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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 .
You mean I have been missing????? Been playing Asheron's Call, Dark Majesty! Talk about addictive!...
You mean I have been missing????? Been playing Asheron's Call, Dark Majesty! Talk about addictive! If you decide to play use the World 'Morningthaw and look for Wayndor! (me)
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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
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FA Premier League Manager 2001allows you to step into the managerial position of any ... more
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 whoaren't pulling their weight. If your players aren't performing... well it's your fault, you sort them out!--faisal ahmed
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