Football Director (Nintendo DS)

This review is for the Nintendo DS game, Football Director, published by Pinnacle. The game is a football management simulator, one of the few available for the DS. There have been many football management games available, but they usually work best on the PC, and haven’t usually translated as well onto other consoles. The formula in this game is the same as with most others, manage your team to victory by buying and selling players, clever use of tactics, choice of backroom staff and by using many other managerial techniques. You play each game, as you would imagine, by selecting your team ... more

At last! A football management game for the DS! They are available, pretty much, on every games system, and given how basic they are to navigate around, why hasn't one been available for the DS before? I had been waiting for a football management game for the DS for a long time and, just after Christmas, I saw Football Director on the shelves of HMV for the price of £22 and thought "That's definitely worth it!". Having happily purchased, I had high expectations considering I had been waiting so long for Nintendo to release such a game. The title of 'Director' was already distinct from the ... more

When it comes to football management on the move, your choices are pretty limited. Football Director DS was never going to be very graphical. Matches play out in text-only format, with highlights popping up in teletype style as and when they occur. Occasionally, a goal indicator message will appear across the top of the scoreboard, but this doesn't really cause any issues. There is one thing that does though, and that's the lack of any in-game feedback about the performance of your players. You can skip in and make a substitution or change tactics at any time during play, but there's little ... more