Soccer Manager (Windows)

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Description

In this number-crunching soccer simulation game, you take on the role as the coach, manager and chairman of a club. You can choose between Germany, England, France, Italy, The Netherlands and Austria, with all official clubs and different divisions in the 2001/2002 season. Through an included editor, you can tweak all statistics, including the individual variables of the clubs. Next to the national competitions, which include the first two leagues, a regional league, a domestic cup and a super cup, you can also compete on the European level in the Champion's Cup (Champion's League) and the UEFA Cup.

The players' skills are defined by stars representing basic strength, fitness and morale, which can be improved, and special talents such as club loyalty and team spirit. Through a talent tree, players learn specific abilities at four levels during their career, such as calmness, dribbling or the skill to take a free kick, until they ultimately become a "Football God".

As a dedicated manager, you need to take care of your players' performance through detailed statistics, and constantly re-evaluate formations, substitutions and tactics. At regular intervals, trainings need to be held, while managing your finances through loans, ticket prices, kits and equipment, television rights and advertising revenues.

Contrary to similar games, Soccer Manager does not use a calendar system to plan events - all changes (transfers, building new stadiums, ...) take immediate effect. The matches themselves are shown live using a 3D view, but you cannot join the action yourself. Aside from regular gameplay, unexpected events occur during the matches.

You can compete with up to four players, online or over LAN, or on single PC in the hot-seat mode. The progress of network games can be saved on the host server.

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Alternate Titles

• "Футбольный менеджер 2004" -- Russian Title
• "Soccer Manager: pour les amateurs de sensations fortes" -- French tag-lined title
• "Soccer Manager: Para fans del deporte rey" -- Spanish Title.
• "Fußball Manager Fun: Einfacher Einstieg, Schnellere Erfolge, Spielspass pur !" -- German tag-lined title
• "Fußball Manager Fun" -- German title
• "FM-Fun" -- Abbreviated German title

Part of the Following Group

• Heartline's soccer manager series

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Critic Reviews

PC Games (Germany)	Jun, 2002	78 out of 100	78
Gamesmania.de	Oct 21, 2002	74 out of 100	74
PC Zone Benelux	Nov, 2002	70 out of 100	70
GameSpot (Belgium/Netherlands)	Dec 27, 2002	65 out of 100	65
GameStar (Germany)	Oct, 2002	62 out of 100	62

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Trivia

The in-game music is provided by independent artists from MusicFillingStation, a German website where artists can publish their music for free (non-commercial use), but also get a platform to allow for commercial use.

Related Web Sites

• Soccer Manager (Publisher's official website in German and English)