Football Manager Handheld (PSP)

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For the purposes of handheld play, these snack-sized portions of managerial meddling work brilliantly, and help negate the tedious faffing that often goes with getting a game up and running. If all you want to do is focus on the team selection, in-game tactics and an occasional dip into the transfer market, then it's all here, and couldn't really be any more intuitive. Compared to the PC version it is nigh-on impossible to look at a player and decide that they'll be good.

Winning wasn't too hard so I used to challenge myself by playing with League 2 teams and take them to the Premier League (Omar Koroma ftw), but I'm currently struggling to win against lowly opposition with Liverpool. A small reduction in the number of stats, the removal of superfluous graphics like club badges, and the super-sharp quality of the widescreen PSP display makes it possible to still cram in tons of detailed information with very little in the way of compromise. Dozens of formations, team tactics, player tactics but it just seems something undefinable is missing. Plenty of FM-era features make it into the mix, though, with full media involvement, including transfer rumours, accurate player histories, five speed-settings during matches, full tactical control, agent approaches and player unrest, injury diagnosis and feedback, staff feedback, data accurate to the January transfer window (barring loans, we're told) not to mention the same excellent transfer/contract negotiation system that we're all used to. And the main point to note is SI make the game they are in no-way responsible for its pricing that is all Sony.Check out our full review closer to the game's April 13 release date to find out whether our last line of FM defence will finally be breached. The first thing to address is the speed of the game, and how the PSP can possibly cope with the vast quantities of statistical data that bring manly PCs screaming to their knees. Gamer Network Limited, Gateway House, 28 The Quadrant, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 1DN, United Kingdom, registered under company number 03882481.

The shoulder buttons, meanwhile, act as 'back' and 'next', and within minutes the general navigation becomes almost as easy as the full game. All the posts above that say you can't view this in 2D, can't offer players to other clubs, fining players, no player unrest, no players asking to be transferred etc are talking crap! Out of necessity and hardware limitations, SI has been forced to have a rethink on what core features really matter to players, and as such has ended up with a product that has far greater mass appeal than it would have had otherwise - a point Jacobson repeatedly qualifies. Trust me a lot of love and care is put into the handheld games - however we have a very small team (was 2 programmers - up to 3 this year) working across a number of platforms in comparison to the PC/Mac team which numbers vastly larger (for comparison purposes there are more than 2 times the number of people working on the 'match' area of the PC code than on the entire handheld team). net is owned by Gamer Network Limited, a ReedPop company and subsidiary of Reed Exhibitions Limited.actually its a bit better now but not quite,the rgb colors are wrong look and compare with the mpeg version. There have since been several versions of Football Manager released across many formats by Sports Interactive and Sega. Just don't let your joy about the new streamlined match preparation and in depth contract negotiation system creep into your pillow talk, for God's sake. So, imagine our delight (and slightly guilty fear) when we got to feast our eyes on Sports Interactive's forthcoming Football Manager Handheld, due for release on the PSP on April 13th. Far from worrying about commutes and lunch breaks, SI boss Miles Jacobson jovially suggests another reason to celebrate the brand's transition to the Sony handheld: "It's the best game to play while having a crap," he says, giving us a disturbing mental image we didn't want to dwell on for long.