments nerves over time, he prefers the text mode,
- The badly or unimplemented ALT-TAB under Windows XP (it is not possible to change under XP via ALT-TAB to the desktop, go under Win Vista on the other hand ...)
- The lack of network mode, but we dream of them all since so kick. 3
Conclusion: Very successful game that lets you have wonderfully fun and spend time. Due to some criticism points but only 4 out of 5 stars - Ready for the UEFA Cup, the Champions League hats (this year), however, is not enough!
