FM09 Review: Initial Impressions of the Demo Options

[Rob]

Recently, Americans have made their voices heard by electing an historically significant president on the platform of change. While being a much more trivial matter in comparison, Sports Interactive have also spent this past year developing the newest edition of Football Manager with the same ideologies in mind. An oft-heard criticism of FM08 was that it wasn’t a dramatic leap from the functionality and playability of FM07. Which is valid in many ways, and with the cult-like fanaticism of the FM community for the most innovative features year after year, SI Towers had an uphill climb to top themselves once again. The unprecedented inclusion of a 3D match engine view (with 2D “TV mode”) as well as increased media interaction, an over-hauled transfer system, updated league & nationality modules and a plethora of appreciated small bells & whistles, it is without question a much greater gap than we experienced this time last year. Was the FM community really ready for this change that they so clamoured for last edition?

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