Football Manager 2013 - Taking 99% of your social life to achieve nothing but fake trophies

[Mr. Agree]

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With the release imminent, I thought I'd make this thread as I've rarely seen Football Manager on these forums.

[B]What is it?[/B]

Football Manager is the best-selling, most realistic football management series ever made. Football Manager 2013 celebrates 20 years of games from the people at Sports Interactive by introducing an array of new features.

This year’s version allows you to take control of any club in more than 50 nations across the world and includes all of Europe’s biggest leagues as well as database of over 500,000 real-world players and staff.

You’re in the hot-seat, which means you decide on who plays and who sits on the bench, you’re in total control of tactics, team-talks, substitutions and pitch-side instructions as you follow the match live with the acclaimed 3D match engine allowing YOU to make the difference!

As well as some landmark new features in the Career Mode, there are now new ways to enjoy your Football Manager experience.

[B]New features this year[/B]

[B]NEW TO CAREER MODE…[/B]

[B]Match Engine[/B]
The 3D match engine has seen huge improvements this year. Everything on the pitch looks more realistic; from the stadiums, the players’ movement, intelligence, and the way the ball moves through the air.

We’ve also introduced hundreds of new animations to make the game feel more realistic and we’ve made the whole experience more televisual by introducing new camera angles and showing the kick-off and final whistle.

[B]Manager Roles[/B]
Another notable difference is the significant restructure of the manager’s staff and a revamp of their roles. The most obvious is that we’ve introduced the position of Director of Football into the game for the first time, which will allow managers to pass on some of their workload, such as contract negotiations, if they choose to.

In addition to this, we’ve also increased the number of specialist coaching roles within the game and given the manager greater flexibility to choose which coaches offer advice and when. The manager can also choose to complain about boardroom interference – although that particular option should probably be used sparingly.

[B]Training[/B]
This year sees a total revamp of team training, with a new simplified overview panel combining general training and match preparation. Choose your weekly team weekly, give the lads a rest after a big win or drag them into training the day after bad performance. You can now even send your coach to acquire more training badges to improve their skills and send the whole squad away on a training camp.

[B]NEW WAYS TO PLAY…[/B]

[B]Classic and Challenge Modes[/B]
Football Manager Classic is a less time-consuming way to enjoy Football Manager. The essence of the game is exactly the same – the manager still takes charge of a squad of players and competes at whatever level he or she chooses – but they will now find that a number of their responsibilities have either been taken over by their support staff or have disappeared completely.

For example, while the player still takes charge of training in FMC, this is carried out at a 'full team' level only – there's no individual player training. And when it gets to matches themselves, there are no team talks or opposition reports... you just go straight to a game using the same 3D match engine as Career Mode. The games are played out in a quicker 'highlights only' fashion, but you can even speed this up by going straight to ‘Instant Result’.

Players who opt for Football Manager Classic will also find that they have a couple of further options in terms of how they play the game; they can either play a full open-ended ‘Career’ or they can choose to play in the new ‘Challenge’ mode.

In Challenge mode they’ll find themselves in a particular situation which will test their management skills over a shorter game time – usually half a season. Can you win a trophy with a team consisting almost entirely of kids? Or could you guide your club to safety despite being bottom of the table at Xmas?

We first introduced Challenge Mode in Football Manager Handheld 2012 and it proved to be so popular that we’ve decided to include it in FMC too.

The game will come with four free-to-play challenges, each of which feeds in to a global leaderboard.

[B]Network Play[/B]
The brand new Network Play is fully integrated with Steam’s network functionality which means that players should be able to set up and enjoy games against their friends far more easily than before. The Network Mode also allows people to set-up special one-off leagues and cups and to import their team from their career mode, so you can now end any debate about whose FM team is better.

The deeper integration with Steam will also allow us to manage worldwide leaderboards, so, for the first time you’ll really know how good a manager you are.

[B]PLUS MUCH MORE…[/B]

There are more than 900 new features, most of which will be announced via a series of video blogs. The key changes include a revamp of the loans system, a major overhaul of scouting, new press conference tones and an international management revamp.

[B]Some videos.. (Media tags don't seem to be working)
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[B]Screenshots - (Work in progress - Graphics are not the finished article yet)[/B]

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[B]BETA IS OUT FOR PRE-ORDERS THIS FRIDAY. GAME IS RELEASED 2ND NOVEMEMBER[/B]

[Griml3xx]

Started with Accrington Stanley, going to try and take em as close to prem division as I can..

I hate being Liverpool (any big team really) straight from the start, way too easy to win and just dominate every cup/comp for 10 years.

[lahey]

I've always thought it weird we never have FM threads on here, got to be a quite a few players on FP surely?

[Bowser_nl]

I've been playing the series since 98.

[Mr. Agree]

[QUOTE=Fergeh;38110754]I've always thought it weird we never have FM threads on here, got to be a quite a few players on FP surely?[/QUOTE]

I thought the thread had died when I first posted it :v:

Hoffenheim at the moment, got to January top of the table. Signed Ze Castro for £1m, not been that great. Signed Julian de Guzman for £150k, not been that great either who is now leaving at the end of the season. Managed to snap Kader Keita on a free though, although Volland has absolutely dominated AMR for me.

Near April, we've been scrappy and losing/drawing a lot of games. Fighting for a Champions League place now. Derdiyok has gone off form so I gave Joselu a second half chance against Leverkusen and we drew 2-2, with Joselu scoring two.

[Griml3xx]

[QUOTE=Bowser_nl;38110941]I've been playing the series since 98.[/QUOTE]

Same, been through the different eras of games. Premiership Manager, Total Club Manager, Championship Manager, FIFA Manager.

FM13 is easily the best management wise - new micromanagement things like 'Send to Reserves until fit' then being able to choose how many minutes they play per game in the reserves is all great but Total Club will always hold a special place on my list. You could actually spend the money you made as Manager and have a 'personal life' buy houses, cars, boats, family etc. Added a whole new element to the game.

[Mr. Agree]

Finished 6th eventually, a win off the CL. Needed to strengthen though, hopefully have a good go of it next season.

[Griml3xx]

Playing as Accrington Stanley, don't have many resources but still keep bringing in some good talent.

I like to bring Australians in and found a decent midfielder for my team.

Chris Triantis - 15 appearances, 5 goals, 8 assists, 702 passes completed out of 736, 32 tackles completed out of 40.

I needed another decent centre-mid without breaking my 50k budget, did a similiar players search.

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Yeah, I can't afford him... wait what?!?! my unknown Australian has 1 similiar player, arguably the best midfielder in the game right now, Xavi.

Edit to save from double posting:
Beat Arsenal 2-0 in the Capital Cup.
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