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Wot I Think: Football Manager 2016Nov 27, 2015 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunI’ve won titles and cups, and I’ve been sacked following a relegation that was more surrender than battle. I’ve found young stars at bargain prices, and built a team of overpaid ego-machines who are ready to down tools as soon as the going gets tough. After tasting success and failure, I’m ready to tell you wot I think about Football Manager 2016 . … Football Manager 2035Nov 19, 2015 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunThe year is 2035. I am the manager of Leeds United. I have Football Manager 2016, but I’ve been struggling to find an entry point. Starting a new FM career is a little like starting a novel you know is going to take you a year to read. I started careers at Manchester United, sighed, and closed the game down; I already knew too much about that story. I started a career with Portsmouth, sighed, and closed the game down; I knew so little about that story that I had no hook to draw me in. … Should You Update To Football Manager 2016?Nov 11, 2015 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunFootball Manager 2016 is out this Friday, but before we publish our review, Adam and Graham decided to gather in the RPS dugout to discuss this year’s tactics, transfers and press room meltdowns. Graham: I think I’d be pretty disappointed if I spent 35/$50 on Football Manager 2016. … This Is The Way The World Ends, Not With A Bang But A ClickNov 4, 2015 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunThat feeling when you finish a long series of books, or a television series, and say goodbye to the characters for the last time. Closing a world, pulling down the shutters and knowing that it has run its course, is a peculiar sensation. Indeed, it can provoke a sense of loss. How utterly ridiculous I felt last week when I mourned the ending of tens of thousands of tiny football-men, each of which is little more than a pile of numbers and behaviours. BUT CAN ANY ONE OF US CLAIM TO BE MORE THAN THAT, I thought, as I uninstalled Football Manager 2015 and prepared to move on to the beta for the new model. I’m very bad at goodbyes. … Have You Played Football Manager 2015?Oct 3, 2015 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunHave You Played? is an endless stream of game recommendations. One a day, every weekday of the year, perhaps for all time. As Football Manager 2016 edges nearer, Football Manager 2015 begins to fade into the rearview. How did we feel about the last yearly iteration of the longrunning management game? … Build Your Own Offspring: Football Manager 2016Sep 14, 2015 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunDid you know that you can have children in Football Manager ? Spend enough time in the managerial game and a player appears in the youth ranks of your club, a ‘regen’ who shares your family name. It’s your son, that, and he might go on to be a star. In previous installments, Junior was made up of a random assortment of stats, as likely to be the next Bruno Cheyrou as the next Zinedine Zidane. In this season’s release, you’ll be able do design your son for the first time. … Football Manager 2016 Reveal: Create-A-Club And MoreSep 7, 2015 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunAs soon as club football starts again after the summer drought, my mind turns to the next iteration of Football Manager . In an ideal world, it’d be released to coincide with the first kick of the season (for me, Bury away at Doncaster on August 8th) but with the late closure of the transfer window and (maybe) the need to check that Memphis Depay isn’t a figment of Louis Van Gaal’s imagination and that Falcao isn’t going to Do A Lazarus. It’s done when it’s done, and this year that’ll be November 13th, with a beta available around two weeks before that date. Along with the usual improvements, updates and tweaks, there’s an intriguing new game mode – Create-A-Club – and loads more. … Football Manager 2015 Summer Transfer Update ModSep 3, 2015 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunFootball Manager 2016 might be just around the corner, but if you’re anything like me, you’re probably following the new football season and wishing it was here already. Thankfully, Football Manager 2015 ships with a database editor that has let the community update the game with all the summer transfers. There are two ways to update your game so that Raheem Sterling is at Manchester City, Joey Barton is at Burnley, and David De Gea is… still at Manchester United. … 1000 years of the beautiful game simulated in Football Manager 15Aug 3, 2015 - PC GamerA dedicated football fan (the soccer sort) has used Football Manager 2015 to simulate 1000 years of Premier League play to determine the greatest team of all time. It took 58 days for the simulation to complete, according to Redditor Lorf_Yimzo, who posted his results in a spreadsheet listing each club's first, second, and third-place finishes in the English Premier League, as well as the European League and Champions League. Points were awarded based on each team's result, and he also documented how many seasons each club played in the Premier Division. The first century of the simulation contained a couple of surprises, Yimzo said (and I'll have to take his word for it), as Derby won the Premier League in 2021 and Stoke emerged as a dominant force, a position it held well into the 2100s, when Burnley stepped up and wrestled away the crown. After that, Sheffield United, Southend, Sunderland, and several others all had a turn in the spotlight, until the simulation ended in 3015, in "a struggle between Brentford, Ipswich, and Nottingham Forest, with the very last title ever going to Hull City." The most successful club of the next millennium was ultimately determined to be Sheffield United, just ahead of runner-up Burnley. The most consistent club, with 982 Premier League seasons played, was Burnley, followed by Arsenal, with 905 seasons. (Presumably with Cyber Wenger 3.0 in charge, says Arsenal-loving editor-in-chief Tim Clark.) The team with the best Premier League season of the next 1000 years was (will be?) Sheffield United, which managed 101 points in the 2374/75 season. 300 years later, Sheffield United also had the dubious distinction of being the least-disciplined team of the millennium, accumulating 103 yellow cards and 9 red cards in the 2697/98 season. The results are detailed in a number of screenshots linked in the Reddit post, and the save file is available as well if you want to load it up and play around. Are they accurate? Check back in 1000 years to find out, but the likelihood seems low. Sorry, Stokies. Free Weekend - Football Manager 2015Jun 4, 2015 - AnnouncementPlay Football Manager 2015 for FREE starting now through Sunday at 1PM Pacific Time. You can also pickup Football Manager 2015 at 66% off the regular price!* If you already have Steam installed, click here to install or play Football Manager 2015. If you don't have Steam, you can download it here. *Offer ends Monday at 10AM Pacific Time The 50 Best Strategy Games Ever MadeApr 24, 2015 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunAn entirely objective ranking of the 50 best PC strategy games ever made. From intricate wargames to soothing peacegames, the broad expanse of the genre contains something for everyone, and we’ve gathered the best of the best. The vast majority are available to buy digitally, a few are free to download and play forever. They’re all brilliant. … FM15.3.2 UpdateApr 8, 2015 - Community AnnouncementsWe've released a small update for FM15, bringing it to version 15.3.2, is available to download from Steam now. To get the update, simply exit your game, quit Steam and restart as normal. Your update should start automatically. This is a very limited update primarily to address the following: Safety check for frozen animations Fixed rare crash on startup Facebook API policy change Updates to licensed assetsGame On! Eastside Hockey Manager ReturnsMar 26, 2015 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunYou know, if you’re longing for deeper, stat-heavy, party-managing RPGs, you might not go far wrong with a sports management sim. Beneath the sporting veneer lie all the tactics, behaviours, and numbers you could hope for. Sports games are other games in disguise. I was only taking the piss a little bit with that FIFA demo post calling it real-time tactical action, you know. Football Manager has a fair few fans here at RPS, and now its makers are getting back into ice hockey. Developers Sports Interactive have revived the long-dormant Eastside Hockey Manager series with a surprise new game which launched onto Steam Early Access today. … Confessions Of A Save ScummerMar 1, 2015 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunThe current game is not saved. Do you want to save the game before you load another game? No. … Wot Games Did RPS Play Over Its Holidays?Jan 6, 2015 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunIt’s a pleasant fantasy to think that holidays mean long weeks of playing games, but in reality there’s trains and planes to be boarded, family to be visited, lives to be unavoidably lived. Gaming during holidays is therefore similar to gaming at any other time, about stealing moments to sneak away to a quiet corner and catch up on backlogs or curl up with comforts. Some of you told us what you played over the break yesterday, but here’s what RPS played between the parsnips and presents. … The Steam Holiday Encore Sale Starts Today!Dec 31, 2014 - AnnouncementThe Steam Holiday Encore Sale starts today! We brought back 40 of the most popular deals to give you one last chance to pick them up while they are on sale. Only 2 days left to take advantage of huge savings on thousands of games throughout our store. 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Collect all 10 cards during the sale to earn the Holiday Sale 2014 Badge, backgrounds and emoticons! This is your last chance to craft the 2014 Holiday Sale Badge. The Steam Holiday Sale runs until 10AM PST, January 2nd. Humble Sega Bundle is live, and also a bit weirdNov 26, 2014 - PC Gamer A new Humble Bundle is live. This time it's Sega's catalogue that's being plumbed for a pay-what-you-want bag of games. That should be a good selection for PC gamers—Sega have become a safe haven for some of our best strategy game developers. But while there are some undeniable classics, the whole thing is a bit... odd. Here's the list: Pay-what-you-want * Dreamcast Collection (Sonic Adventure DX, Space Channel 5 Part 2, Crazy Taxi and Sega Bass Fishing); * NiGHTS Into Dreams; * Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed; * Total War: Rome 2 - Caesar In Gaul DLC; * Miles' Tactic DLC for Football Manager 2015; Beat the average * Empire: Total War; * Company of Heroes 2 - The Western Front Armies: Oberkommando West; Pay $12 or more * Total War: Shogun 2 - Fall of the Samurai; There's some good stuff in there. Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed is a lot of fun, and thus the best Sonic game in decades. Empire: Total War is good, and Shogun 2: Fall of the Samurai is great. But it's strange that the bundle dials down so much on DLC for games that it doesn't also include. It's not like Sega don't have an extensive PC catalogue to draw from. Company of Heroes 2's DLC is the exception in that it's a standalone thing that gives you access to that game's multiplayer—albeit with limited options. Fall of the Samurai is also standalone, although I'm not sure why, for the increased price, it doesn't also include the bigger main game. The bundle runs for the next two weeks, and more games are promised down the line. And, as always, the bundle also benefits a selection of charities—including AbleGamers, Special Effect, The Willow Foundation and GamesAid. Gooooal! Football Manager 2015 Has a DemoNov 15, 2014 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunSo, any of you football loving types out there who prefer managing spreadsheets instead of having to actually sprint about a field yourself? You know where this is going if you’re a footie fan, yes I’m talking about Football Manager 2015. Our Adam was fairly torn on this year’s entry, so it’s probably a good thing that there’s a demo on Steam. There has been for a week, actually. Sorry we never mentioned it. So, what do you get in the demo? Me and my sports-averse brain will try and work that out for you. … Now Available on Steam - Football Manager 2015Nov 6, 2014 - Product ReleaseFootball Manager 2015 is Now Available on Steam! Football Manager 2015, the latest in the award-winning and record-breaking series, is coming to PC, Macintosh and Linux computers in November 2014. Football Manager is the most realistic, in-depth and immersive simulation of football management available, putting you in the hot-seat of almost any club in more than 50 countries across the world, including all of Europe’s biggest leagues. Football Manager 2015 will allow you to live the life of a real football manager – 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. Football Manager 2015 reviewNov 6, 2014 - PC Gamer Need to know What is it? Perennial spreadsheet shuffling management game. Reviewed on Nvidia GTX 570, Core 2 Quad Q6600, 8GB RAM. Price 30/$50 Release 7 November Developer Sports Interactive Publisher Sega Link Last year I played Football Manager 14 in classic mode , the faster, more streamlined version of the game. Going straight from that to a full game of Football Manager 15 is like sprinting headlong into a wall of molasses. Football Manager is often billed as the football RPG : selling the feeling of a manager s life as much as the strategy game built around it. It s one of those ideas that sounds fantastic on paper, but every time Sports Interactive try and embrace the idea, they just end up adding more press conferences. Press conferences are to Football Manager what Desmond is to Assassin s Creed. No-one likes them, no-one wants them, but SI keep trying to make them work. Now there are also tunnel interviews and lots more player conversations, all of which involve answering a series of questions and selecting a tone (assertively, calmly, passionately) and all of which take far too long. Things taking too long is a theme the theme of this year s Football Manager. Scouting players now takes several attempts, during which their attributes are displayed as a range (eg: 10-15) that you gradually narrow down. It s a totally unnecessary time sink. I spent two solid months researching duff right wingers before eventually giving up and googling for one, which lead me to the excellent looking Andrija Zivkovic in a fraction of the time. This is how most FM fans actually play, but instead of embracing this level of meta-knowledge, SI are acting like it doesn t exist. But it s hard to condemn the game for these irritations, because they all disappear the moment you flip over to good old classic mode. Scouting is instant, press conferences are kept to a minimum and unimportant matches can be resolved instantly. Classic values your time and gives you the tools to shortcut to the fun stuff. Of course if you do play that way then you ll find the game is almost identical to last year s edition, bar two crucial changes: the UI and the match engine. The UI is a genuine improvement. It s not only pretty, but includes some smart decisions. Some changes are clear reactions to how players use the game, like moving the much used quicksearch bar front and centre, while others try subtly influence them, like combining the player search and scout sections to encourage you to use your staff. Veteran players may chafe at having to unlearn years of bad habits but trust me, it s worth it. The bigger problem is the match engine. Criticising it is a dicey business. The way it works is so deliberately, wonderfully opaque that players tend to treat it like a force of nature rather than something that has ever actually been designed. But there s a significant pattern to this year s efforts: crosses are everything. Target men and traditional wingers are in vogue i...
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