Should I buy this game?

Rickooko · 12-24-2007, 03:21 PM

Its pretty sad.

I remember in previous cm's i even pre-order the game online as i live oversea from UK.

Then, for fm07 i buy it after a month release and fm08 after 2 months release. I dont have to explain what happened.

DS · 12-24-2007, 11:54 PM

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Originally posted by bojanfan:
Thanks a lot for your help. See, I had sooo many issues with FM07, and if FM08 isn't better I almost don't want to deal with it. i mean I wasted a lot of time on FM07, but it was still a disgrace. The biggest fault of the game was making it impossible to sign a bunch of players. For instance, I couldn't sign Beckham from Real Madrid, even if I was Barcelona, even if I doubled his salary, et cetera, and this happened with sooo many players. Yet, what do you know, Beckham goes and signs with an American team. Why? For money. FM is just too presumptious for me. As in, it presumes to know which players would move to which clubs, and for what money. That would be fine with me if every player had a price, but the problem with the game is that when a player has "no intention" of joining your club, it doesn't matter how many billion euros u offer him a week - he still doesn't come sign with you, which is completely ridiculous, unrealistic, and a pain in the ass.
Secondly, the tutoring in FM was a pain. i wanted to mold my players and make them have more moves, but it wouldnt let me tutor them with the players i wanted them to learn from... et cetera et cetera...

Additionally, small name players would have much bigger impacts on the game than big name players. Steven Gerrard and Kaka would both average a below a 7.3 a game for me, when players like Guardado, Marcelo, Higuain, Eddie Johnson, Gago, Okaka, et cetera et cetera would average over 7.5's a game...

Just FM07 was such a complete mess that I was hoping it would get a major overhaul with 08, and... apparently... that's not the case, aye?

FM has always been like this and probably always will. I dont think there are any plans to change it and SI dont consider this a bug.

The bigger problem with FM08 is the match engine is broken and the rest of the game has some annoying bugs. However Spain is unplayable because of a squad registration bug.

Should I buy this game?

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Should I buy this game?