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Football Manager 2007

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Game Info

Publisher: Sega Europe

Developer: Sports Interactive

Genre(s): Sports Management Simulation

Players: 1

ESRB Rating: E (Everyone)

Release Date: December 1, 2006

Summary

(Known as "Worldwide Soccer Manager 2007" in the U.S.) New to Football Manager 2007, and one of the most requested features on Sports Interactive's forums has been the addition of feeder clubs to the game. You can establish your club as the small team who receives loan players from a larger club or a large club looking for support getting your youngsters match experience by loaning them out. Have the first option on players from clubs, and schedule pre-arranged friendlies each season by simply asking your board for a feeder relationship and choose from the list they compile. Youth Revamp - A complete revamp of youth teams sees full youth squads for each team that has a youth set-up, thus giving a much better system for the regeneration of players in the long term game. Football Manager 2007 gives players a new easier to use default skin, along with hints and tips throughout the game, and an improved tutorial. In addition to better feedback from your assistant manager and scouts as well as lots more media, customisation and multiple row selection, all this adds up to the most user friendly Sports Interactive game ever. A complete revamp of the scouting system inside the game leads to more information about players and teams being made available to managers, as well as a more realistic methodology for player scouting. This system allows scouts to grow and improve their knowledge-base of the world's football players. You can now talk to any player in the world via the media. Player interaction allows you to tap up other teams stars or see if players will buckle under the pressure. An effective manager must use the media as a motivational tool - why not praise your own players in many different ways or shout at them for loss of form? For more varied ways to talk to your team, SI have worked hard to deliver vastly improved team talks at half and full time. Not only this, but pre-match team talks will now be making their first appearance in Football Manager - so you can send your team out onto the pitch with a specific briefing. [Sega Europe]

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What The Critics Said

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Official Xbox Magazine UK

Don't be surprised if you end up caring more about your virtual team than the club that you support in real life.

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VideoGamer

Fans of last year's console title will be thrilled by the new control scheme, making the game even more of a social life risk than before, while newcomers will have a far easier time getting to grips with things than they would have done last year.

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GameSpot

Sports Interactive's best title to date combines stability and variety in an immersive football experience.

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360 Gamer Magazine UK

It's dripping with detail, and is as engrossing as ever, yet still feels like a PC game shoehorned not entirely comfortably into a games console. Which it is. [Issue 18, p.71]

Eurogamer

The 2007 edition feels a far more intuitive and thoughtfully designed effort in every respect that oldcomers will adapt to with ease, and newcomers will have no trouble finding their way around.

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X360 Magazine UK

Ultimately, it's just too stripped-down to justify the cost. [Issue 14, p.86]

What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this game is 9.0 (out of 10) based on 3 User Votes

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Darren D. gave it a9:
An almost perfect management game spoiled only slightly by the control layout.

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