Football is an extremely popular occupation, whether it is courtyard entertainment, watching an important match with friends, or another raid in some PES 2008. Therefore, football is also a large market with crowds of buyers, standard techniques and their laws. To feel confident in such conditions, you need to have at least one important feature. The series FIFA SOCCER – This, of course, is a license and promotion, PES 2008 – Smart gameplay. Football Manager 2008 offers an excellent depth of mechanics on this score.

It so happened that in the genre of football managers, by no means casual games, competition is an order of magnitude higher than that of representatives of the simulator fraternity. You just listen: there is a handsome man here FIFA Manager, And Championship Manager, Once being developed Sport Interactive, And nightmare Premier Manager, and even the domestic miracle of thought – “Spartak. Football manager “. Everyone tries to stand out as they can, but in the nomination “The most encyclopedic” to engage in Football Manager 2008, alas, nobody, alas. This, perhaps, is the main plus, as well as the main minus of this game.

The downside is that the unprepared player get used to the hard football world FM 2008 will be difficult. No, don’t think! It has more than a convenient interface for the genre. There is everything: buttons of quick access to important events, convenient advanced menus, transition to the previous window, transition to the next window. The only problem is that the possibilities in the game are a great many. Local information lists are monstrously huge and cause the strongest ripples in the eyes. Is it a joke, only one football player has 10 information tabs, such as profile, personal data, physical form and others. Each of these, in turn, opens a whole screen of various data that issues the entire summons of the athlete to the mountain. Height, weight, date of birth, plans for the future, favorite clubs, complaints – for full ammunition, there is not enough unless the “Mother’s Material House”. But this is still without taking into account actions that can be done with the athlete!

However, this trouble is partly compensated by prompts – one of the innovations FM 2008. They are implemented simply and efficiently: in each game screen, for Winstler Casino revoir example, the “Preview of the match”, a dialogue cloud appears (comics saw?), which contains the text of the hint. Sometimes, if there are several development options, it is proposed to be a choice – indicate the action that we would wish to perform. After pressing the line corresponding to him, the process of luster begins. Carefully prepared text, in detail tells what, how and why you need to click. It, in accordance with the material presented, is highlighted, getting rid of you from the need to search. Very convenient and practical. Plus, I am glad that the tutorial usually does not exceed 4-5 short lines. Tiring reading of multi -page guidelines – existing mockery.

Of course, sophisticated managers can calmly abolish this function. Unfortunately, there was a place and a disorder – the developers themselves were not written very much, so sometimes you have to stay with a uber -detailed interface one on one. And here weapons are intelligence.

Apply a gray matter where. As mentioned above, the game is simply replete with capabilities, development options and highly specialized statistics. Not one of at least a significant point has left the explosion of the developers. There is no talk of tactical possibilities – they are in any self -respecting manager by default. You form the pre-match composition: playing football players, reserves-choose the formation: either standard schemes a la 4-4-2, or your own constructions based on intuition and experience. Another innovation lurked here. Now the replacements can be done in real time, not afraid to miss the current situation from. From now on, the players and the field are displayed on the screenshot.

Before any match, you can see statistics, expectations of analysts, statements of coaches. After – data about the game of football players, the ball and the rest of the details. The team can be instructed, for example, “relax and enjoy the game, guys”, if we are talking about a friendly meeting. You can report after the battle, you can morally encourage. Ronaldo showed himself completely sluggish – the coach is dissatisfied, let him know. Runi scored three goals – let’s call him well done, will be happy. In addition, we have the right to choose individual training plans for each athlete, twisting the sliders of power, aerobic and other loads. If he is very tired, and morality fell below the plinth, which is certainly reported in the profile, then it is worth sending it to rest, the duration of which you choose yourself.

Club employees facilitate the decision -making process: doctors will report about the physical condition of the football player, the assistant manager will tell what the weak and strengths are, in pairs with whom he plays best. Materials for deep analysis – mass. Over the only location of football players on the field you can meditate for three hours in a row: each has a favorite position, weaknesses, preferences.

Needless to say, this is only 1/50 of all available in FM 2008. Random events are very pleasing that can dilute a frozen atmosphere and bring the nth share of acuteness to the process. One of the players can catch a cold, and give rise to the risk of an epidemic in the group. You will have a choice: send a fighter for treatment home, minimizing the risks of infection of others, or give the local wizards of medicine, which will put it on his feet much faster. From time to time, news, offers and newspaper publications will come to the mailbox. They can be ignored, you can answer, you can put the ducks in the press yourself – for example, declare in an interview that you would like to purchase one very promising player. FM 2008 is also enriched with the Trust section, where you can assess the level of goodwill against our person from fans and leadership. Constant victories, excellent financial indicators and popular measures – the key to success. Alas, no one loves losers, so a few defeats are able to prettyly belittle your status in the eyes of the public.

Perhaps FM 2008 is able to upset only those citizens who came here for entertainment, beautiful goals and familiar faces. If you first encounter this football manager, we will reveal a monstrous secret – he is a two -dimensional. Absolutely, uncompromisingly, without a hint of 3D, without a single hint. Matches play in front of us chips that are cheerfully rushing across the field and happily cunning cunning combinations. It’s hard to say whether this is a minus or plus. On the one hand, of course, this is terribly not modern and not aesthetically aesthetic, but on the other-in some ways even wonderful. You see, if Sport Interactive suddenly made a sharp transition to 3D, then it would have succeeded either a terrible, inhabited obscureness, or the release of the project was transferred to a year to two or three years. Now we have in our hands the schematic football, which in the most shameless way stimulates our imagination. And it, having awakened from a deep sleep, inevitable after photorealistic Crysis, begins to assemble. The action is fascinating, behind each chip you begin to see the personality, and to enjoy unexpected breakthroughs and goals, like Russia’s victory over England.

To the visual component of the local interface, however, there are no complaints. Everything is polished, the details are fitted under each other, and it looks quite pretty. Let it be somewhat alapo.

There is enough melomaniacs. For FM 2008 not a single one, even the most litter melody. Here, alas, not FIFA and not a bottomless pocket of EA. Pressing the buttons, the transition from one menu to another is accompanied only by silence. Matches are commented exclusively in the text form and the roar of the crowd, apparently the only sound in the whole game. But this, again, is not a minus. Managers are projects of the genre that is associated with a leisurely thoughtful gameplay. Therefore, any, even the most ingenious soundtrack would have had a bore anyway over time. For extreme cases, why do you have Winamp or iTunes? Use your health.

Talk about FM 2008 no longer makes any sense. Great football manager where there will be almost all elements of happiness for the beginning leader of the clubs. Deep, smart, worked out amateur game. If you classify yourself to those, or want to become one of, then we ask for mercy. Only three things will be required: perseverance, analytical thinking and knowledge of English.

Pros: An extensive database;smart gameplay;Very possibility.
Cons: visual asceticism.