Championship Manager Pc
The job of football management sims is to emulate what happens in the real world, but Championship Manager has taken that brief rather too literally in recent years, following a trajectory that will be familiar to supporters of clubs such as Leeds United, Norwich City and Nottingham Forest.
Escuchar musica romantica de banda ms. Champ Man, as it is affectionately known, was the king of fantasy football games for many years – indeed, it popularised and defined the genre – until, in 2004, developer Sports Interactive fell out with publisher Eidos, took its crucial database to Sega and rebranded its games as Football Manager.
Eidos kept the Championship Manager name, plus its look and feel, and set up Beautiful Game Studios to keep the flame going. Which proved to be harder than anticipated. Despite several thoroughly justifiable critical maulings of its efforts, BGS persisted and, finally, it has prevailed.
Championship Manager 2010 marks a notable return to form. It's not perfect, mind, and not necessarily as good as the imminent Football Manager 2010 (depending on what your priorities are regarding such games), but it is at least once more fit to wear the shirt, in football parlance. Champ Man fans of yore will find the interface, with its familiar blue window-surrounds, reassuring, and the email inbox-style main screen should be intuitive for all.
Crucially, Championship Manager 2010 boasts a 3D match engine, which can be employed in training and the new set-piece creator. Less successful is the new scouting network, which has a pretty world-map screen, but demands that you allocate resources to individual countries before you can start poaching the cream of their young players – unlike Football Manager, which bombards you with scouting information from the off. A £5 service called CM Season Live will update your games with real data from the ongoing season.
But there lies the crux of the difference between the rival games: Football Manager can overwhelm you with sheer weight of information and stats; Championship Manager provides a simpler, more basic experience, which can be further tailored as you assign unfancied tasks to your Assistant Manager. Thus you can get on with whatever aspects of management you fancy. The downside is that it doesn't capture the sense that a football season is a giant, arcane soap opera like Football Manager does – Sports Interactive's efforts throws unexpected situations at you and places much more emphasis on your dealings with the media.
If you seek a straight-down-the-line football management experience that tests your powers of wheeler-dealing, man-management, tactics and training, then you will find Championship Manager thoroughly satisfying, for the first time since 2004 (recent efforts were unspeakably shoddy). If you fancy yourself as the next Statto, though, you'd be better off with Football Manager. At last, the beloved old stager has found a hint of its previous form.