Football Manager 2015

Football Manager 2015 is the most detailed and complex Football Manager yet. There are some really minor niggles in the UI and game design, but if you have enough patience and love for football, you will quickly breeze right by them. Football Manager 2015 is a must-have title for veterans and newcomers alike who wish to try their hand at leading their favorite clubs to the plateaus of victory.

Football Manager is not just a football game, it’s a football simulation. Although you could easily think of it as an incredibly complex open world RPG, there’s so much going on around your in-game existence that it’s not simply your personal experience, it’s a whole world of the beautiful game, happening inside your computer and you’re only the star – or villain – of your little corner of it. So much so that you feel it’s not really your game of Football Manager, you’re merely playing a role in its grand simulation of one possible universe of football in an infinite number of universes of foo...

Everything that makes the Football Manager series so damned addictive remains completely intact and has been expanded upon in FM2015, but intelligent changes made to navigation and the way data is displayed makes for a much friendlier experience and speeds up seasons considerably. The improved attention to detail on match-day, plus the new in-game team talk options, make me feel more invested, more like a manager instructing my team from the sidelines than ever before. Not bad for a game composed almost entirely of menus, really.

The great tinkerer.

Whether you’re scrawling tactics onto a board or on the training pitch in a tracksuit, Sports Interactive has crafted another great Football Manager experience for you.

So when the dust settles, I suspect that Football Manager 2015 will be regarded as one of the smaller evolutions in the series. It’s still the best in its field by some margin, and the UI changes are almost universally positive, but - from my perspective at least - it’s a shame that some of the longer-lasting problems with the match engine remain. Regardless, the addictive qualities of Football Manager are ultimately untouched, with the new scouting and player interaction options only ser...

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