• Publisher: Sega
  • Release Date: Oct 20, 2011
  • Also On: PSP
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 45 Critics What's this?

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Generally favorable reviews- based on 124 Ratings

  • Summary: Counting over 800 new features, not including changes to the rules of the games 50+ leagues, Football Manager 2012 promises to be the most realistic, immersive and playable football management simulation ever for any fan who has ever dreamed of making the big decisions, both on and off the field.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 43 out of 45
  2. Negative: 0 out of 45
  1. Oct 18, 2011
    95
    More complete, more polished and more addictive than any previous edition, FM 2012 is coming to claim all of your free time.
  2. Nov 20, 2011
    85
    As a simulation it's second to none, but it's lost a little sparkle by being so deep. [Christmas 2011, p.82]
  3. Nov 22, 2011
    85
    Football Manager 2012 exercises the same sheer depth and freedom that have seen the series leave other football management titles in its wake.
  4. Oct 17, 2011
    70
    The series' domination of the management genre is not in question, but there are still areas where it could step up its game.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 23 out of 30
  2. Negative: 4 out of 30
  1. 10
    i will just say one thing.
    best game ever, the most amazing game that exist and i recommend it to everybody.
    when you start playing you just
    cant stop you wont even sleep. Expand
  2. Another year goes by and another fm reaches the market... I think the negotiation aspect of the game like negotiating players, buying and selling players is a lot more realistic. The negative aspects of this game is that there isn´t any major change from the fm 2011. Expand
  3. It was a very good game back in, let's say, 2007. The problem is that there are a number of persistent issues, that the developers decided to ignore and instead keep adding "eye-candy" (you can't really call it that in this game). The AI managers are poor, the game doesn't utilize well modern hardware, some parts of the UI make simple tasks tedious, there are inadequate situations with transfers and contracts. This title gets released every year, but the changes are not good enough to justify a new game. Nowadays it is only an okay game. Expand
  4. 2
    The humanity! I tried to get into this game, and have some fun with it, but I just couldn't. As a management simulation, this game just didn't work for me. From the menus, to the player skill sets, to the actual game simulations....nothing here was really fun or appealing to me at all. I should mention that I love the Baseball Mogul series, so it's not like I have a general dislike for sports manager games. Expand

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