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

Thunderbolt Games	Windows	Nov 20, 2004	10 out of 10	100
Jolt (UK)	Windows	Nov 04, 2004	9.1 out of 10	91
PC Gameplay (Benelux)	Windows	Dec, 2004	90 out of 100	90
Club Skill	Windows	Nov 13, 2004	9 out of 10	90
neXGam	Windows	2004	9 out of 10	90
GameSpot	Windows	Feb 08, 2005	8.6 out of 10	86
JeuxVideoPC.com	Windows	Apr 21, 2006	15 out of 20	75
Fragland.net	Windows	Dec 10, 2004	73 out of 100	73
Inside Mac Games (IMG)	Macintosh	Oct 10, 2005	7 out of 10	70
PC Games (Germany)	Windows	Dec 09, 2004	67 out of 100	67

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Trivia

Together with ESPNSoccernet and GamesRadar, Sports Interactive Limited ran a contest from 12th February 2004 until 8th April 2004 to design the Football Manager logo. From over 6,000 entries, a final shortlist of ten was selected, for which users could vote. The contest was won by Stuart Luff from Sheffield who walked away with £10,000. The other finalists received a year's supply of Sports Interactive games and other SI merchandise.