...
I was given The FA Premier League Football Manager 2000 as a Christmas present this year by one of my step-teenagers. Although dated it is still available and I couldn't wait to play it.
Installation of the game is simple just pop the CD into your CD drive and the Auto-run menu ... Read review
This review already contains more than 120 words. As a Ciao member you could earn up to £5 with this review.
football club in several divisions of the most powerful leagues throughout Europe.Although most of us will head straight for the English league, you do have the choice to transfer your managerial skills to the European stage in Spain's all-conquering Primera Division, France's LNF or the German Bundesliga.As manager, you have control of all major decisions within the football club. You can decide to buy and sell players, upgrade your stadium with a mind-boggling array of different grandstands to improve capacity, or even build new and improved training facilities or commercial outlets to increase your revenue.A new Data Editor keeps the game up to date with the latest developments. Throughout the season, your decisions can crucially affect the performance of your team, both financially and on the playing field. This performance directly affects your job security.An interesting new feature, which liftsFA Premier League Manager 2001head and shoulders above earlier incarnations in the series is the "set goal" option. At the start of the game, the chairman of the club will contact you providing you with three options for to choose between as a goal for yourself and the club over the next three years. This opportunity for longer term development of your club is one that I'm sure many a modern professional football manager would love to share!You can reshape your team, test out new formations and see how your team responds by watching the in-game 3-D engine--where you can watch the full match, complete with some nice graphics, commentary and a variety of realistic crowd noises including unique "chants" synonymous with some of the more famous teams. This allows you to pick out individual star players, and highlights the loafers who aren't pulling their weight. If your players aren't performing... well it's your fault, you sort them out!--faisal ahmed
A review by Wayne10ch on FA Premier League Manager (PC) January 3rd, 2002
Author's product rating:
Gameplay/Playability
Graphics
Sound
Value for Money
Longevity
Advantages:
No matter how many times you play it, you will always find something new
Disadvantages:
No ability to edit players . It is sometimes nice to make up your own teams and this isn't possibel on this game . Bugs in the 3D Match Engine makes watching boring and predictable .
Recommend to potential buyers:
no
Full review
I love football management sims. I have liked them ever since I bought Championship Manager 97 to play with my son, Daniel.
I was given The FA Premier League Football Manager 2000 as a Christmas present this year by one of my step-teenagers. Although dated it is still available and I couldn't wait to play it.
Installation of the game is simple just pop the CD into your CD drive and the Auto-run menu will appear. If it doesn’t go to your start button on the task bar then click Run. A dialogue box will appear and type in d:\autorun and hit the return (if d is not the correct letter for your CD drive replace it with the correct letter). Now all you do is follow the instructions until you have the game loaded.
Now the fun begins! You do not have to play in the Premier Division. You can in fact play any of the divisions including the Conference, which I enjoy starting in. Once you have selected your team you will be left with the in-game menu. I would suggest you spend a lot of time getting used to the MANY different areas by having a click around. You will be surprised at just how much you have to do in the different areas there are. You will be responsible for buying and selling players, the youth team, the reserves, improvements to the grounds, ticket prices, tactics, training, hiring and firing of staff and much, much more. All of these seem to be in different hard to find areas meaning you could be ignoring something that will get you the sack later! I am still discovering things I have missed which impresses me but also can annoy when I think back on it.
The 3D Match Engine is quite impressive to watch when you first get the game, although all of the players have to suffer with there only being three faces available between them. Even so after a little while you begin to notice that there are some bugs in the game. For some reason even when a player is right in front of an open goal he may well pass the ball back rather than score. I should imagine this is due to some random number generator that decides what happens in the game.
I have also noticed an amusing little glitch whereby if a player is tackled from behind he will be booked rather than the offending player. I always knew referee’s were blind! In the end watching games becomes very aggravating and I would suggest you go to the options area and Select NONE which will mean the viewing of the game is stopped and all you see is the final score. For all of the good watching the game will do you this is the best option which is a shame because you no longer require the 3D!
You might well think you have no further problems but you still have to find players to improve your team. Spend to much and you will be sacked. Pay too much on wages and you will be sacked. The search engine is sad and doesn’t really help at all! Try finding one player with a passing ability of 18 and dribbling of 17 to see what I mean. You end up with an empty page. When it does provide you with players you still have to click on each one to ascertain which is best which is time consuming! I have played for hours and still only been two months into the game! Very time consuming for little to show for it. Ensure you do check out the stats though as it can be important!
In the end you are left with a game that is VERY complicated and hard to find your way around. The game is slow to play with some obvious bugs and others that are less obvious but still as annoying. It looks good and the 3D Match Engine might seem impressive but in the end the game fails to live up to Championship Manager.
Although disappointed with aspects of the game, I am still enjoying it! I guess I am just addicted to football manager sims! Or perhaps the game overcomes the errors? Either way the game although very hard to master might well give some people hours of pleasure.
I have found a few cheats that might help you though and note these below;
Add the following command line parameters to the shortcut starting the game (i.e.: "C:\Program Files\EA SPORTS\FA Premier League Football Manager 2000\footballmanager2000d.exe" /fastbuild777 /cash777 /showstat777)
CHEAT CODE RESULT /cash777 More Cash up front /showstat777 Shows the stats for Un-researched players /fastbuild777 As it says builds fast /alwayswin777 Your team always wins (BORING) /nolimit777 No money limits /alwayslose777 Your team always loses (for the masochist out there)
System Requirements · Windows 95 or Windows 98 (Windows NT is not supported) · Intel Pentium 166Mhz MMX processor or compatible · 32 MB RAM · 4x CD-ROM drive (600k/ second transfer rate0 using 32-bit Windows 95/98 CD-ROM driver · High Colour · 150 MB free hard disk space plus space for saved games · DirectX 6.1 Installation · Sound card · Mouse, keyboard
Advantages: Loads of details, very in-depth Disadvantages: Can be slow, and sometimes crashes
...to say, you're very wrong. FA Premier League Manager 2002 (FAPLM), by Electronic Arts, is fast becoming one of the most popular management sims around. There is no doubt that this is all down to the immense detail, accuracy, and wealth of features within the game.
So, what does this FAPLM have over Championship Manager, the undisputed king of management sims? First of all, the match engine. Championship Manager shows you the entire match in text ... ...and of course our own FA Premier League. This game is one of the greats, and definitely deserves my catchphrase - fantastic! I'd strongly recommend for any football fans to buy this game - it's available on Amazon.co.uk quite cheaply, and more information can be found by searching for the game title, or visiting the Electronic Arts website, www.uk.ea.com. ...
Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average very helpful
Football manager 2002 is now out of date since last week when the new ea sports management game came out. If you love Ea Sports you will know that I am talking about TOTAL CLUB MANAGER. Back to this game though!!!!
Released little over a year ago Football manager 2002 is another chapter in the football management games brought to you by EA sports.
I have owned all of the Ea Football management games since 1996 and they have gotten better each year ... ...more powerful graphics and game play have been vastly improved.
The 2002 version is better than last year’s version as I have just mentioned above. I got this game last year and if you want the exact time of year it was 15th of September 2001 at 12.50 and it was purchased for £19.99 from Woolworth’s and I payed with a £20 note(sorry I am getting obsessed) With an updated database, league tables and player statistics from the previous season. It ...
Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average very helpful
Advantages: Very Addictive, Cheap to Buy Disadvantages: Sometimes Crashes
The last football management I played (at the original time of writing this) was the original Championship Manager way back in 93. I saw this game in PC World for a tenner and thought I'd give it a go.
It's a very good game for its time. Very addictive, very playable and easy to pick up and start playing. You can also play multiplayer which is a bonus. For those of you that have never played a football management sim before, heres the idea behind ... ...and you are responsible for managing the players, picking the team + backroom staff, choosing tactics, plus overseeing finances and the development of the stadium. When you start this game you are given a choice of what club you want to manage. You get a choice of all four English division s plus the Conference, and most of the major European leagues.
After you have decided which team you want to take control of you are given a choice of 3 goals ...
Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average very helpful
Advantages: Realistic, Challenging, Addictive Disadvantages: Graphics a bit down on what we would expect from EA Sports
...Well, heres your chance, the Fa Premier League Manager allows you to take the reigns of your favourite club and steer it to Championship glory, and the fame which comes with it, the most realistic mangerial game going around and it really gives you a small insight in what real life coaches have to go through in the real thing.
Nothing totally elaborate but yet an informative and easy to navigate opening screen where you can start a new game, it ... ...in round 3 of the FA Cup, he then gets transferred to Liverpool, he becomes "Cup Tied", because he has already played for Arsenal in the Fa Cup of that year, he cannot play for Liverpool in any Fa Cup match for the rest of that season. CON means that a players contract is about to expire, but until it actually expires, he is still available to play. A green box with BOS is the Bosman ruling, this is where a player has 6 months or less remaining on ...
Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average very helpful
Gameplay/Playability
Graphics
Sound
Value for Money
Longevity
very helpful
26.06.2002
Quick review of FA Premier League Manager (PC) Review ofFA Premier League Manager (PC)by
Quang
test i like this game, so long i don't knmow download that because i can;t play game, i always remember that. Today i have a lucky
Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful
Advantages: 3D matches! Disadvantages: few teams available to play with.
...The F.APremierLeagueManager 2002 is a very good football management game for the PC. The game gives you the option of managing top teams or bottom teams from countries such as England, Scotland, France or Spain BUT only from a few countries! During gameplay you must pick a season objective and complete it with a certain amount of money left. In the game there are many different things to do like improve thje stadium through expansion and maintenance.
You can also hire support staff to help with your tasks or sell and buy players from almost every club in the world. When it comes to matches you can watch and give commands with the 3D match or watch highlights or just go straight to the result at the final whistle.
The game is up there with the best of management sim but is beaten by the championship manager series as it is...
Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful
Advantages: reasonably up to date. Disadvantages: Can only play as a certain few teams.
...This is one of the most recent manager simulation games. But with football things seem to change daily! In this game you shoose to manage any English, Scottish, and most outher eauropean countries league teams like Bayen Leverkusen or Rangers. The game allows you to adjust the balance of your team the capacity and the strip. In the game you can play single player which means you play with one team or you can play a multi-player game whic means you can play with two or more teams from the same country. The game allows you to transfer list players in your team loan out players and give players a free transfer as well as other teams doing that to their players. At the start of a season you pick a goal for that season and must complete that goal. The game also allows you to watch your team play and tell them what to do. I think the game is...
Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful
Advantages: Multiple leagues, indepth stats, unofficial data updates Disadvantages: Need good computer
...This is the greatest football management game. I've played most of the competition (EA Sports FAPremierLeagueManager, Football World Manager 2000, PremierManager 99, Football Masters) and none compare to this. Ok you need a good computer to get multiple leagues running but it is by far the most enthralling game around. I can't wait for the next version to come out which will include media coverage as well. Also it has the biggest fan base, meaning that you can get data updates easily of the web. There are plenty of stats and not just one overall skill level which makes other games too easy....
Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful
This product has not yet been reviewed. 
11.03.2003
11.06.2002
30.09.2000
