Championship Manager 2007 (PC)

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This is where Championship Manager 2007 brings out the big guns; with the Match Analysis Tool. It's much like watching Richard Keys analyze each teams post match stats, commenting on their shots, passes, and general areas of play.
But the CM2007 version is far more flexible - and powerful. So it allows you to see what your teams got up to, but also allows micro-analysis of each player's performance.
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...terms of gameplay AND realise, Championship Manager is now pushing the boundaries.
According to SI themselves, FM 2007 is indeed "Evolutionary not Revolutionary". You'd wonder why they'd do this, when the previously maligned Championship Manager team are will and eager to try new things and take a chance?
It's no doubt a worry for SI when it takes them a year to come up with less appealing features than CM2007 has managed ... more

Here we go First things first. The match engine, plays a decent game of football. You'll see long range goals, scuffed shots perplexing keeper and defence to bobble in off the post, crisp one twos and vicious finishes; or that shot spiralling off the strikers boot and ending up in Row Z.
If only you could really analyze that forwards performance; despite that hi-profile miss, does the rest of his game justify future selection?

The Tool also includes a Goals option. It does exactly what it says on the tin - you can see exactly how goals were scored (and where, and when). Was it headed in direct from a corner? Was there an intricate passing build up? Or did your midfielder pick up the ball from his own half, run unchallenged through the midfield, and then unleashed a thunderbolt from 30 yards?
You can quickly and easily see all this (and more) - and importantly see it for your opponents too. Identifying where you've gone wrong is just as important at looking at what you've done right, and the Match Analysis tool let's you do just that.

While games like Football Manager seem to sit on their laurels and only add incremental features that entirely fail to really bring anything new to the table in terms of gameplay AND realise, Championship Manager is now pushing the boundaries.
According to SI themselves, FM 2007 is indeed "Evolutionary not Revolutionary". You'd wonder why they'd do this, when the previously maligned Championship Manager team are will and eager to try new things and take a chance?
It's no doubt a worry for SI when it takes them a year to come up with less appealing features than CM2007 has managed in just a few short months.

CM2007 also lets you get into the minds of your players more. Is one of your players unhappy? Talk to him DIRECTLY about the issue. A face to face chat. This is REAL man-management...not some media-based excuse for player interaction!
That's right - Championship Manager 2007 has realism right there. The ability to talk with your players and put their minds at rest...or if you so choose upset them, alienate them, drive them from the club. You are the manager, they'd best do what you say!
While other games are happy NOT to let you talk to players face to face, Beautiful Game Studios has breached something that has long been called for and long been needed; and in the 2007 version it's been tweaked and honed and toned to perfection.

A final note must go to the much improved transfer system. Things have really opened up here. The restrictive board interference has toned down - no longer will they quibble over a few quid here and there for a transfer fee, or an extra £200 a week wages. Go over the top though, and they'll still raise an eyebrow - no paying £5million for a conference player I'm afraid!

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