The UK release date for Football Manager 2012 has moved from the end of the year to October 21st. The big focus is on scouting, with some “significant improvements” this year:
“One of the biggest improvements to the whole game this year is the new team report. We’ve very lucky at Sports Interactive to have a large number of fans in amongst football, including many scouts who, with permission from their employers, give us the real scouting reports that they put together for teams when watching them for the manager.
And with FM12, we’ve implemented as much of this information as we can!
Not only do you get these reports when scouting the next opposition – you can get a team report from any club in the game world just by asking one of your scouts to scout them.”
Source: FM Blog
cc_star
Never played one of these before and I was thinking of taking the plunge, until I saw the new Master League vids for PES2012, there’s more than enough there for me
kjkg
Scouting and training have always been my least faveourite part of the game so not really overly excited about this. Saying that, I will still buy it.
BrendanCalls
Its just too all-encompassing for me these days. I preferred the days when me and 3-4 friends could sit around our PC and play a season out over a few days., Now it takes a few days to start a season. Does anyone know if I could get Championship Manager 99/00 except with a completely updated player roster
colmshan1990
Get the handheld version of Football Manager.
Moves along a lot quicker, and on the go!
The PSP version is great, and it’s on iOS too, although I haven’t played that version.
dazluss
You can get this for free:
http://champman0102.co.uk/forum/content.php
I think they do update the squads, not sure if it’s got this season’s or not.
aerobes
I still play 97/98 occasionally, it’s probably my most played game ever actually. I too, find the modern ones too all-encompassing. The PSP version is good, a lot more streamlined and I’m not sure about the iPhone version. I imagine it being a bit of a strain on the eyes but I don’t know.
BrendanCalls
Cheers guys, I’ll have a look at them when I get in from work
tonycawley
Why oh why oh why do they not bring this out on ps3? It’d sell millions I’m sure (well, at least one, me!)
a inferior race
Did you ever play FM on the 360? It was bloody terrible.
MrTwP
Isn’t a new FM game coming to the PSP i saw it somewheres.