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Now, I was a little annoyed with SR getting rid of the gaming threads.
So please share your Championship Manger experiences in here.
Currently i am Sheffield Wednesday in the year 2030. This is the furthest I have ever got in any champ man game! THe other ones used to stop after 2026. Anyone know when it does end? If ever?
Anyways, whats the most you have sold someone for? Mine is £88M. Well chuffed with that sale. It was one of my home grown players as well. Came through the reserves and was a great hit.
So please share your Championship Manger experiences in here.
Currently i am Sheffield Wednesday in the year 2030. This is the furthest I have ever got in any champ man game! THe other ones used to stop after 2026. Anyone know when it does end? If ever?
Anyways, whats the most you have sold someone for? Mine is £88M. Well chuffed with that sale. It was one of my home grown players as well. Came through the reserves and was a great hit.
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Future Transfers:
Eben Saeijs Free Transfer
Igor Amor Free Transfer
John Harkes Free Transfer
Oleg Kuznetsov Free Transfer
Oleg is ukranian
Eben Saeijs Free Transfer
Igor Amor Free Transfer
John Harkes Free Transfer
Oleg Kuznetsov Free Transfer
Oleg is ukranian
Saw it today in WHSmith.....getting it on Thursday
dopeyjim in da house wrote:
> How much is the mag?
£5.49
you can try to download the demo from, www.sigames.com but that didn't work for me.
> How much is the mag?
£5.49
you can try to download the demo from, www.sigames.com but that didn't work for me.
How much is the mag?
English_Bloke wrote:
> dopeyjim in da house wrote:
> English_Bloke wrote:
> Who are you buying?
>
> A couple of people: Oleg Whats his face (dunno his name)
>
> Luzieny from Arsenal?
No, he is free
Think he is swedish
> dopeyjim in da house wrote:
> English_Bloke wrote:
> Who are you buying?
>
> A couple of people: Oleg Whats his face (dunno his name)
>
> Luzieny from Arsenal?
No, he is free
Think he is swedish
I just posted a review of Champ Man 4 that I wrote on the review section, But I had to cut so much of it to make it fit so I will post the full review here.
I am basing this review on the demo, which I have played non-stop since purchasing it yesterday. What are my first impressions? Does Championship Manager hit the back of the net? Or am I going to be giving the developers “a bit of stick”? (Warning these puns will continue throughout my review)
Championship Manager is the brainchild of genius from brothers Ov and Paul Collyer, just like a real child it showed great promise in it early incarnation and has blossomed over the years into something really special. The latest version, Championship Manager 4, is due to hit the shelves in just under a month and looks like it has all the makings of being the greatest of the whole series.
Since Championship Manager was released in the mid 1990’s many different game manufacturers have tried to cash in on what proved to be a previously untapped and highly profitable area of the gaming market. I myself have owned many of these and have always come to the same conclusion: if they were to play head to head, Championship Manager would always manage to muscle the ball of the opposition and clinically stroke it home.
Opposition manufactures have tried everything to knock Championship Manager from the top of the table, such as signing well know stars to be on the cover and even to do the commentary for the matches, but Championship Manager retains the title every season.
So what’s new? The last few editions of Championship Manager haven’t really tampered with the game too much, apart from updating which players are at which clubs, and maybe adding a few more player skill stats. Not so in Championship Manager 4, the developers have taken a very big risk that could have backfired and put the series on course for relegation.
Have these changes worked? Short answer, yes.
Lets start with the biggest addition, the new match engine. Over the years, whilst trying to upstage Championship Manager, many other games have introduced fully 3D matches to watch, whereas Championship Manager has stuck with it’s flashing text commentary. In the latest game EIDOS have introduced a 2D match screen so now you can actually see how your own version of “the Christmas pudding” formation stands up against Arsenal’s steady “4-4-2”. I found this to be an excellent addition, and actually better than a fully 3D match, which I always found made the ball appear as if it was on too much of a linear path, and therefore look unrealistic. The physics of the ball on the 2D pitch are brilliant and you could truly start to believe you are actually flying above the stadium watching a real game.
If you don’t like the 2D pitch, you still have the option of watching the old text commentary, and if you want to be truly immersed into the game you can even watch it for the full 90 minutes (better cancel any plans you had for this evening eh?).
After reinventing the match engine you could forgive the developers for just putting the game out with that one change and going for a long holiday in Hawaii, but no. The next area of the game they decided needed vamping up was the training centre and boy did they give it the works. You actually now have the ability to design your own in-depth schedules. Heskey keep having the ball muscled off him? Why not send him to the gym to increase his upper body strength. Did your team give a lacklustre performance in an important game? Why not give them something to think about by forcing them all to compete in a day of cross-country. The level of control you now have at your disposal is breathtaking, giving you the chance to actually develop your own style of coaching.
After these too stunning additions, just add a completely new screen display into the mix, new levels of interaction with the press, players agents, extra player skills such as a goalkeepers ability to organise his back four, more input from both the board of directors and the fans, and you will realise just how busy EIDOS have been.
To sum up, EIDOS have taken a superb game and turned it into a lifestyle choice. You will actually feel guilty fining a player a week’s wages and feel sorry for a player that becomes homesick. You must just remind yourself occasionally that you are not actually dealing with real people.
Any football fan out there MUST buy this game. Upon purchasing it they will ask themselves one thing, how can it get any better then this? Just wait another 2 years and EIDOS will show you how when Championship Manager 5 comes out.
I am basing this review on the demo, which I have played non-stop since purchasing it yesterday. What are my first impressions? Does Championship Manager hit the back of the net? Or am I going to be giving the developers “a bit of stick”? (Warning these puns will continue throughout my review)
Championship Manager is the brainchild of genius from brothers Ov and Paul Collyer, just like a real child it showed great promise in it early incarnation and has blossomed over the years into something really special. The latest version, Championship Manager 4, is due to hit the shelves in just under a month and looks like it has all the makings of being the greatest of the whole series.
Since Championship Manager was released in the mid 1990’s many different game manufacturers have tried to cash in on what proved to be a previously untapped and highly profitable area of the gaming market. I myself have owned many of these and have always come to the same conclusion: if they were to play head to head, Championship Manager would always manage to muscle the ball of the opposition and clinically stroke it home.
Opposition manufactures have tried everything to knock Championship Manager from the top of the table, such as signing well know stars to be on the cover and even to do the commentary for the matches, but Championship Manager retains the title every season.
So what’s new? The last few editions of Championship Manager haven’t really tampered with the game too much, apart from updating which players are at which clubs, and maybe adding a few more player skill stats. Not so in Championship Manager 4, the developers have taken a very big risk that could have backfired and put the series on course for relegation.
Have these changes worked? Short answer, yes.
Lets start with the biggest addition, the new match engine. Over the years, whilst trying to upstage Championship Manager, many other games have introduced fully 3D matches to watch, whereas Championship Manager has stuck with it’s flashing text commentary. In the latest game EIDOS have introduced a 2D match screen so now you can actually see how your own version of “the Christmas pudding” formation stands up against Arsenal’s steady “4-4-2”. I found this to be an excellent addition, and actually better than a fully 3D match, which I always found made the ball appear as if it was on too much of a linear path, and therefore look unrealistic. The physics of the ball on the 2D pitch are brilliant and you could truly start to believe you are actually flying above the stadium watching a real game.
If you don’t like the 2D pitch, you still have the option of watching the old text commentary, and if you want to be truly immersed into the game you can even watch it for the full 90 minutes (better cancel any plans you had for this evening eh?).
After reinventing the match engine you could forgive the developers for just putting the game out with that one change and going for a long holiday in Hawaii, but no. The next area of the game they decided needed vamping up was the training centre and boy did they give it the works. You actually now have the ability to design your own in-depth schedules. Heskey keep having the ball muscled off him? Why not send him to the gym to increase his upper body strength. Did your team give a lacklustre performance in an important game? Why not give them something to think about by forcing them all to compete in a day of cross-country. The level of control you now have at your disposal is breathtaking, giving you the chance to actually develop your own style of coaching.
After these too stunning additions, just add a completely new screen display into the mix, new levels of interaction with the press, players agents, extra player skills such as a goalkeepers ability to organise his back four, more input from both the board of directors and the fans, and you will realise just how busy EIDOS have been.
To sum up, EIDOS have taken a superb game and turned it into a lifestyle choice. You will actually feel guilty fining a player a week’s wages and feel sorry for a player that becomes homesick. You must just remind yourself occasionally that you are not actually dealing with real people.
Any football fan out there MUST buy this game. Upon purchasing it they will ask themselves one thing, how can it get any better then this? Just wait another 2 years and EIDOS will show you how when Championship Manager 5 comes out.
A couple of players I brought in for Rushden when I got them to the prem were, Ostenstadt (spelt wrong) from Blackburn, Lee Hendrie from Villa and Job from Middlesbrough. They got me many, many goals.
dopeyjim in da house wrote:
> English_Bloke wrote:
> Who are you buying?
>
> A couple of people: Oleg Whats his face (dunno his name)
Luzieny from Arsenal?
> English_Bloke wrote:
> Who are you buying?
>
> A couple of people: Oleg Whats his face (dunno his name)
Luzieny from Arsenal?
> English_Bloke wrote:
> Who are you buying?
A couple of people: Oleg Whats his face (dunno his name)
Some guy from some team
A few players from FREE transfer
:' )
I have got £1,700,000....soon to be....£1,200,000
:'(
> Who are you buying?
A couple of people: Oleg Whats his face (dunno his name)
Some guy from some team
A few players from FREE transfer
:' )
I have got £1,700,000....soon to be....£1,200,000
:'(
> English_Bloke wrote:
> Who are you buying?
A couple of people: Oleg Whats his face (dunno his name)
Some guy from some team
A few players from FREE transfer
:' )
I have got £1,700,000....soon to be....£1,200,000
:'(
> Who are you buying?
A couple of people: Oleg Whats his face (dunno his name)
Some guy from some team
A few players from FREE transfer
:' )
I have got £1,700,000....soon to be....£1,200,000
:'(
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