Football Manager 09 details announced

Batman · Post by **Batman** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 7:17 pm

Yep, that's right, time for the newie

http://www.sega.co.uk/fm09/

release date - november 14th

you'll be delighted to know i've worked on this one, head researcher for Bolton, so hopefully this year the side and the club will be a lot more realistic

can't wait!

FD · Post by FD » Wed Sep 03, 2008 7:25 pm

It was hard enough winning games in the old ones, jesus Batty!

Seems a rather late release date though, season will be nearly half done!

Batman · Post by **Batman** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 7:26 pm

worth it though

3d match engine too, looks ace.

it'll be harder on this new one FD, considering my 'reappraisal' of some of our squad

FD · Post by FD » Wed Sep 03, 2008 7:37 pm

So how much have you estimated Davo's worth at?

Looks like I'll be using the editor before playing!

Batman · Post by **Batman** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 7:40 pm

untouched

however, there is an option to move players from 'slim', to 'stocky', to 'overweight'

took a lot of self control to leave that well alone for the odd player

Worthy4England · Post by **Worthy4England** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 8:17 pm

It's been crying out for some three-d-ism for a while. Only prob is that the glimpses we got on the vid didn't really show a lot - buggers. I've still got the original and Champ Man 2 somewhere (which is about the last time that I won owt on it)

Tombwfc · Post by **Tombwfc** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 8:30 pm

Totally unimpressed by the 3D. There was a reason CM/FM came out of the crowd and became the biggest manager game of them all, and a lot of it was down to the fact that it didn't have a clunky 3D engine clogging things up. It's just not FM. I'll give it a go, but i reckon i'll be sticking with 2D.

The rest looks quality though. Whens the Demo out?

Batman · Post by **Batman** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 8:37 pm

they haven't even told the research team yet

be about 6 weeks before release

James B · Post by **James B** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 8:38 pm

looking forward to giving it a go, it's got gradually better as a game since they introduced the 2d in cm4 (which was a hideous version)

gonna have to crack open the editor firstly though, considering who our head researcher is

FD · Post by FD » Wed Sep 03, 2008 8:45 pm

Apparently demo is due 2 weeks before the release date.

Not keen on the 3D myself, doesn't seem neccesary at all, you'll be playing the matches yourself in 2011 at this rate.

James B · Post by **James B** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 8:58 pm

the 3d isn't necessary, you can change it back

at the end of the day, 2d or 3d, the main thing is whether the match engine continues to show signs of resembling a proper football match with intelligent ai on the pitch, hopefully the public beta testing for fm live will have helped in this regard as i hear that it has

FD · Post by FD » Wed Sep 03, 2008 9:08 pm

James B wrote:the 3d isn't necessary, you can change it back

Just think it's pointless and time wasted during development.

Regarding FM LIVE, I'm a beta tester for it and I'm really not keen on it! Has a lot of good stuff but a lot of bad ideas too.

Batman · Post by **Batman** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 9:09 pm

same here FD, i test LIVE and i'll not be getting it

not for 70 quid a bloody year

FD · Post by FD » Wed Sep 03, 2008 9:10 pm

I wouldn't be getting it if it was a tenner mate.

GingerMourinho · Post by **GingerMourinho** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 11:21 pm

It went downhill when they changed to 2D.

BWFC_Wyles · Post by **BWFC_Wyles** » Thu Sep 04, 2008 8:54 am

Batman wrote:Yep, that's right, time for the newie

http://www.sega.co.uk/fm09/

release date - november 14th

you'll be delighted to know i've worked on this one, head researcher for Bolton, so hopefully this year the side and the club will be a lot more realistic

can't wait!

Haha Nolan's gonna be sh** isn't he Batty?

Batman · Post by **Batman** » Thu Sep 04, 2008 12:21 pm

well it is a very realistic game

anyway

- 3D Match Experience: A work in progress for 3 years apparently, this year will see the debut of the 3D match engine in FM. You will still be able to choose 2D if you prefer however. Miles himself said that he found himself flicking back and forth between both of them throughout a game.

- Timeline bar added during match play, so you can rewind stuff at will etc.

- Assistant manager feedback during a game, on motivation(players motivation during a match), and general feedback like how your tactics are working, how the opposition are exploiting your tactics, or how you COULD be exploiting theirs etc.

- A new "regen/newgen" system, after the many, many problems in previous football managers. This will hopefully fix the issue where the skills of the majority of new players deterioate drastically in previous FMs.

- Inclusion of trial days, where you get invited to a trial day to watch a bunch of young players on trial.

- New transfer system. Transfer rumours section too. They rewrote the system from scratch, and "hopefully you'll see the game predicting more real life transfers".

- Press conferences are in the game, and happen before and after matches and when you first get a job.

- Option to ask players to learn special moves(aka preferred moves).

- You can play as a female manager.

- The whole confidence system has been improved drastically. Squad harmony and stature also added into that.

- Spent a lot of time working on the financial areas, to try and model them more correctly to real life.

- Widescreen support.

finally, storming out of press conferences, adding your own lines!

BWFC_Wyles · Post by **BWFC_Wyles** » Thu Sep 04, 2008 12:29 pm

That actually looks phenomenal!! Bring it on!

Worthy4England · Post by **Worthy4England** » Thu Sep 04, 2008 12:29 pm

Can't wait, it looks good. Not sure about female managers though - though it was meant to be realistic....

3D looks good - I'm in the "feature that I always wanted" camp - but suspect it will lead to a new watercooled processor and MB somewhere along the line....and they need to get the players looking like they're not floating above the ground...

hisroyalgingerness · Post by **hisroyalgingerness** » Thu Sep 04, 2008 1:04 pm

So Davo's worth about £6m and an all-round legend. Joey'O rotting in the reserves and Nobby worth about £2m with fitness issues. Looks like i'll be buying Champ Man this time