Worldwide Soccer Manager 2005

Description

Following a long association with Eidos who published Sports Interactive's Championship Manager games, the two companies parted. Eidos retained the rights to the Championship Manager name and Sports Interactive retained the game code and database which they developed into Football Manager 2005. This is therefore the first game in what became the long-running Football Manager series.

This game is primarily a management game. The player accesses all aspects of the game from team selection, transfers, media interaction tactics and the like via a menu system. Actual games are viewed in a top down 2-D mode. As is customary with games in this series a data editor is supplied so that the player can update the game as transfers take place and regulations change. Some of the game's featured statistics are:

• over one hundred attributes for each player,
• over five thousand teams in fifty countries,
• over one hundred attributes for each player
• statistics for over a quarter of a million players and staff,
• a database with over two and a half thousand contributors.

New game elements include:

• A Media section which allows managers to influence the managers of other teams and players by making statements to the press and TV
• A completely revised interface
• The Physio Room which provides accurate injury data

Alternate Titles

• "Football Manager 2005" -- UK title
• "FM 2005" -- Common abbreviation

Part of the Following Groups

• PC Gamer Presents Games
• SI Games' Football Manager series

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The Press Says

IC-Games	Windows	Nov 05, 2004	96 out of 100	96
3DAvenue	Windows	Dec 15, 2004	95 out of 100	95
neXGam	Windows	2004	9 out of 10	90
Club Skill	Windows	Nov 13, 2004	9 out of 10	90
Game XC (GXC)	Windows	Jun 18, 2005	8.5 out of 10	85
Gamers Europe	Windows	Nov 16, 2004	8.5 out of 10	85
Gaming Age	Windows	Nov 15, 2004	B+	83
Jeuxvideo.com	Windows	Nov 02, 2004	16 out of 20	80
Inside Mac Games (IMG)	Macintosh	Oct 10, 2005	7 out of 10	70
Multiplayer.it	Windows	Dec 16, 2004	7 out of 10	70

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Trivia

The game is banned in China because Taipei of Taiwan, the Hong Kong-Macao region and Tibet were represented as independent countries. China's Ministry of Culture said it "poses harm to the country's sovereignty and territorial integrity." Merchants caught selling the game, can get a fine of 30,000 Yuan ($4,400) and have their business licence revoked.