Iv had the new version of football manager 2010 for about a month now, since it was released at the end of october infact. I have now completed a few seasons (with Bury!) and have been largely impressed. In my opinion over the last few years the football manager series, although the best of the management sims, I feel there has not been an awful lot of progression aside from various skin changes or the addition of the odd feature, press confrences, team talks and last year the 3D match engine(which I was not greatly impressed by) and such like. This year though I think there has been a great improvement. Firstly I think the navigation and general skins are alot ...  Read the complete review

So, once again, its that time of year when Football Manager (or still Champ Manager to us oldies) returns to shop shelves everywhere, tempting us to part with our hard earned cash the latest stats and players. After last year's abomination of a game, can FM regain a place in our hearts? The short answer, for me anyways, is yes. Last year's installation issues are a distant memory. This took me about an hour to install (I had to do it twice due to not installing DX9 initially and having to go through it all again, there may be an easier way!) and loaded up straight away. The initial load for my first time took about five minutes, which did cause me to panic, ...  Read the complete review