Sports Games

Football Manager has become synonymous with football management simulation. For years, the Sports Interactive title can boast the scepter of undisputed leader of the category, thanks to constant refinement of the game play mechanics and a continuous input of new options. The situation has not changed for the 2012 edition, which features some interesting new products that will be appreciated by fans of the genre by those who want to sit on the bench for the first time.

An inexperienced player who is struggling for the first time with a title of any Football Manager series, especially with the latest edition, is submerged since the early moments of the game by an impressive amount of information. Check the directives from the Board regarding budget and expectations, schedule training sessions, reviewing and evaluating the rose of the team, participate in press conferences for the public to know their ideas are only part of the operations to be performed, all with a specific relevance to the purpose of obtaining a positive result.

Getting lost in the maze of screens is therefore rather easy or rather; it was easy to exit the Football Manager 2012. From this year, even before you start playing real, you can see five tutorials that focus on specific phases of the game (interface, market negotiations, management tactics ...) that illustrate the operation of the various screens and driving a novice to a point allowing it to enjoy a gaming experience not frustrating. Once you choose your own team and the game begins, you can also take advantage of the valuable suggestions of various employees and empower their various operations, setting up even the choice of training (in its entirety or only for some elements) of the starting lineup.

Enclosed within a graphic layout that has undergone an operation designed to make restyling easier navigation through the myriad of options available, there is a game engine that combines all the features of previous editions and adds some interesting new. The section on tactical management team has been enhanced with the ability to set three different tactics customized callable at any time (so as to reduce downtime in the event you wish to change the scheme), to choose that mentality and philosophy down in the field and set the style of game that a player will follow in the course of a game. For example, a central midfielder can be set up as recovery balloons or director, is taking into account the features of the player in question according to the needs of the team.

The relationship between player and coach has been greatly enhanced and the phases of a few moments before the start of the game, usually rather sacrificed in Football Manager, are now the source of many possibilities. In addition to dialogue with the team in which to impart general information you can talk to individual players, not only choosing the words to say but the pitch to talk to. You can then be more or less friendly, more or less direct, and get different reactions depending on the characteristics of the player to whom the message is directed. Finally, also as regards the interaction with his players, has the amazing ability to create custom yells, a series of commands to be given in an instant during the game, without having to interrupt the game and enter the screen tactics.