PALGN writes: "New players to the Football Manager franchise should sit up and take notice. This game isn't just another simulator like FIFA or Pro Evolution Soccer – you never really get to push the button that kicks that ball. Rather, Football Manager is a strategy game in which players spend the majority of time looking at menus. From the beginning, you become the boss of a football team, being responsible for financial matters, game tactics and player management and training. Indeed, if you're ever wanted to be a soccer supremo, then Football Manager 2008 on the Xbox 360 is the game for you.
Before you can start playing Football Manager 2008 for the first time, players have to spend a few minutes configuring a new game. From the countless nations and teams on offer, you can choose up to three squads to control over the course of the game. Players then create their manager profile, and as an added touch, you can display a picture of yourself using the Xbox Vision Camera. Finally, you select the individual team you actually want to manage. Only then can you take the place on top of the football hierarchy."
Eurogamer: "It's a shame when relationships end but it's often for the best. Football Manager and me had it all – long intimate evenings, weekends away, the occasional holiday. I'd thought we never split up. But eventually cracks began to appear, the physical side deteriorated, and we became strangers.
As an early adopter of pretending to manage a football team on a computer (i.e. a semi-autistic weirdo), a chronic addiction to Football Manager seemed my inevitable destiny. My first taste was the original Football Manager on the ZX Spectrum, whose bearded creator, Kevin Toms, appeared beaming on the cassette case cover."
Chris Evans reveals the truth of his younger days playing Football Manager and Championship Manager. His evil underhand tactics to win matches are unveiled for all to see.
The UK's loss of talented developers in the sports genre has been 'utterly huge' according to Miles Jacobson, the studio head of London-based Football Manager developer Sports Interactive.
In an exclusive interview with Develop, Jacobson explained that Canada's exemplary tax break rates – which peak at 40% of dev costs – was the reason why a number of British-born developers now work in cities such as Vancouver and Toronto.
