Championship Manager: Season 03-04 (PC)

Recently filmmakers made a romantic comedy about “How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days”. If the reverse film were to be made this game would almost certainly take centre stage. Such is the addictiveness of this game that it is actually marketed by its manufacturers as something that will destroy your relationship. They are not far wrong. This is undoubtedly the most addictive game I have ever played ** Game History ** Championship Manager began life as the work of two football fans from Shropshire, Oliver and Paul Collyer, who developed the original game at home. Released in 1992 on the Amiga and ... more

Here goes for my first game review! If you like football, and own a PC, you are bound to have heard of (or played) a game from the fantastic Championship Manager series. It is by far the best footie management series ever made (Premier Manager?! PAH!), and manages to keep many blokes off the streets and sitting going square eyed instead! HISTORY The series started back in 1992 when two Shropshire football fans (Paul & Oliver Collyer) decided to write their own game. They were fed up with all the other (rubbish!) games out there and decided to make a game for true football fans. They took their ... more

Unless you have been living in a mud hut on the planet Zog for the past dozen years you must have heard of the Championship Manager franchise as it is one of the best selling games in gaming history. The History If you are just emerging from your hut here is a brief outline of the game. Championship manager (CM) is a series of football management Sims founded in 1994 by two brothers named Collyer under the guise of Sports Interactive (SI) and is published by Eidos. SI now boasts a large staff and 25000 researchers across the globe who are busy watching and gathering information on clubs and ... more

Those of you who read my reviews may well have noticed that I haven't written one for a while. Whilst this is in part due to a number of assignment deadlines which I have had to contend with, it is no coincedence that it coincided with the release date of Championship Manager 03/04. To say that I am addicted to the latest incarnation in the highly successful series, would be an understatement. In fact, as soon as I finish this review, I shall go back to attempting to keep my beloved Leicester City in the premiership! The basic premise of the game is a simple one. You take control of a football ... more

Any football fan will LOVE Championship Manager (CM) - thats a law in my book. As a person who has owned the majority of all CM games in the series, you think to yourself, it cannot get any better, it is miles ahead of its rivals. And then, WHAM out comes another version which is even better!!! First off I will write the requirements of the game: MINIMUM: IBM PC or 100% compatible Windows 98 PII 600 96Mb for one league 128Mb RAM Direct X 8.1 300Mb disk space Mouse/keyboard 1024x768 32bit color display Football brain AIM: If you are reading this I am sure you have already played the game before ... more