Championship Manager 03/04 (PC)

Recently filmmakers made a romantic comedy about “How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days”. If the reverse film were to be made this game would almost certainly take centre stage. Such is the addictiveness of this game that it is actually marketed by its manufacturers as something that will destroy your relationship. They are not far wrong. This is undoubtedly the most addictive game I have ever played ** Game History ** Championship Manager began life as the work of two football fans from Shropshire, Oliver and Paul Collyer, who developed the original game at home. Released in 1992 on the Amiga and Atari the game was a big success and prompted the first ...  Read the complete review

Unless you have been living in a mud hut on the planet Zog for the past dozen years you must have heard of the Championship Manager franchise as it is one of the best selling games in gaming history. The History If you are just emerging from your hut here is a brief outline of the game. Championship manager (CM) is a series of football management Sims founded in 1994 by two brothers named Collyer under the guise of Sports Interactive (SI) and is published by Eidos. SI now boasts a large staff and 25000 researchers across the globe who are busy watching and gathering information on clubs and their players to be included in the game. CM is ...  Read the complete review

Any football fan will LOVE Championship Manager (CM) - thats a law in my book. As a person who has owned the majority of all CM games in the series, you think to yourself, it cannot get any better, it is miles ahead of its rivals. And then, WHAM out comes another version which is even better!!! First off I will write the requirements of the game: MINIMUM: IBM PC or 100% compatible Windows 98 PII 600 96Mb for one league 128Mb RAM Direct X 8.1 300Mb disk space Mouse/keyboard 1024x768 32bit color display Football brain AIM: If you are reading this I am sure you have ...  Read the complete review

Championship Manager's latest, and in it's current form, last incarnation is Season 03/04. For many years the Championship Manager series has set and raised the bar in football management simulations, and the latest release is no different. The word 'simulation' is an important one here. There are other options on the market if you want manage a football team, such as the Premier Manager series or Total Club Manager. However, I would class these as 'games', rather than 'simulations'. I never feel as if playing Championship Manager (CM) as playing a game - it's my job, and I feel pressure, anxiety, happiness and excitement. ...  Read the complete review

Anyone with a PC gaming sense and an avid football fan will already know about the championship Manager series. They are more or less adding a new version to the shelves every year to include game improvements and player updates. As the last major update was championship Manager 4, CM 03/04 has built upon this version with lots of extra improvements and all the latest player transfers. After playing this game for 3 weeks, I'm going to give a rundown of all the improvements I've noticed since playing. Transfers & Team updates ********************************** As with every new version of Championship Manager, you have ...  Read the complete review