Football Manager
The name Football Manager carry two games of the genre sports simulation. The English term or its German counterpart football manager calls this game genre in general. The player assumes the role of a manager in the English sense, thus ensuring the life of the association. He is responsible for player transfers and scouting, management of the squad and the coaching staff, the training and the tactical setting of the team. In contrast to German football management games, the English "manager" does not affect things like appearance of the stadium, ticket prices, improving the club facilities or negotiations with sponsors.
Overview
The first, known as Football Manager game was a series of football manager games, which was from 1982 to 1993, and is referred to as the first football management simulation ever.
Since 2004, the name Football Manager for the former as Championship Manager ( in Germany Master Trainer) is known games series the studio Sports Interactive (SI Games) used.
Only the name, the SI Games no longer allowed to use longer, after the publisher Eidos, who own the rights to the name " Championship Manager " to SEGA who own the rights to the name " Football Manager ", changed to the game series this changed.
In North America, the game was sold as Worldwide Soccer Manager, in South America as Futbol Manager. Since the label FM2010 Football Manager will only be used.
Football Manager Live
On 20 April 2007 SI Games announced a football manager MMORPG called Football Manager Live.
The player could it put together his own team from a selection of all in the database of Football Manager included players and games are played against other human coach in the style of hat trick with this team.
The game was released in November 2008 and was only available in English. The project was discontinued in May 2011.
Football Manager 2008
The Football Manager 2008 for PC and Mac was released on 18 October 2007 in Europe and on 23 October 2007 in America. An Xbox 360 implementation is planned for March 2008.
In the first 12 weeks after release of Football Manager 2008 was in every week at least # 3 on the UK sales charts, including 6 weeks at number 1, and so confirms his status as the most successful football management simulation in the UK.
Football Manager 2009
Released on 14 November 2008 attended the Football Manager 2009 over its predecessors with a fundamental innovation in, the 3D view. Instead of the 2D view and the text-based view of the previously available one could pursue the field of play and the players for the first time in a three-dimensional model. A change between perspectives at any time possible. Other innovations were females in the game ( eg female trainers ) and the new press conference module.
Also, for the first time was possible thanks to the cooperation with the DRM distribution platform Steam to install the Football Manager without a DVD and play. However, the alternative online or telephone activation via Uniloc caused numerous problems on the part of customers.
Football Manager 2010
On 30 October 2009, the Football Manager Manager appeared in Europe in 2010 initially for the PC and Mac, as well as a version for the PlayStation Portable under the name Football Handheld 2010.
In addition to the revision of the 3D Match Engine, there was especially a major innovation: The Football Manager 2010 there was the first time the possibility to unlock competitions outside the officially playable leagues and edit. So it is possible, for example, instead of making Germany to the 3rd league down to the top and even dressing leagues playable.
Football Manager 2011
The successor to the Football Manager 2010 was 5 November 2010 ( As before for PC and Mac) published. A version for the PSP followed on November 26, 2010.
Among the main changes included the introduction of players' agents in the course of contract negotiations.
Football Manager 2012
The Football Manager 2012 could be purchased on or after October 21, 2011 worldwide. Among the new features included, for example, two new camera angles during the 3D view. Another new feature was the ability to activate playable leagues in the game at any time on or off again. Also the interaction region has been revised so that it was now possible to use different tones for player speeches and the like.
Now only on Steam Activation of Football Manager 2012 was possible. Other possibilities accounted for the activation.
Football Manager 2013
Football Manager 2013 was released worldwide on November 2, 2012. Ahead preordered could play a beta version, which already had the same scope as the main game except for a few additional programs. The FM 2013 came up with many new features. Thus, the match engine was overhauled and fitted with over 100 new animations, which are intended to represent the game even more realistic. The training has also been revised and simplified, teams also now have the opportunity to ride in training camps. Also new was the introduction of new roles among the employees. Here, for example, the director of sport was introduced, where you can leave all the tasks as a human trainer, the more administrative nature ( eg extend contracts, players agree ) correspond.
The biggest new feature was undoubtedly the introduction of a new mode dar. The Football Manager Classic allowed the player to complete a season quicker, because it has a simplified interface and omitted many details of the main game. This mode uses the same database and the same match engine of the main game. There were challenges with the so-called pre-defined challenges that the player was able to master (eg a season to remain unbeaten ).
For the first time sat Sports Interactive to unlockable in-game features ( so-called Unlockables ). For example, brought the successful completion of a challenge to the player Unlockable which can be used in Football Manager Classic. For example, the cancellation of work permits or the generation of a huge transfer budget. The player was also available for purchase, which corresponds more or less to the introduction of these DLCs Unlockables.
Finally we reached the previously developed concept of Football Manager Live, and gave to the players in the online mode, the ability to put together a team of players from the database, to let then take these teams in games against each other. The entire online sector was now completely linked with Steam in order to increase compatibility among the individual players significantly.
The international criticism for Football Manager 2013 was overwhelmingly positive. At Metacritic, the game reached its highest ever rating of the series.
Football Manager 2014
For October 31, 2013, the publication of the next part of the series was announced. For the first time the game will also be available on Linux. Furthermore, in 2014, to be available for the Playstation Vita a version of the game under the name Football Manager Classic for the first time. The further integration with the Steam network is also progressing. Thus Scores can now be stored online in the Steam Cloud and Steam Workshop, users can provide their own graphics, leagues extensions or challenges other users to download.
The transfer behavior has been rewritten and now holds numerous clauses ready, which can be observed also on the real transfer market again and again ( such as a purchase of a player with immediate Rückleihe to the releasing club ). The match engine has undergone further changes and was expanded to include new animations and realistic player movements. The tactics area of focus has been placed on stronger players and their roles. So there are other roles such as the shadow striker or the wrong Nine - names that now are commonplace in modern tactics and training methods.
By default playable are 117 leagues in 51 nations. However, other leagues can be activated by the enhanced editor with many features. For example, the German regional leagues can be made playable.
Football managers in Germany, Austria and Switzerland
In German-speaking countries, the Football Manager on the basis of exclusive rights which the DFL has awarded to EA Sports, not sold. This is the main reason why in many countries of the world very successful Football Manager series in German-speaking countries is almost unknown.
Therefore, it is provided by the developers since the 2007 version no official German language version available, but there are unofficial German language files available.