Write reviews of annual sports simulators, in the name of which only a well -known figure changes, a special art that Soviet journalists owned perfectly: you need to be able to do different texts about the same thing, making sure that your last year does not repeat the current word inword. However, in the case of Football Manager 2013 You will not have to resort to such miracles: there are really many innovations compared to last year’s version here.
Comfortable hardcore
Do not be scared, in the main new new Football Manager She remained true to herself: this is still the same hardcore, meticulous, detailed and, of course, the best simulator of real football happiness in the world, when literally everything depends on you in your favorite club. How to train Hulk, whom to put in a pair for the next match, by whom to replace the injured Nastrova, How to cheer up Zyryanov, For some reason, he considers himself unhappy at Zenit, whom to buy in a transfer window, whether to request from Alexandra Dyukova an increase in the budget, by what tactical scheme to play, is it worth it Alvesh Tough to meet Kirichenko, – Think yourself, decide for yourself.
If earlier, the assistant’s comments on what is happening on the field had to be called from a separate menu, now they will be displayed on a compulsory manner, which is why the game slows down more.
In addition to actually managing the game in the match, you are still engaged in a bunch of various cases: you participate in press conferences, personally communicate with players or appoint a general meeting, comment on the statements of other coaches, conduct negotiations on transfers, participate in the life of understudies, translating someone in time-Then in the main composition, and constantly burying in some piles of information, digging in graphs, tables, compare the data of different football players and so on.
But at the same time it is noticeable that in Football Manager 2013 The developers decided to make the player’s life more comfortable. So, the training menu has become much more convenient. Now you can not only determine individual classes with each player, but also assign general training for the whole team: you can, for example, decide that before the home match with Rostov, the team will in sparing mode to hone the skill in control of the ball, and after it,Before meeting with CSKA away, he will already intensively take up defense.
In addition, during the match itself it became easier to control the condition of the players: now the information is periodically emerging about how each of them feels, who has begun to get nervous and who looks quite normal. Accordingly, you can quickly make adjustments to the game or replace. And the opportunity to hire a sports director and shift part of his duties, for example, negotiations on concluding a contract with a new football player – is it not convenient?
To each his own
Of course, the true fans of the chief football manager want to control everything and hardly agree that someone else perform at least part of their work. Another thing is that Football Manager 2013 It is focused not only on them, but also on a more “casual” audience, or rather, on those who want to play a rather complicated and detailed simulator, but are not ready to spend all their time on it.
The number of assistants training and distributing advice has increased, but we can more flexibly decide who and when to give the word.
For this purpose, a new mode has appeared in the game – Football Manager Classic, which in its functionality really resembles earlier versions of the game when it was also called Championship Manager. In this mode, there are no many details and details. There is no way to individually communicate with players to raise, for example, mood Pavlyuchenko, Making him a mentor of some kind of understudy. No need to bother with individual training, and general classes cannot be planned a month in advance. Press conferences are not consisted of dozens, but of one question. There are fewer details in the transfer center: for example, you can’t call the player to the ranges, you can only offer a contract.
During the match, you do not need to speak some speech to the team and pointwise determine how to play for some specific player. When making replacements, you will not be able to give a specific installation output on the field. And most importantly, if you wish, you may not watch the entire match: set a general plan and instantly find out what came of it. This is really great saves time!
In addition, the Football Manager Classic is more focused on social networks: immediately after the victorious game you will be offered to share joy with Facebook* or Twitter users. And all kinds of “Achivka” (a Football Manager 2013 fully combined with Steam) here is given much more often.
However, all this does not mean that the new regime is something very primitive. No, it has a whole important set of functions of the main version and also allows you to quickly manage both the club and the specific game. Before the match, you yourself can determine the tactical scheme, assign specific tasks to individual football players (right up to piercing the penalty and where to stand while serving the corner), and during the match the entire set of tactical instruments on the spot. That is, the Football Manager Classic is rather an attempt (and very successful) to find a reasonable compromise between “casuality” and hardcore.
We are taking a fight
It is in such a lightweight format that another new mode is represented, which, we suspect, will be of particular popularity. In any case, it is after the success of Challenges in last year’s mobile version Football Manager The developers decided to transfer the “tests” to the main game. Here, as you already guessed, we are offered ready -made scenarios in which we need to show all your coaching and managerial genius. In one of them you need to hold the winning series, in the other you will have to literally survive, having inexperienced youth in their hands.
And having launched the third, you will suddenly find the dream of the fans of Spartak: in the yard December, Zenit takes the last place in the national championship, lost three matches in the group in the Champions League, Hulk, Witsel, Anyukov and others are injured, and it is completely incomprehensible what to do with all this. In a couple of days Dyukov It increases 10 times a transfer budget, but you can mainly buy only Russian football players … And even if many details of the main regime are not here, you still take such a challenge and stretch the team from the
bottom – an extremely exciting activity. Moreover, your results on this path will be taken into account in the global rating.
Finally, the Versus mode was no less interesting and fascinating: here you can compete against other players and your friends in online leagues and tournaments, importing your team from the main campaign there. The main thing is to quickly and without problems connect to the network game. And with this, unfortunately, not everything is okay, even if you have a Steam launched and a license version is installed Football Manager.
The forecasts of journalists and even information about what a match in the career of a football player are now displayed on the screen of the premium statistics.
However, despite some kind of flaws, Football Manager 2013, Of course, deserves the highest assessments. The developers go along the right path: preserving the hardcoreness and meticulousness of the game, they make it more saturated, diverse, modern and more accessible to the most diverse audience.
Pros: new fascinating regimes;the possibility of choosing how much time to play the game;more information before and during the match;more convenient training menu.
Cons: I would like more tests in Challenges;There are problems with network connections.
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