retired_kabruhn

I played Total Club Manager before they changed it into FIFA World Manager or whatever it's called. Since you're asking, I'll give you my main gripes.

1) I built youth camps in every country on the globe, at a cost of around £50m. I also upgraded my youth centres, hired the best youth coaches, and signed all the best prospects at every age. However, none of them were good enough for the Premiership. Realistic? Maybe. But when the Premiership's top stars were Raul, Ronaldo, Nistelrooy, Zidane, Figo in 2010/11, you start to realise that re-gens don't work.

2) There were two scores. Fitness and fatigue. Fitness decreased slowly season by season, while fatigue increases season by season. I invested around £10m each season on sending the team to specialist holiday camps where fatigue and fitness were meant to be improved, but it never worked. Eventually the players were flopping around all over the pitch due to a lack of energy. This got worse season by season, regardless of player age.

3) The tactics were ridiculous. There weren't any positions so to speak, positions moved like they do in FIFA or Pro Evo. Also, every player was scored out of 25, which meant that scouting and so on was worthless. Whoever had the highest score went in the team.

Having said that, it did use a FIFA engine for graphics so it looked lovely. It doesn't even compare to FM.

retired_halfshell69

Got a degree in extreme exaggeration based on zilch then </BLOCKQUOTE>

Absolutely 'overwhelmed' by the amount of people in here... </BLOCKQUOTE>

How about:

here

here

here

here

...i could go on.

Granted the OP did exagerate, as i personally wouldn't claim the game to be an absolute disgrace, but doesn't everyone exagerate at some time or other? What he said was basically accurate, there are a lot of people who aren't happy with the game, whether it is more or less than previous years i do not know (nor do i especially care) but this is the first time i have been dissappointed with an FM.

As to the question in the original post, no the competition is hopeless, perhaps some decent competition would be useful, but tbh i can't see it happening any time soon. FM08 may have flaws but it is still the best around. Just pray for 8.02.

retired_Miss Yummy

I'm not sure I care if there is a sim better than FM 08. What I wanted is for FM 08 to be better than it is.

retired_Miss Yummy

Yes, but you are a "brain-dead" "idiot", and a "Customer", which means you are almost always wrong. FM 08 is the best sim ever produced so **** off.

Dav1d

Yes, but you are a "brain-dead" "idiot", and a "Customer", which means you are almost always wrong. FM 08 is the best sim ever produced so **** off. </BLOCKQUOTE>

Erm, ok.

Go try other games for yourself, there are demos available. FM is still the best IMO.

retired_jon2508

While I actually believe the fully patched version of FM2007 beats the present version of FM2008, it's ridiculous to suggest there are any better management sims. From what I've seen the competition is a long way behind in terms of realism and accuracy.

retired_aries

I really can't believe some of the posts here these days.

It's no surprise that many of the SI staff don't frequent the forums as often. Why should they when there's such "enlightened" topics as this started...