[*]Official web page: LINK
[*]Publisher: SEGA
[*]Developer: Sports Interactive
[*]Media type and size: Not available yet
[*]Genre: Management, Simulation
[*]Release date: October 21st
[*]Description:
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Football Manager 2012 allows you to take control of any club in over 50 nations across the world, including all of the biggest leagues across Europe.
You're in the hot-seat, which means you decide who plays and who sits on the bench, you're in total control of tactics, team-talks, substitutions and pitch-side instructions as you follow the match live with the acclaimed 3D match engine allowing YOU to make the difference!
As the boss you'll also have full control of team affairs away from the pitch:
Will you spend big-money on expensive superstars or put a focus on scouting for wonderkids?
How will you approach training & match preparation?
Will you be the chairman's best friend or always demand the best investment from the board?
How do you react when a young star has problems - a shoulder to cry on or a clip round the ear?
And how will you deal with tricky questions from the media?
Now it's time to put your opinions to the test.
New & improved key features for Football Manager 2012:
Manage Anywhere, Anytime - the ability to add or take away playable nations in your saved game as often as you want. Manage in that country at the start of the next season - meaning you don't have to decide on which nations are playable at the start of your career.
Transfers & Contracts - significant changes to the transfer and contract systems, including loyalty bonuses, better implementation of amateur and youth contracts, an improved transfer centre and the ability to lock areas of the contract negotiation when you aren't prepared to budge. This helps you to manage your budgets and gives you flexibility in what you offer money hungry players, or agents, as incentives.
Scouting improvements - using several real life scouting reports, a new in-game report was devised which includes squad analysis, tactics information and information about goals scored and conceded alongside lots of other scouting improvements, giving you all the information you need to prepare before kick-off and throughout the season.
3D Match Improvements - new animations, a whole new crowd system, improved weather system, more stadiums, plus two brand new cameras - "Behind Goal" and "Director Cam" as well as all other camera angles being reversible - meaning you can watch and analyse every aspect of every game.
Intelligent Interface - a new adaptive layout system, which means the higher your screen resolution, the more info is easily at your fingertips. The new interface also contains new filters, customisable columns, a new tactics screen, and lots of new overview screens.
Tone - a whole new level has been added to team talks and conversations, with the new tone system, which allows you to specify the way you want to say things - be as cool as a cucumber by saying things calmly or throw tea cups around by saying things with passion. There are 5 different tones to choose from with specific comments per tone.
Brand New Tutorial - standing separate from the main game, a mode to help new players find their way around the game easily, whilst also offering tips to experienced managers on how to get the most out of the game, as well as a new in-game "how to" system.
On top of these key innovations, there are over 800 new features making huge improvements, such as the media system, press conferences, the youth system, newgens, the social networking options, friendlies, international management and many more which will be detailed in a series of video blogs over the coming months, alongside more information about Football Manager 2012.
Requires Internet connection to install.
[*]Multiplayer: YES (hotseat or network)
[*]System requirements: PC Hardware requirements:
OS: Windows XP/Vista/W7
Processor: XP - 1.4GHz or Faster, Vista/W7 - 2.0GHz or Faster
Supported Processors: Intel Pentium 4, Intel Core, AMD Athlon
Memory: XP - 512MB RAM, Vista/W7 - 1.0GB RAM
Hard Drive Space: 2GB
DVD-Drive: 4x Speed
Video Card: 128MB
Supported Chipsets - Nvidia FX 5900 Ultra or greater; ATI Radeon 9800 or greater; Intel 82915G/82910GL or greater.
Earlier cards may only display 2D Match Viewer Mode and are not supported.
Earlier cards may require the DirectX 9.0 SDK is installed to run the game. This can be downloaded from the following url: www.microsoft.com/downloads
Laptop versions of these chipsets may work but are not supported.
This time you can actually continue your save games once the game is officially out, as you can add more leagues on the fly. Plenty of new additions this year.
This time you can actually continue your save games once the game is officially out, as you can add more leagues on the fly. Plenty of new additions this year.
I doubt it since they'll probably bring out a patch, which will require a new game to get all fixes working.
To anyone who tried demo already. Is that only cosmetic change or do we get complete new tactics system? And I'm assuming outdated player growth depended solely on potential ability is still untouched?
fawe4 - the new look tactics screen is just that..a new look...same underneath as FM11. Not sure about the player potential/ability but i have not heard of them changing this method so I would assume its still the same.
There are lots of little touches added to the game, the ability to add and remove leagues is probably the biggest change. Overall it plays very similar to FM11. I'm still playing FM10 so I will probably make the jump this year to FM12. FM11 just didn't feel complete so hopefully FM12 is better.
Eurogamer: How effective is Steam at cutting out piracy? How many sales are saved?
Miles Jacobson: Again, you can't talk about saved sales. It's an impossible stat to track. Steam is effective at cutting at day-zero, and pre-launch piracy. Time will tell whether in FM12's case, it can stay protected beyond that.
It looks to me they are testing the grounds with different protection schemes. They went from high DRM, to no DRM to Steam. It would be curious to see how sales this year compare to the last one. Especially sales later after release as Steam can be a pain with cracking patches.
I just wish they skipped one year and spent solid 2 years on making some revolutionary changes this game really needs....
What revolutionary changes would those be?
- overhaul of media
- overhaul of tactics
- new engine for 3D match engine
Just to name a few things. Media is repeatable and boring crap right now. Tactics aspect is still poorly done. Why can't I choose if I want my free kicks to be crosses or shots, why my tactics can't have two options: one for defense, one for attack, etc. Match engine/animations, everything about looks like from a game made 10 years ago...
I just wish they skipped one year and spent solid 2 years on making some revolutionary changes this game really needs....
What revolutionary changes would those be?
- overhaul of media
- overhaul of tactics
- new engine for 3D match engine
Just to name a few things. Media is repeatable and boring crap right now. Tactics aspect is still poorly done. Why can't I choose if I want my free kicks to be crosses or shots, why my tactics can't have two options: one for defense, one for attack, etc. Match engine/animations, everything about looks like from a game made 10 years ago...
I fully agree with tactics part. The irony is that they had different attack and defense options way back before 2d engine. And it is a bit weird that FM as a hard core football simulation, has less tactical options than FIFA and PES.
DLgamer is legit and The Dugout (an FM fasite) is a supporter.
Yeah, I knew about the dugout, just not dlgamer. I might as well order that one, I don't think there is going to be any better deals any time soon. Somehow managed to play the demo for ten hours, time flies even faster on this year's edition! And that's not even a good thing.
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