Reviewers Liked
- Ability to turn leagues off and on is a great addition
- Immense depth and interaction
- Tutorial mode to help new players
- Better contract negotiations
Devilish, addictive and with a more intuitive interface. Football Manager is still brilliant...
By Computeractive onFM 2012 is a long running sport’s management simulation concentrating on the running of a soccer club, rather than the actual playing the role of a player in games such as Pro Evo or FIFA. The history of this game stretches way back to the early 1980s...
By ImpulseGamer onIts a hard road being the perfect manager, and Football Manager 2012 definitely hammers that point home - its so in depth itll make your head spin, at least at first. As newcomers to the Football Manager series, we take a dive into the world of...
By NZGamer onA swathe of improvements and tweaks have almost elevated this new edition to more than a game, you have never felt so much in control of your team’s...
By Pocket-lint onStart playing Football Manager 2012 and odds-on 90 minutes will not be enough. On the face of it, Football Manager series is the most unlikely sort of game to cause just-one-more-game syndrome but after spending the length of a match with Football...
By Play TM onSports Interactive has wisely decided not just to rest on its laurels, but has made major strides to encourage unbelievers with the new tutorials, more flexible interface and livelier matchplay as well as introducing hundreds of minor embellishments...
By itreviews.com onOften beguiling and sometimes infuriating, FM 2012 remains a compelling and comprehensive sim of footie strategy and...
By PC Gamer onDave “Football – it's a funny old game”, the cliché goes, but is often found to be never truer than when used towards a football management sim. After all, what kind of game really uses screen after screen of numbers, stats, monetary values,...
By Yet Another Review Site onYour girlfriend will still dump you, the cat will still die because you forgot to feed it, and the boss will still fire you because the game is installed on your office computer. Football Manager remains as addictive as ever and continues to delve...
By Total Video Games onFM2012 is refined in many areas: better in most and messing up a little bit in others. It’s addictive enough to take up hundreds of hours and – while an extra 50 hours of play is necessary for us to know definitively – it’s the best version yet....
By NowGamer onFootball Manager is back with a bang for the 2011-2012 season, boasting many new features and designs. Let's see how it shapes up. New featuresThe new “Adaptive Layout” feature is very useful if, like me, you have a large monitor and prefer it as...
By Neoseeker onLet’s start with the facts. Football Manager 2012 is undoubtedly the best of the series. As ever, it’s addictive enough to mortgage your house, divorce your wife and leave your kids without feeling any remorse. At the same time it’s still the...
By Strategy Informer onIs Football Manager 2012 a revolution? Probably not, but in that respect it's a victim of its own success. When a game is this colossal, this rich, it's hard to see how it could possibly be bettered, match engine excepted. Is it worth shelling out 30...
By ign.com onCertain franchises inspire devotion through consistent quality and, often, enough little quirks that require defending them against the unbelievers. Football Manager is one such series, demanding a lot from its players and giving so much back in...
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