Football Manager 2007 (PC)

...consider to be the best football management game that there is available. You may wonder why I refer to Championship Manager here given that Championship Manager games continue to be released alongside Football Manager, however up until and including Championship Manager 03/04, Sports Interactive were the team behind the Championship Manager series, however after a split between Sports Interactive and Eidos whereby Sports Interactive signed a deal ...
...top 6 flights of English football - this being the Premiership, Championship, League One, League Two, Conference, and Conference North/South. This is a great selection I feel as many of the clubs in the Conference North/South are only semi-professional so to include clubs of such low stature is a bold move, and in including these leagues you therefore have the choice of some 160 English clubs alone to manage. If English football is not your thing ...

RazzaLazza 12.11.2006 · Read full review
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Football Manager 2007 - marmite love it or hate it Football manger game overview This game quite simply is like marmite; you either love it or you hate it. I love it and am completely obsessed with it. Days, weeks and months have been spent pushing for promotion, staving of relegation or simply attempting to sign the best 16 year old footballer in then world. However, this happens to coincide with my love of football; playing, watching, listening ...
...to say that if football does nothing for you and never has then this game and its ilk will not be for you. The basis of the game is that you take full control of a football team, control the tactics, transfers, scouting, coaching and attempt to succeed. Matches used to be played out in word format and you could only read what was happening within the match. However, in recent years a 2d pitch has been incorporated to allow people to gain a better ...

brianroper316 27.08.2007 · Read full review
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Football Manager is the definition of a game whose greatness and addictiveness is difficult to describe. Even if you show it to a friend you'll most likely get a dismissive and/or sarcastic response, to the effect of "So you watch *dots* play football? How sophisticated!" But give this friend your Football Manager for a weekend and you just might never get it back. Sports Interactive's award winning series doesn't have you playing as Jose Mourinho, ...
...of the Winter Transfer Window. Football Manager's many followers also offer a plethora of user-created content like league-specific updates and even photos, kits and badges that SI weren't able to license for release. As silly as it might look, the Game Engine also plays its part to the addiction. A bird's eye view of the field, with players being represented as little dots with feet, combines with lines of radio-like commentary to allow for a pretty ...

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Football Manager 2007 Background ----------------- The game was originally called Championship Manager and it was made by two brothers in the early 90's who then went on to create Sports Interactive. Until the 2004/2005 football season Sports Interactive worked with Eidos to create the game. Before the start of the football season the two companies split, Eidos took the Championship Manager brand name and Sports Interactive took the databases ...
...last three years very successfully. Football Manager's main rival is Championship Manager and each year the two games compete for the top spot in the football management genre. For the last three years Football Manager has been the better game and consumers believe it will continue to be the better game as long as Sports Interactive keep making the game. Selection Of Teams --------------------------- This game is absolutely massive and has the ...

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...game in the best selling Football Manager series returned. Football Manager 2007 is the closest thing you will ever get to managing a real football team. Will hundreds of brand new features, this really is a superb game and should be added to any football nut's collection. Many of the regular features once again are included within the game. The most impressive of which is the extensive and huge database which graces the game. It is possible to ...
...easier to navigate around the football world. By far the greatest feature, and many Football Manager fans will agree with me, is the faster loading times. Of course, this is not a problem if you have a good computer but mine is a 256 MB ram. On the previous game it would take ages to process fixtures but that is a thing of a past. It is by no means instant but is much improved. There are so many new features that I would literally be here all week. ...

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...My most recent acquisition is Football Manager 2007. And although I'm not quite as hooked as I was in the early days of adolescence, it's still amazing how quickly a Sunday afternoon can disappear once I've loaded it up. It is, in my opinion, the best manager game of all time. The emphasis on bringing players through the youth system and nurturing them before they are ready for regular first team action is better than on previous versions. You can ...
...never witnessed a real life football transfer go through I couldn't be sure of that. Then there is the pressure of getting your star players to sign long term deals before the bigger clubs come poaching. The in-game menu is better with the 2D screen. In some of the older Championship Manager games there was just text commentary during the game so it was difficult to assess whether your tactics were working. But with the 2D screen this can be clearly ...

AndyWhite87 12.03.2008 · Read full review
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...now want to be a football manager due to my experiences of the game. Now Football Manager following an acrimonious split between Sports Interactive and Eidos, Sports Interactive continues to produce outstanding games under a new name and true followers of the game have realised where their loyalties lie. GAMEPLAY Setting up a game is easy, select your favourite leagues, select the amount of detail you wish the game to be in, put your details in, ...
...Matchdays are what makes a football game what it is. Even though you cannot see the game in great detail and the graphics are poor, it is somewhat enchanting watching the game and becomes addictive very quickly indeed. When your team score a last minute penalty or concede a dodgy offside goal, it still feels surprisingly real and mood swings often occur during playing time. From my own experiences, it is more rewarding, and more difficult, to start ...

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...in their own world of football management. Family, work, and social life are just inconveniences once you step into the hot seat of your chosen club and begin the task of steering it towards seasons of success. Be it the top of the Premier League or the depths of lower league football down under, Football Manager once again lets players take control of a vast array of clubs from across the globe. Football Manager 2007 looks better than its predecessors ...
...this latest addition to the Football Manager series even more exciting is the inclusion of a feeder clubs feature - where large club can forge working links with smaller clubs and send out players on load and arrange friendlies (and vice versa for smaller clubs looking for bigger clubs). Teams can also look to link up with foreign teams, which can increase revenue and help attain work permits for foreign talent. Things are not so stable in the board ...

Rog13 16.01.2007 (12.04.2007) · Read full review
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Football manager 2007 is as you guessed the 2007 version of the long running manager game and with Football manager 2008 due out soon it should be good to see if anything will change much. Now then first of you set up an account with your name details etc. then you have a choice choose a team to manage from the off, and when I say a team I mean any team it seems like there is every possible team that has ever been on this game, you can choose from ...
...unfortunately support some poor low division team you can take up the reigns and try to rise them to glory now this is hard so if you want it a bit easier to start off then pick one of the big names in the English premiership till you get the hang of the game. Alternatively you can start of unemployed and search the job lists in the hope of being offered one. Anyway when you have finally decided on the team you want to manage or have been offered ...

S3Matt 12.09.2007 · Read full review
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...update of the Sega/Sports Interactive football management franchise has arrived with us and first up let me state in no uncertain terms that this is a very good game. The level of detail that we have come to expect is still there. The latest transfer signings are all in there. They have even added a few new features. Player interaction is nice and you can ask senior players to mentor young up and coming stars which can dramatically alter the youngsters ...
...game every year. Also Football Manager 2007 does seem to have lost a little something. I am not sure if I am just reaping all the luck I should have been getting over the last 8 years of playing Sports Interactive football management games but this one just seems to be a little easier. Finding young Brazilian stars and convincing them to join your newly promoted Hull team seems easier. Getting them a work permit seems a bit easier. Coming up with ...

JFT75 18.01.2007 · Read full review
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Football Manager 2007 is still my favourite managerial game on the market. This is mainly due to the fact that 'Football Manager 2008' did not work properly on my PC (most of the menus were missing) and I have not been out to buy 'Football Manager 2009' yet. In this edition of the game, the 'Team Talk' is introduced for the first time. This is a great addition to the game I feel, because it gives you greater influence on the mood of your players ...
...can either be hailed for an inspirational team talk by your players and media or make your players feel concerned for the lack of praise you give them. If you choose to tell the team to' play like this in every match' instead of telling them their 5-0 win was 'sensational' then players become slightly concerned. The layout to this game is the same as the previous games, with player stats being given a rating out of 20 and all the various methods ...

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This is the BEST football managment simulation for PC. This game makes you feel like a real football manager. This game allows you to manage any team in over 50 countries and you can buy any of 290,000 players on the game (depending on database size). Football Manager 2007 has improved due to scouting allowing you to be told about the best players which your club can attract. You can do pre match and full time team talks, along with talking to the ...
...This game is the best football managment simulation on PC to date and is very addictive. You will be on this game for months until 2008 comes out. Best game ever, great 2D match engine to watch the games live along with manager, player & goal of the month. Your board are also more understanding when you ask for money etc and also takeover bids have been included which can cause problems in your squad as the backroom staff are unsettled so you have ...

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Looked forward to this game ever since i heard it was coming out. After hearing what new features they were adding to last years excellent game i was even more excited. I was hoping that i wouldn't be as addicted to it and do this every year since they split with CM but once again the game got the better of me. Last years game i thought was very good and wasn't expecting too many improvements to be made. I was suprised at how well they had improved ...
...to install and allows you to choose the database size etc as in previous games. The skin is brand new and you can spot the difference to last years. They made several improvements to the game from 06. Firstly it is easier to use and the newcomers to the game can easily start on this game and become a great manager in a few hours. The game offers tips and hints throughout but i din't use them as i like to try and be a good manager without any help, ...

les_2g2 10.01.2007 · Read full review
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...round off i belive that Football Manger 2007 is a brilliant game that has certainly keep me hooked to my computer for the past few weeks. So if you dont already own a copy then get yourself down to your nearest Morrisons and pick it up for 15 quid BARGIN you certainly wont find another footballing game on the market like this one!! ...

cockmunch 05.06.2007 · Read full review
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Properly the best managing game in the world by far all the things u could think off to improve 2006 version they have done. When u put in more than 1 league it doesn't slow your computer down and it only stops between games when YOU have news not everyone else When starting a game and u cant think what team to be there is a new option that u can click to randomise the team you want to play with I like that u can get your players to teach the ...
...player interaction with tings like before kick off, half time and full time team talks. You can ask them to train other players and ask to recommend players and staff Also there r more options to say to the press to make a player unsettled at his club so it could be easier to by Scouting players is 10 times better then it use to be u can get between 1 0r 3 games scouting reports and the scout compare the player with the best player in your squad ...

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