Championship Manager 08

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I got this today and have been playing it for about 8 hours now

If anyone is bored of the same drudge that FM serves up every year, this makes a welcome change, the matches are 3d and very interesting to watch, extremely customisable as well.

I have to admit to being disgraceful at Football Manager, I am finding Champ man much easier, im sitting 6th in the SPL after 25 games, with St Mirren, i usually get relegated or scrape 11th. I am also running about 8 leagues and it flies along, much much faster than Footie Manager.

Well worth a look for fans

 

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Well for the record, I was a contributor for my team (St Mirren) for 3 years on Football Manager 3 and the next two updates, and have been playing it since the original Champ Man on the Amiga (how good was Chris Bart Williams in that game? )

I just find FM08 too sterile now, i know its accurate, but i also find it dull. I played a full season on CM08 yesterday and really enjoyed myself, i know its not realistic (I ended up 4th in the SPL), but it was fun, which really is the main factor in a game for me.

Even PC Gamer gave it about 80% so its definetly improving not just in my eyes.

 

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Hehe thanks. It was just a jest, a bit of a dig. Unless I'm very much mistaken the makers of CM (Eidos) aren't as close and in contact with their customers as SI are to us?

Football Manager 3?! I assume you mean CM3?

Any idea what they gave FM08? To make a proper comparison we need the same mag or site to review both the SI and Eidos versions and see what score they give each.

So you stay in on a full moon then?

Yeh of course, CM3

I think they gave pretty similar reviews, both were in the 80's.