Advantages: More challenging, more leagues, more control, extra realism and accuracy Disadvantages: Highly Addictive, initial bugs in the game
...have played every version of Championship Manager there ever was. Every game was a stepping-stone for the next and CM4 was no exception. I purchased the game from Virgin Megastores for £19.99 in September 2003. Championship Manager 4 (CM4) had a lot of advertising “hype” around its 2003 release. Makers of the game promised an early release, but then failed to meet the deadline. Thus, the game was released in a hurry, with a lot of bugs/errors.
CM4 ... ...Support: -
The makers of Championship Manager (EEDIOS/SIGames) offer excellent technical support through their websites and other links.
Bug fixes: -
As I mentioned earlier, this game does come with a lot of bugs/errors. The good news is that you can download files from the internet to fix all of these errors – what’s more – you can even upgrade the version of CM4 including new player transfers.
I have downloaded many files to upgrade my game ...
hotrodkzn 04.02.2004
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Advantages: Addictive. Very addictive. Is that an advantage? Disadvantages: slower than previous title.
...read many games reviews on Championship Manager and all have rated the game highly. It deserves all the praise it has received. ~THE GAME~
Eidos describes the game as ‘The Most Important Game Of Your Life’. Well, yes that’s true but I believe the phrase ‘The most addictive game of your life’ would be a more accurate connection to the game. Do I really need to describe the objectives of the game? Every football fan knows what the game is all about, ... ...to the next section).
Championship Manager 4 is a very realistic football management game. You manage a team of your choice, for many that will be the team you support (That’s Chelsea for me). You have a choice of teams from 39 national leagues. Once you’ve chosen your team you are presented with your squad at which point you should examine thoroughly and decide if you need to make any transfers. Available transfer funds can be limited for some ...
ScottyG 12.08.2003
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Advantages: Next installment of the best football management game ever. Disadvantages: just some minor improvements.
...the first few instalments of championship manager you will already know how good a game it actually is. As far as in-depth management games go you cannot get better than championship manager for realism and enjoyment.
I have spent months of my life on this game playing with myself or with my friends and since buying the original have bought every update and am still enjoying it.
The games engine is based around statistic and number crunching with ... ...into the game. For Championship manager old boys to navigate around “Championship manager 4” is only slightly different in the way it is set out, but in fact it will take you seconds to know where to look for everything. For the newcomers you will think oh my god what do I do now. I would strongly advise to spend over an hour just looking at the different menus and playing with it to navigate your way around. You have complete control and once you ...
bebcho 26.10.2003
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Advantages: Simply the best Disadvantages: can run slowly on some computers
...life back. You bring find even the most pathetic points of success taste all the sweeter. One week before mt dissertation was due in at University I won the First Divison Championship with Luton, the fans were chanting my name. It was one of the happiest days of my life. ...
pdoyle007 03.09.2003
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Advantages: More of everything that CM01/02 had plus a 2D match engine Disadvantages: Slower and needs patches from SIGames.com website
...basics out of the way, Championship Manager 4 is available for around £25 and it runs on (as a minimum): P3 - 600 or equivalent
Windows 98/XP
64MB (128 with XP)
However the recommendation is for P4 - 1Ghz or equivalent and 256 MB RAM.
I'm running the game on a P3 1.3Ghz, Windows 98, 128 MB RAM. If I'd written this review shortly after I installed CM4 (not long after release) then the review would contain nothing but compliments. Compared to CM01/02 ... ...then don't buy this. Championship Manager 4 is hard! The transfer market is incredibly realistic which means little money available for most clubs and very strict wage structures. Added to that is more realism from computer-controlled clubs. No more selling their players to you for stupidly low prices. You may see a player you want, his stats are amazing, you want him. His value is a very reasonable £1.5m. But when you enquire about him the club ...
smnhicks 06.08.2003
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Advantages: Return of the greatest computer game ever! Disadvantages: It's slowed down and lost a touch of the fizz
A Review of Championship Manager 4
Made by: Eidos
Price: £30-£35
www.championshipmanager.co.uk
Seeing as how it is some two months since Championship Manager 4 was released I thought I would take stock of the situation and pen a review. For those that don’t know what Championship Manager (ChampMan as I will doubtless lazily start referring to it during this piece) is, I shall endeavour to explain. Basically it is a state-of-the-art, football ... ...The all-singing, all-dancing, ChampMan4.
Championship Manager first entered my consciousness back in about 1992. For many years my knackered old 386 IBM (which was state of the art then) used to crawl along playing the most brilliantly simplistic, yet thorough football game I’d ever played. At the time no one I knew of played the game…in fact no one had even heard of it. It was like being a Mormon; you think you are on to a brilliant thing but no ...
andystrong 07.05.2003
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Advantages: It's Champ Manager, up to date stats, comprehensive, addictive, new 2D highlights. Disadvantages: Very buggy, can be slow, won't run windowed.
...Like any of the Championship Manager Series, CM4 takes a while to get into, and the change from the CM3 engine takes a while to get used to, but as I havent't been playing it long I'll probably edit this opinion a bit later - a lot depends on whether I can maintain my early season form and secure promotion from Div 3 for the Jack Army! Overall, I'd say that the new 2D match system and transfer engine are an improvement, but the game seems slow on ... ...but only in terms of Championship Manager games. If you don't own one (if not why?), then it's probably worth buying (download the updates as soon as you install it though), but if you have CM 01-02 though, I recommend getting the 02-03 update off the net and waiting until the bugs in CM4 are fixed, or the 03-04 version is released (if this is going to happen) - I've always found the sequel versions of a CM engine to be the definitive ones - CM 97-98 ...
Decoy 05.05.2003 (20.05.2003)
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Advantages: Buy buy buy buy buy buy buy. Disadvantages: you will never leave your computer again.
...scotland and try for the championship with rangers, or shall we go for spanish league title with the the immense team talanted team of Real Madrid, shall we try for the english title with my team Lincoln, LOL, yes can see that happening, or are we off to take the french title with marsielle, you choose. because thats what you have to do, you can choose to play as many leagues that are included as you like.
but be warned, the more you choose, the ... ...for instance, i won the championship in italy with milan, i won the italian cup as well, but lost the final of the champions league to real madrid, to what was a obvious offside last minute goal, and the fans wanted me to die, they wanted me out, they could not believe they lost that, i had brought them the title for the first time since 1994 and they dont care, that is what this is about, it is about winning, and winning big, and if you lose to ...
mentalmickey100 29.04.2003
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Advantages: Another excellent CM game - it's 2D view greatly improves the game and sets it apart from its competitors Disadvantages: Needs a very high spec PC to run quickly
The Championship Manager franchise goes from strength to strength with its latest installment, Championship Manager 4. It was always going to be a gamble making major changes such as introducing the 2D-view, but the gamble has paid off. It would have helped if the producers could have properly finished the game before release rather than rushing it, but now (at the time of writing 3) enhancement packs have been released and can be downloaded (from ... ...which can be bought separately and helps to introduce some of the games subtleties. After a period when new CM versions seemed to just be data updates, Championship Manager 4 is a much better game than previous versions and reinforces Championship Manager's status as the best football management game around. ...
alexbr 27.05.2003
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Advantages: Addictive, Realistic, how long have you got Disadvantages: Needs so much from the poor computer and can suffer slowdown.
...my favourite games in the Championship Manager series. These games have been around now for way over a decade and after the humble beginnings on the BBC computer, Amiga and other such models, the latest Championship Manager 4 has just hit the shelves, and I am lucky enough to have got a copy so here goes my review.
Championship Manager 4 as with all of the previous games, relies heavily on the accuracy of the statistics rather more than any other ... ...I was playing the old Championship Manager 3 which is at least 5 years out of date.
One huge problem for alot of people with this game will be the system requirements. It requires about 600MB hard drive space, which isn't too bad. It also requires a 600MHz process with at least a 1GHz recommended. In addition it recommends 256MB RAM and decent sound/graphics capabilities. This is a really high spec and will rule out some people already.
The game ...
pumfster 21.04.2003
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Advantages: Attention to detail, realism, quality Disadvantages: can "slow down" at times
The Championship Manager Saga goes back a long way. A long, long way. To those who are unfamiliar let me begin way back on the Amiga, where many a long hour was spent playing the original from Domark (now published by Eidos). With the collier brothers at the helm a truly absorbing, if not basic management game was evolved. Based more on the realism of the statistics than pretty pictures they had created a game which became the most realistic management ... ...4th incarnation, the premise that Championship Manager (CM) is synonymous with the best management simulation in the business is still as accurate as it ever has been. In fact it has never been more true than with its latest release – Championship Manager 4. (CM4 from here on in)
As many a CM anorak can tell you this particular episode in the popular management franchise was due for release a little over 5 months ago. It has been an agonising wait, ...
Groover 31.03.2003
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I am going to write about my favourite pc game chapionship manager 01/02 (4).
***Transfers***
The most reallistic transfer system ever used on a game.It has transfer deadlines,free transfers and contract expires dates to get the best players for free.Also has a scouting system to scout new talent from France to Brazil or from Africa to Asia.
***Tactics***
You can make up your own unique master tactics to win leagues and cups.decide whether to ... ...what players make the runs and which players take the long shots.Or if you want a less complicated
approach to the game just use tactics which the computer gives you.
***Teams***
Choose to manage a team from 16 countries which range from france and argentina to enigland and scotland.some countries offer you to have the chance to manage lower league teams e.g conference league in england.
***staff***
Picking coaches to hire is an important part ...
rossmfc 19.03.2003
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Advantages: Highly addictive - you won't be bored for a while. Disadvantages: Highly addictive - my family have left me, my friends have stopped calling.
The full version of Championship Manager 4 is not on general release until 28th March 2003. This review is based on the beta demo version, currently on sale with the March 2003 edition of CM4 Magazine. I will update the review as appropriate, when the full version is out. (In the beta demo version, the game only lasts for six months).
For anyone not familiar with Championship Manager, it is a football manangement game. It includes, in many peoples ... ...a long-term fan of the Championship Manager series, virtually everything I know and love is still there, only bigger and better.
The only exception is the editor. Some previous versions have included an editor, allowing you to create new players or edit existing players. This was something I liked, as I enjoyed adding myself to my favourite team, Liverpool (although I might have slightly exaggerated my ability when entering my stats - after all, ...
Pipster01 13.03.2003
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Advantages: This is my coming back opinion so i think everything is great. Disadvantages: as i said everything is great...
...on the new pc game championship manager 4.I hope you enjoy the review.
The game I have is for the pc and it needs the following system requirements:
MINIMUM(to play 1 league with small database)
Intel p3 600mhz or equivalent
Windows 98/xp
64mb ram(128 for xp)
Graphics 1024x768,32bit,colour required
Audio directx compatible soundcard.
RECONMMENDED
Intel p4 1ghz or equivalent-cm4 is optimised for p4
256mb ram
These requirements are quite ... ...personally have a p3 (laptop) and it works but is a bit slow. One of my Family members has a computer windows 98 and it is extremely slow,if it is very slow I recommend when it comes to matches that you don’t use the new 2d match option as it will really take 90minuetes.
The new features on this game are as follows:
39 national leagues, and more than 200,000 players and staff.
Transfers,tactics,training,coaches,scoutes and the crucial match.
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Dan10ch 13.04.2003 (15.04.2003)
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Advantages: You probably won't ever get bored of it. Disadvantages: Destroys social life, destroys sleep patterns, destroys any chance of good exam results.
...universe has arrived. Welcome to Championship Manager 4.
!!!ADVANCE WARNING!!!
This game NEEDS A FAST COMPUTER to prevent the loading times getting very annoying. I first played the game on a 500MHz processor which it struggled to run. The specifications can be found at the end of this review.
!!!ADVANCE WARNING OVER!!!
Now, back to the review. This review is going to be very long, there is a lot to tell about this game. First i will talk about ... ...absolutely dwarfs the database on Championship Manager 01/02 which only had around 100,000 players and staff. You would do worse than to change the database setting on your game to small to increase the speed of the gameplay.
You are able to take control of a club in any one of 39 nations in CM4, ranging from the Premiership in England to the National Football League in India. You can take control of some very diverse club sides, this can provide ...
adz_2k2 01.05.2003
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Championship Manager 4is the latest in the long line of football sims to come out of the ... more
Eidos/Sports Interactive Games doors, and followers of the ever popular series will not be disappointed. With over 200,000 players and staff across 39 national lea...
Postage & Packaging: £1.94 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days...
Championship Manager 4 PC is the next generation of football management games, offering ... more
more players, leagues and competitions than any other title. For the first time ever in the series, Championship Manager 4 PC features a real-time 2D match engine e...
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