5 reviews
Football Manager 2018
They say football is a game of opinions and everyone has theirs, but it’s only yours that counts around here. You make the decisions now, from who you sign and who you sell, to how you manage your budget. Will you build tactics around the players at your disposal or train them in your vision of how the game should be played? Who you pick and who y...
Details
- Released
- November 9, 2017
- Developer
- Sports Interactive
- Publisher
- Sega Games
- Platforms
- PC
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Football Manager 2018 Reviews
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When I think about the Football Manager games, the first thing that comes to mind is just how relentlessly addictive they are. While I haven't spent much time
Football Manager 2018 is very good at what it does, the problem really is that what it does, is for a very specific subset of people, and to anyone outside of that it’s a game that feels far too often like you’re doing your taxes. It can’t be called bad, but I lament the lack of newcomer friendly features.
On the man management side, my problem is not with the way the data is represented. I like the hierarchy screen and I enjoy getting notifications to let me know that one of my players has settled into a new social group. The problem is that on the tactical side, Football Manager is packed with subtle changes and coaxing the desired outcome out of the simulation is a wonderful challenge. Squad dynamics lack those subtleties. I'm either the iron hand or the velvet glove, the arm around the shoulder or the hairdryer to the face. Eventually, I'm not playing a role at all, I'm just ticking the righ...