Advantages: Great game, lots of detail, quicky than other CM's to play Disadvantages: lack of natural sunlight and real graphics
...people who do not know, Championship Manager is a football management simulation. I'll try to tell you what the game is like in my review.
---What is CM2?---
Championship manager is a management simulation of many different football teams, leagues and players, including the Spanish, French, Dutch and English and Scottish leagues. You can also manage international teams but you must prove that you are worthy first. You must control aspects such ... ...selection, watching the match and organising friendlies. CM2 has been around now for about 5-6 years so it is quite old so you will see Gascoigne playing for Rangers and England, and Owen as just a young player for the under 21 England side. ---Graphics---
The graphics on this game are good. That is because there aren't many. You don't see the match; you see an animated commentary, which is useful. All aspects are basic but presented well in an ...
jonty68 19.05.2003
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Advantages: its better than life Disadvantages: no one else things its better than life
...each team I managed.
Championship manager 2 prevented me from doing any work in my first year at A-levels. Whilst revising for modules in March, all I can remember doing is picking up my books and reading them while my old computer loaded the other ‘weekend’ results. I did quite well but that was only due to a couple of important goals from Thierry Henry.
Championship 3 forced me to get a decent computer and although it was still quite ... ...for about 3 years and although I have changed greatly during this time I feel my love of Championship Manager will last forever.
i'm soory if this article is not as good as my others as i am off on holiday tommorow and have been writing this afternoon ...
bainsd 24.08.2001
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Advantages: Keeps you busy Disadvantages: Keeps you too busy
Addiction is the keyword when it comes to this game. Not only is it about a sport driven by passion, it gives you that extra buzz of being in control. Buying the players you love, selling the ones you least like, getting the coaches that match your mentality, basically everything a real manager has to do. This version is an improvement to the previous ones but not really a vast improvement. I personally think that the major improvements between versions ... ...you get more profiles and histories for over 100,000 players and staff within twenty-six leagues. Implementation of the new EU transfer system. Attribute Masking mode - is introduced. Making notes on players. Interacting with your board by issuing them ultimatums. You can appeal against bans and receive fines from the FA. Data Editor is improved. More press headlines. Basically, adding more spice to the game. But, I managed to get over my addiction ...
Biasman 18.08.2002
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What a game!, Championship Manager 2 must be the best football management game ever made. This game was so addictive, that during the period when I first got this game, if I was on the computer then it was only to do one thing...play CM2. I am sure that I must have broken the world record for the most hours spent on a game. The game itself is a turned-based game, where the days go by and the games also fly by. This is in contrast to CM3, where it ... ...to arrive. As manager of your favourite football club, you are incharge of all tactics, signings, squad selections etc. When matchday actually arrives, you make team selection from the squad setup and then proceed to the game itself. Although there are no flashy graphics such as 3d renderd players, you are presented with commentary which appears in a bar. You can speed up the game by pressing the spacebar key, also tactics can be changed at any point ...
khadafi 28.07.2000
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Advantages: World class players to be brought, simple presentation and nice price (£4.99) Disadvantages: Slightly dated due to the release of CM3, transfer options not overly helpful
...I can play the brilliant Championship Manager 2 (which in my opinion is better than the third instalment!!!)
I graduated from the days of playing the original version on my poor old Amiga, until it packed up and went to that computer table in the sky. I used to spend long lonely periods on this game, perfecting my teams and bring on the youngsters and fining Julian Dicks. Those were the days eight pack of beer, 20 embassy and a girlfriend bitching ... ...poor Amiga departed, I discovered Championship Manager 2 (we used to play playstations, for some reason). My lifestyle returned, except this time there was no girlfriend to complain (hooray).
This game is packed with options, and the options are all the important options; buying and selling players, altering tactics and selecting the team. Unlike other football manager games, which seem to want you to be the club accountant, stadium planner, marketing ...
SEXISTPIG 08.02.2001
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Advantages: Fun, entertaining and surprising. Disadvantages: Cant think of any
This game is the most addictive and best management game ever. I have now been playing this game for a few years and still find a few surprises. In games like this people think buy the best players in the world and you would win the league, wrong. There is an element that the players need to addapt to each other, and i am thinking the game takes in account the fact that players do speak different languages.
I dont know, but i have found that keeping ...
MagicMeeks 12.08.2000
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Advantages: Gameplay, I can't ignore it Disadvantages: Ageing, no official editor
...game, one from Eido (the championship manager series) and Gremlin. (the premier manager series) If you like, one you hate the other - generally speaking - but I like both and so can give an opinion which compares the two and also CM2 against other ChampMan games.
Championship Manager 2 may be really old now and many updates have since been released, however CM2 is still the best football management game around. Championship Managers are generally ... ...is one of the fastest championship managers around as there are no resere teams or u-21 teams. The game makes you pick teams, negotiate contracts and inprove your squad using the large easily searchable transfer market.
Extra add-ons include editors (mostly unofficial) make the game quite amusing as you add freinds, family and even fellow ciao members. Games later in the series, starting with 97/98 have ingame editors which are easier to use but ...
christopherj84 21.10.2000 (08.04.2001)
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Advantages: Very Addictive Disadvantages: Outdated Players
This is the best football manager game i have ever played on and the best in the champ manager series. Yes it doesn't have any graphics what so ever but it's not about the graphics because it is a very addictive game that seem's hard to stop. I once spent my whole summer holiday playing on the german league version of this and got to the 2010/2011 season with borussia dortmund.
The origanal game has two league's to choose from the english and the ... ...has quite outdated players on but that doesn't matter because you will be enjoying the game that much it wont occur to you that the players are old. My personal favourite is the german league and the best team's on that are borussia dortmund and bayern munich in the 1.Bundesliga and hertha berlin and wolfburg in the 2.Bundesliga.
Here are a list of great players you can buy on the english league.
Ronaldo(PSV)
R. Baggio (AC Milan)
Solskjaer(Molde)
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Chris_Bridges 09.04.2001
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Advantages: Its a new step up for management simulator games Disadvantages: the graphics are poor, but you don't need them, cos the game is so good without them
This was made when Championship Manager was still pretty much in its early stages, whether you try Championship manager 2, (96/97), or the more prestigous championship manager 2 97/98, you'll agree its a groundbreaking game for football fanatics. You probably have to have a good knowledge of the game to play this well, but, after playing any championship manager game, you'll gain a good knowledge of football. for instance whilst watching the world ... ...Such is the addictiveness of championship manager, you'll be thinking of future transfers whilst being at work at school. Theres's nothing better than being able to discuss your tactics with friends and boast about your achievements.
There is also a very useful update facility on the 97/98 version, which lets you add new signings made by any football league team, that arent on the game already. It also allows you to cheat, but most people who play ...
green182 02.10.2001
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Advantages: Class game- so many options Disadvantages: None
If ever there was a football management game then this was it. it is absolutely brilliant, and has kept me playing for hours. you can just be so many team that it is very difficult to switch it off. i enjoy being Barcelona on this edition cause they have all the best players, and the biggest stadium. It has loads of options on it, and you can have up to 8 players all managing differenct teams. it is your best chance to be a football manager and put ...
mneedham 27.10.2000
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Advantages: just brilliantly fun Disadvantages: none
This is the best and will always be the best champ maanager of all time. nothing can compare to the gameplay of it . Even for a management sim it is basic and fun . To play it you just need common sense and a sense of football. The way the game plays is exceptional and will never be beaten . It doesnt take ages to load and is the best to play out of all them. the later ones are too complicated and too much hassle this is a classic.
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chinnyman 20.09.2000
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Advantages: The best management game around joint with champ one and three Disadvantages: you can't play the matches and loading times a little slow
The first Championship manager was as great game. The problem with this was that there was no great improvements which needed to be made. So if you own the first in the series just expect more of the same with a few little extras and all the players at there later clubs although as there is now a third the player won't all be at there year 2000 clubs. For you who have never played the first you should definately buy this game even if you don't play ... ...and deciding what players to buy and what improvements could be made to your stadium and clubs facilities. Don't expect to take control of your team and play the games though because you can't. You basically watch the comentry which although sounds boring isn't that bad. If you had the first don't bother unless you want all the player at there later clubs. Everyone else who doesn't own champ one buy. Or if you want all the latest transfers at an ...
chrish123 28.07.2000
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Advantages: Addictive; Nostalgic; Ahead of its time. Disadvantages: Not fully compatible with XP or Vista.
...look no further than the Championship Manager series. All of the titles in the series are good but CM 2, in my opinion, is the best of the bunch.
Ok, so the game is 12 years old, but time has been a good servant to CM2, and it remains as playable today as it was upon its release.
Like the more recent games in the Championship Manager series, the player gets the whole immersive experience of being a football manager, from selecting which English ... ...the transfer market to overseeing the club's finances.
However, you would be forgiven for thinking that a game released more than a decade ago would pale in comparison to more modern offerings such as Football Manager 2007, and of course in many ways it does. For instance, there is no 2D match engine or brilliant sound-effects and of course the game isn't quite as detailed. But this, in my opinion, is what adds to the game's charm.
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corkoz 28.07.2007
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Advantages: Low specs, easy, quick to load, easy to get into Disadvantages: not the gaming experience of a lifetime
CM3 is looked upon as the pinnacle of gaming achievement in this genre. However it has become almost too technical, with too much training needed, and behind the scenes stuff, that perhaps less than 40% of the time is actually playing games.
CM2 is despite its age still ultra enjoyable, indeed several friends have joined me in playing CM2 rather than CM3 for the speed of the game. The sound might be poor, the interface looking a bit tired, but hey ...
Morgenhund 26.07.2000
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Advantages: Still a great game to play, many years on Disadvantages: Game is so old that you need an old PC to play it
Desapite this games age (nearly 10 years old, now) it is still special to me. This was my first ever management sim, and it was from playing this that I became a Cambridge United supporter; to say that it is life changing is not and understatement.
I was around 8 years old when I started playing this game, but it is so simple and easy that even a four year old could get to grips with it. It is based around a very simple concept; managing a football ... ...you can pretty much decide how many times your number 17 chews his pieces of carrot, but if you don't want to have to tweak and play with every aspect of your team then this game is a shining example that less is more!
It is so old now that the fact that the database is completely out of date doesn't matter, it's an insight into a completely different era of football - one that I grew up with.
This game can be your best companion, but if if your ...
matt_caspell 09.11.2004
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