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Football Manager.com wrote:LONDON (August 11th, 2011) – Sports Interactive Ltd. & SEGA® Europe Ltd. today unveiled the latest version of their successful football management simulation series, Football Manager™ 2012. Planned to be in stores before Christmas, Football Manager 2012 will once again allow you to take charge of your favourite football team and put your managerial skills to the test.

The award-winning Football Manager series has now sold in excess of 7 million copies worldwide and has topped the UK and many European PC charts for the last seven years, with over 108 weeks at no.1 in the UK to date.

“We’re delighted to finally be able to start talking about Football Manager 2012” said Miles Jacobson, Studio Director at Sports Interactive. “It’s another year of evolution, with some revolution thrown in for good measure so we’re pretty sure our dedicated communities, and hopefully lots of new people too, get to play and enjoy the game when it’s released later in the year.”

Counting over 800 new features, not including changes to the rules of the games 50+ leagues, Football Manager 2012 promises to be the most realistic, immersive and playable football management simulation ever for any fan who has ever dreamed of making the big decisions, both on and off the field.


Key new & improved features for Football Manager 2012:

Transfers & Contracts – significant changes to the transfer and contract systems, including loyalty bonuses, better implementation of amateur and youth contracts, an improved transfer centre and the ability to lock areas of the contract negotiation when you aren't prepared to budge. This helps you to manage your budgets and gives you flexibility in what you offer money hungry players, or agents, as incentives.

Scouting improvements – using several real life scouting reports, a new in-game report has been devised which includes squad analysis, tactics information and information about goals scored and conceded alongside lots of other scouting improvements, giving you all the information you need to prepare before kick-off and throughout the season.

3D Match Improvements – new animations, a whole new crowd system, improved weather system, more stadiums, plus two brand new cameras - "Behind Goal" and "Director Cam" as well as all other camera angles being reversible - meaning you can watch and analyse every aspect of every game.

Manage Anywhere, Anytime – the ability to add or take away playable nations in your saved game as often as you want. Manage in that country at the start of the next season- meaning you don’t have to stay in the nations which are chosen by you to be playable at the start of your career.

Tone – a whole new level has been added to team talks and conversations, with the new tone system, which allows you to specify the way you want to say things – be as cool as a cucumber by saying things calmly or throw tea cups around by saying things with passion. There are 6 different tones to choose from with specific comments per tone.

Intelligent Interface – a new adaptive layout system, which means the higher your screen resolution, the more info is easily at your fingertips. The new interface also contains new filters, customisable columns, a new tactics screen, and lots of new overview screens.

Brand New Tutorial – standing separate from the main game, a mode to help new players find their way around the game easily, whilst also offering tips to experienced managers on how to get the most out of the game, as well as a new in-game “how to” system.

On top of these key innovations, there are lots of areas of the game that have had huge improvements, such as the media system, press conferences, the youth system, newgens, the social networking options, friendlies, international management and many more which will be detailed in a series of video blogs over the coming months, alongside more information about Football Manager 2012.

Dante wrote:I keep telling myself I won't buy this yet, but I will. I know I will and i'll put over 2,000+ hours into it like I do every year

Any words of a demo yet?

Dante wrote:I keep telling myself I won't buy this yet, but I will. I know I will and i'll put over 2,000+ hours into it like I do every year

Any words of a demo yet?

Coconut Bob wrote:

Dante wrote:I keep telling myself I won't buy this yet, but I will. I know I will and i'll put over 2,000+ hours into it like I do every year

Any words of a demo yet?

I never even entertain it as I know I'd cave in. Still, I always get my moneys worth. The problem with FM is that it means any other games get neglected, purely because I can enjoy it whilst doing other things instead of having to turn everything off to play it.

Apparently Demo should be coming this Friday

TigaSefi wrote:

Coconut Bob wrote:

Dante wrote:I keep telling myself I won't buy this yet, but I will. I know I will and i'll put over 2,000+ hours into it like I do every year

Any words of a demo yet?

I never even entertain it as I know I'd cave in. Still, I always get my moneys worth. The problem with FM is that it means any other games get neglected, purely because I can enjoy it whilst doing other things instead of having to turn everything off to play it.

Apparently Demo should be coming this Friday

I'll never forget installing Championship Manager at work!!! Good times!!!

Cuttooth wrote:Probably going to give it a miss this year, FM2011 was broken in some pretty fundamental areas.

Cuttooth wrote:Managerial changes make no sense 90% of the time (especially in the lower leagues), 33 year old players refuse to take any kind of wage drop despite a change of squad status, the home-grown status of a few players didn't count when registering them, the game doesn't think you might want to hire two coaches at once when putting out a job advertisement. That kind of thing.

The match gameplay itself seemed fine though, better than the previous years' games, although the new pre-match focus thing took the illusion away a little.

Peter Crisp wrote:Is it possible to turn of all the extra crap they've added (media gooseberry fool and a lot of the more complex training) and just get back to the basics of buying and selling players, picking a team and choosing with decent formation and tactics?
I'd like to buy this for me and a friend of mine but he has a laptop and I have no idea if this will work as this has always been rather a killer for slowdown on older kit.

Cuttooth wrote:At least once a season you'll have a manager in charge of a team that's in a title race leave to join one that's mid-table because of the club's pre-season reputation. It's stupid.

I saw Man City sack a guy then somehow convince the man in charge of runaway league leaders Chelsea to join them in 10th. Chelsea then hire the guy City sacked (manager swapping happens far too often) and go on to an easy league win.

Who's in charge of a club at any time is a huge part of Football Manager.

Coconut Bob wrote:

Cuttooth wrote:At least once a season you'll have a manager in charge of a team that's in a title race leave to join one that's mid-table because of the club's pre-season reputation. It's stupid.

I saw Man City sack a guy then somehow convince the man in charge of runaway league leaders Chelsea to join them in 10th. Chelsea then hire the guy City sacked (manager swapping happens far too often) and go on to an easy league win.

Who's in charge of a club at any time is a huge part of Football Manager.

Really, that never happened in any of my games, all the sacking and hiring decisions that happened have been fairly realistic. That said I don't think the situation you propose is entirely unrealistic, clubs reputation will always play a big part in luring in big managers, even if the team may be struggling at the time. Its not like the Chelsea manager left to join Blackburn Rovers or something.

Coconut Bob wrote:

Spindash wrote:

supremacy.