Football Manager 2010

fsquid · Post by **fsquid** » Fri Oct 16, 2009 10:49 am

Demo is out

http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/news/Fo ... 88957.html#

Rodster · Post by **Rodster** » Fri Oct 16, 2009 10:56 am

Thanks but i'm waiting for the full version demo.

macsomjrr · Post by **macsomjrr** » Fri Oct 16, 2009 10:19 pm

Awesome. I'm totally in the mood for this right now. Just watched The Damned United (which was awesome BTW).

JRod · Post by **JRod** » Sat Oct 17, 2009 3:23 pm

macsomjrr wrote:Awesome. I'm totally in the mood for this right now. Just watched The Damned United (which was awesome BTW).

Oh man is that out...I want to go see that! Great to hear Mac!

JRod · Post by **JRod** » Sat Oct 17, 2009 3:23 pm

macsomjrr wrote:Awesome. I'm totally in the mood for this right now. Just watched The Damned United (which was awesome BTW).

Oh man is that out...I want to go see that! Great to hear Mac!

fsquid · Post by **fsquid** » Mon Oct 19, 2009 9:14 am

I have it on my hard drive, just haven't gotten around to burning it.

fsquid · Post by **fsquid** » Tue Oct 20, 2009 11:34 am

by the way, no Worldwide Soccer Manager in the US. US will get the same game as the Euros.

JRod · Post by **JRod** » Tue Oct 20, 2009 12:36 pm

Read Four Four Two's review of Champ Man and they gave it high marks. Wow didn't see that coming.

Still I'll take FM.

fsquid · Post by **fsquid** » Tue Oct 20, 2009 1:48 pm

just listened to the podcast on epltalk.com with one of the creaters. This year you can customize leagues and competitions. Might make an Americas championship with North, Central, and South America.

davet010 · Post by **davet010** » Tue Oct 20, 2009 2:39 pm

JRod wrote:Read Four Four Two's review of Champ Man and they gave it high marks. Wow didn't see that coming.

Still I'll take FM.

Tried the CM demo - it's still crap.

feedback on the forums is also poor

Rodster · Post by **Rodster** » Wed Oct 21, 2009 7:42 am

Damn I shouldn't have canecelled my Amazon.com preorder. The price jumped from $29.99 to $39.99

fsquid · Post by **fsquid** » Thu Oct 29, 2009 12:13 pm

out on the torrents. Steam should let you play at 8EDT tonight.

fsquid · Post by **fsquid** » Thu Oct 29, 2009 1:59 pm

Saw this posted. I will use things like this for sure.

davet010 · Post by **davet010** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 4:15 am

Cool, now it's even more realistic as one season in FM will now last as long as the real one.

fsquid · Post by **fsquid** » Mon Nov 02, 2009 9:56 am

davet010 wrote:Cool, now it's even more realistic as one season in FM will now last as long as the real one.

???

davet010 · Post by **davet010** » Mon Nov 02, 2009 10:06 am

What I meant, Squid, was that now the addition of extra analysis tools etc means that it takes me even longer before and after a match to continue. I bought the full version on Saturday, played for about 2 and a half hours of a new game and have only played one game of the Premiership season (MCFC 1 Fulham 1), bought no players and not really gone into any wild tactics.

The interface with the tabs at the top is a massive upgrade though, and I like the staff meeting stuff.

fsquid · Post by **fsquid** » Mon Nov 02, 2009 10:17 am

Sadly, the game has been installed since Thursday night, but the in-laws took over the house this weekend. Haven't even gotten to play it!

Those things will help me though as before, you'd just see that X player got 1 of 5 crosses in. The above would tell you tell the cat not to cross early at all.

davet010 · Post by **davet010** » Mon Nov 02, 2009 11:07 am

Good point, and it's actually easier to work out how to tell them to do that as well. Most of the changes seem to be around the interface navigation rather than anything deeper within the mechanics.

Nice to see the crowd making an appearance as well.

fsquid · Post by **fsquid** » Mon Nov 02, 2009 12:27 pm

any big negatives you see so far?

davet010 · Post by **davet010** » Mon Nov 02, 2009 2:19 pm

I've only played a few games, and some of my struggles may relate to the fact that I've bought it on Steam and hence don't have a paper manual, but, and these are relatively minor

- I can't work out how to put my AM in charge of training
- the little symbols beneath players on the team selection screen were initially confusing
- 3d match is occasionally slow (when players are ambling over to take corners, etc), though in general the engine is much improved.

I think most of it is to do with not thinking about where options were in FM09, and using the help menus for a while until you know where they are now. But overall, a lot of things seem more intuitive.

pk500 · Post by **pk500** » Wed Nov 04, 2009 12:22 pm

It's been a two or three years since I've played an FM game, and I grabbed FM 2010. Man, the amount of detail and data is overwhelming. It almost melts the brain to play the game.

I enjoy the new layout, with the tabs and helper boxes. More intuitive than I thought it would be.

But I guess I'm not so dialed into footie that I want to sift through this much data to play a game. CM 01/02 was just right for me: Have the AM handle training, and I would pick a team, handle tactics and transfers. That's all I really want to do.

FM 2010 seems to be an incredibly detailed, realistic game, especially for the hardcore. I just don't know if I want to handle all of that or if I have the footie knowledge to do it.

Take care,
PK

fsquid · Post by **fsquid** » Wed Nov 04, 2009 12:45 pm

I usually just download a training schedule from the internet and I handle the tactics and transfers just like you mentioned.

pk500 · Post by **pk500** » Wed Nov 04, 2009 3:03 pm

fsquid wrote:I usually just download a training schedule from the internet and I handle the tactics and transfers just like you mentioned.

Not a bad idea. Where would I get that?

Thanks,
PK

fsquid · Post by **fsquid** » Wed Nov 04, 2009 3:54 pm

I like Tug's

http://tugstraining.webs.com/training/2010/index.html

davet010 · Post by **davet010** » Wed Nov 04, 2009 4:04 pm

Anatomy of a City match in FM10 (MCFC v Sunderland)

Goal ! Adebayor (10)

Goal ! Adebayor (54)

....time to look at me subs and..

Oh bugger

Goal ! Reid (56)

....spend last 10 minutes in our own area while I put my hands over my eyes

FM10 and real life....there is no difference