Football Manager 2012

[TehLondoner]

Coming out at the end of October here is the information we know:

Manage Anywhere, Anytime – the ability to add or take away playable nations in your saved game as often as you want. Manage in that country at the start of the next season - meaning you don’t have to decide on which nations are playable at the start of your career.

Transfers & Contracts – significant changes to the transfer and contract systems, including loyalty bonuses, better implementation of amateur and youth contracts, an improved transfer centre and the ability to lock areas of the contract negotiation when you aren't prepared to budge. This helps you to manage your budgets and gives you flexibility in what you offer money hungry players, or agents, as incentives.

Scouting improvements – using several real life scouting reports, a new in-game report was devised which includes squad analysis, tactics information and information about goals scored and conceded alongside lots of other scouting improvements, giving you all the information you need to prepare before kick-off and throughout the season.

3D Match Improvements – new animations, a whole new crowd system, improved weather system, more stadiums, plus two brand new cameras - "Behind Goal" and "Director Cam" as well as all other camera angles being reversible - meaning you can watch and analyse every aspect of every game.

Intelligent Interface – a new adaptive layout system, which means the higher your screen resolution, the more info is easily at your fingertips. The new interface also contains new filters, customisable columns, a new tactics screen, and lots of new overview screens.

Tone – a whole new level has been added to team talks and conversations, with the new tone system, which allows you to specify the way you want to say things – be as cool as a cucumber by saying things calmly or throw tea cups around by saying things with passion. There are 5 different tones to choose from with specific comments per tone.

Brand New Tutorial – standing separate from the main game, a mode to help new players find their way around the game easily, whilst also offering tips to experienced managers on how to get the most out of the game, as well as a new in-game “how to” system.

On top of these key innovations, there are over 800 new features making huge improvements, such as the media system, press conferences, the youth system, newgens, the social networking options, friendlies, international management and many more which will be detailed in a series of video blogs over the coming months, alongside more information about Football Manager 2012.


The manage anytime, anywhere addition is the most exciting for me and maybe the "tone" feature as well. I also can't wait to play around with our new spurs squad, hopefully with less injuries :P

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[Dancubus]

Looks like I'm going to be single at the end of October then....

[CmonyouSpurs]

Any clue when the Demo's out?

[Iconic Drei]

This game gets too addictive..

[SweSpurs]

Any clue when the Demo's out?

Not official but it's usually 2 weeks before the full game, so prob 7th oct

[edmonds44]

they were saying that you would be able to have your say in shirt sponsors and what the new kit looks like... has this been added into it does anyone know?

I will buy it as i do all of them, but i cant help but feel the only difference is that you don't have to select nations at the start which in turn means you need a majorly high performing pc or it will run like a turtle!

[Dancubus]

The improvements that I'm most pleased with is the Manage Anywhere and the Scouting Improvements.

I hate having to loads 355174526652 leagues, just so I have the option of managing in Finland or Indonesia if I feel like a change. The processing times get ridiculous.

Being able to add and remove leagues is something I've wanted to see for a long time.

I've always said scouting needs improving, and they've done that, so I'm happy.

I do think that tactics creator needs A LOT of work though. I don't use it at the moment because it's too restrictive. If you get some complex tactical ideas, there's no way you can implement them using that.

[Dancubus]

they were saying that you would be able to have your say in shirt sponsors and what the new kit looks like... has this been added into it does anyone know?

I will buy it as i do all of them, but i cant help but feel the only difference is that you don't have to select nations at the start which in turn means you need a majorly high performing pc or it will run like a turtle!

Surely that's going to speed up the processing times, as you can load less nations at the start of the game, then pick and change as you go along.

[TehLondoner]

Surely that's going to speed up the processing times, as you can load less nations at the start of the game, then pick and change as you go along.

Exactemundo

[steventhfc]

Sounds epic, might buy it for once it sounds so good!

[TehLondoner]

Sounds epic, might buy it for once it sounds so good!

I wouldn't go that far

[edmonds44]

Surely that's going to speed up the processing times, as you can load less nations at the start of the game, then pick and change as you go along.

I thought it means it loads every nation at the start... i don't know maybe we'll just have to wait and see

[Oaks]

I never normally buy it, but this year i might think about buying it, with a possibility in actually buying it. Depending if I have a job yet.

[Dancubus]

I thought it means it loads every nation at the start... i don't know maybe we'll just have to wait and see

Yeah, that's a fair point. But then, what's the point in being able to pick and choose leagues on the fly? You could always load all the nations from the stat in the pervious games, it would just slow down your game, so I can't imagine then introducing a new feature which forces you to load all the leagues. I wouldn't have thought that they'd make a fuss over this feature unless it enhanced the gaming experience.

[TehLondoner]

Yeah, that's a fair point. But then, what's the point in being able to pick and choose leagues on the fly? You could always load all the nations from the stat in the pervious games, it would just slow down your game, so I can't imagine then introducing a new feature which forces you to load all the leagues. I wouldn't have thought that they'd make a fuss over this feature unless it enhanced the gaming experience.

I'm not sure if you understand this mate. Basically say I create a game which just includes England and the first 3-4 leagues and no other countries and I play as Tottenham which I always do, normally I would then be locked out of buying foreign players and managing other teams for instance Barcelona or FC Twente.

However after 3 or 4 seasons of winning everything, I can turn on the Spanish leagues, start to manage Barcelona, and turn off the English Leagues. Which would be awesome for my piss poor computer.

Also after a month or two after the game is released you may learn that there is a fantastic young player from some out of the way Eastern European country and therefore would be able to turn on that league and check him out.

Hope that is enough to convince you mate.