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"Football Manager '05"

Is dangerously addictive, almost impossibly deep, and is a truly marvellous management spectacle.

It is also frustrating beyond words, often truly ridiculous and is a cause of premature mental instability.







I love Football Manager '05

Coin, why did you choose a top team? I think choosing a top team isn't as fun.

When I get FM2005 i'll start with a team like Southend, make my way to the Premiership and hopefully enter the Champions League (I know that'll take ages).

Damn, just checked my Laptop's specs and it has a 934 Mhz CPU whatever that is but I don't think it'll be very good at playing Football Manager.

But it does play Championship Manager 4 okay so I might be lucky. And if it's too slow i'll install it on my Computer which has a 1.8 Ghz CPU.

Stridman wrote:
> If Championship Manager 2005's online mode was free I probably would
> have got that over this but seeing as it isn't I decided to choose
> the game that is overall the best.

What the hell? FM 05 bests CM in every way. It has an online mode to, that is free, as well as some of the best community sites, especially SIgames'.


> Coin, why did you choose a top team? I think choosing a top team isn't as > fun.

Well, I like starting off with a big team, winning things, buying players, but I quickly get bored and just play it every now and again, if I'm particularly frustrated that D & G can't win nothin'.


> Damn, just checked my Laptop's specs and it has a 934 Mhz CPU whatever
> that is but I don't think it'll be very good at playing Football Manager.

> But it does play Championship Manager 4 okay so I might be lucky. And if
> it's too slow i'll install it on my Computer which has a 1.8 Ghz CPU.

It says on the back of the case: 200Mhz processor at least. 1.8Ghz recommended.

<--- 3.2 Ghz. Roxor.

However it's still playable... My PC, however play's it without any wait - ever.

FM2005 is online? Cool, can you tell me how it works? Is there leagues to play in or do you just have matches against each other?

Play games w/ each other.

Basically like adding another manager. So you can both play (not matches) at the same time, then once you both click continue you advance and so on.

Haven't really done much with it yet though...

Doesn't sound great. Think i'll just play it by myself.

Whats the main changes from CM4?

I've played FM 2005 online quite a bit. Someone basically sets up a game then gives you the ip and you join. It's only really good with people you know imo.

I've downloaded the demo on my PC and it was pretty fast, I assume the actual game will go slower seeing as i'm only playing a demo right now? Well, i'm just about to try it on my Laptop to see if it plays fast enough cause I would really prefer to play it on my laptop which is in my room, right in front of the TV, I can lie down and play it and I can take it everywhere.

Ah man, i've been playing the demo for the last 2 hours. Im actually starting to worry what will happen to my social life once I start the fuull game...

Well the proper game's database is huge so it'll obviously take much longer to load. You can pick the database size though...and it also depends on what countries you pick too.