Love it Love it Love it BUT.
Graphics are sweet the moving around menus is easy as you like...BUT there are a couple of annoying bugs in this game which fingers crossed they could sort out for FIFA MANAGER 10. And heres the concerns.
1) SAVE file corruptions.
This seems to be fundementally the worst thing to happen to your much saved favorite team and something which seems to happen frequently. You think'd you'd be OK if you save lots. Ah no...after all the previous save corruptions noted by other players and here at patch 3...I'm now experiencing a corruption which causes freeze up...Ahhhggghhh...I hope this doesnt effect all the saved game entries...
2) LOADING in game TIME
This is more a little annoyance than a major issue...it can sometimes take ages to tick through screens...Autosave can take sometime too..if your wanting a quick load up and play a game...set the timer folks.
3) MANAGER SUMMARY
This screen shows options to improve..talk to players, look at ad boards etc..
but I have to say the links to problem areas is abit crap.for example.." you have a problem with staff skills" you say OK what needs changing...
sent to staff screen with no indication there after of what needs to be adjusted.
4) COMMENTARY and CROWD
Again this is abit of a moan but should be reasonably important...commentary comes out with stuff like "Oh arent arsenal playing well" when your not playing as arsenal..MOOD point.
As for CROWD NOISE...there is chanting for team names and stuff and its reasonably nice and effective, but come on EA crank it up a little...such as..
a) Low crowd noise for smaller grounds. Simple stuff...if you tie this in with as you expand crowd noise chatter increases..thats an instant inspriation for increasing the ground numbers for management over years.
b) As well as whistles from crowd for yellow carded players get let the sounds be more interactive with the play...make the volume of excitment increase gradually as you team moves into the oppostion half..
Other than above the game is frecking sweet...The main point to note is SAVES...if your save files get smegged...thats it folks game over...after spending months on your favorite team build up only to be destroyed by file corruption...its probably fair to say that would be it.