Football Manager 2010 for PC and
Apple Macintosh, and Football Manager Handheld 2010 for Sony PSP
will be released on October 30th.
Football Manager 2009 is the most successful in the Football
Manager series to date, clocking up 22 weeks at No.1 in the UK (PC
charts) and selling in excess of 1 million copies worldwide, as
well as being voted the 2nd best video game of all time in a recent
Radio 1 poll.
Launch trailer...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVD_bfiuQEc&feature=player_embedded
In Game Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nP_ZD3svBJk&feature=player_embedded
According to data gathered from Football Manager 2009, people
played the game for an average of 240 hours each. Developer Sports
Interactive has spent the last year working closely with consumers
and the Football Manager community to implement key improvements to
this year’s game. Football Manager 2010 features new tools and
changes across the board including some big additions to improve
ease of use, navigation and feedback from the game with the
introduction of a brand new match tactics system, the debut of a
Match Analysis tool, a completely new look and new User Interface
among other features.
“We have worked very hard with the Football Manager community to
target not only the areas of the game that needed re-working but
also what we could add to improve what’s already there. We’ve also
conducted extensive usability studies which has led us to overhaul
the whole presentation of the game, which we’re really excited
about,” said Miles Jacobson, Studio Director at Sports Interactive.
“There has been a lot of polish to existing areas of the game but
it’s also driven us to introduce changes to answer some of the
feedback. We’re extremely confident that having done that we will
deliver the very best Football Manager to date in October.”
The introduction of a Tactics Creator makes it easier to instruct
the team to play the way the manager wants, alongside the
introduction of touchline ‘shouts’ and quick tactic changes for
instantly altering your team’s playing style during the match.
Working with coaches from various levels of football, alongside
some of the Football Manager community’s most respected independent
tacticians, the game now has an extensive array of pre-set tactical
options allowing the user to select a player’s role in the team
(such as ‘Ball winning midfielder’ or ‘Deep lying playmaker’),
however the option to use the old ‘slider’ controls remains.
Feedback from matches has been improved to give the user better
insight into where their team is going wrong, or right. A new Match
Analysis tool lets players see where shots, passes, crosses,
headers, tackles, fouls and interceptions have been made on the
field for all players on the pitch. Managers can view this analysis
both live in-game and post match, allowing them to pinpoint the
strengths and weaknesses of both their team and their opponent’s
and adjust their tactics accordingly.
Football Manager 2010 features a brand new User Interface, with a
light and a dark skin to choose from as part of a vibrant new look
and has undergone a complete navigational overhaul. The side bar
navigation of previous years has been replaced by an intuitive tab
system at the top of the screen, making Football Manager’s famed
depth easier to navigate and will make the game more accessible to
new players.
A brand new Data Editor will allow the addition of new divisions to
existing leagues and of entirely new leagues as well as making it
easier than ever to keep the game up to date, and do so for free.
The delivery of information to the manager has been refined with
users now able to sign up to the News Centre, an in-game
subscription based newspaper that lets you get the news that you
want about the football world and filter out the stories that you
do not need, making the football world as immersive as you want it
to be.
Following the debut of a 3D match view in Football Manager 2009,
this year’s release sees a revamp with improved AI, over 100 new
animations for the 3D pitch view, new stadiums, crowds, realistic
pitch degradation and better lighting, creating an even more
realistic match experience.
Further new features will be announced via a series of blogs in the
months leading up to the game’s October 30th release date which
will ensure that Football Manager retains its position as the most
realistic, most played, highest reviewed and best selling football
management simulation in the world.
Football Manager Handheld 2010 also has a host of new features and
improvements, including a brand new skin for the game and improved
match engine AI.