Getting better with each version, just not quite the challenge that Football Manager is
What we have here is that game engine refined just a little bit more than the last one, with slight tweaks here and there, what you have is a game that is very well presented and easy to navigate, it may be slightly overwhelming at first as there are so many menus at it’s easy to get lost if you hit the wrong button, but other than that it’s easy to navigate through.
This game also is quite in depth as far as tactics go, however, regardless of tactics the game does feel too easy if your team has been trained together for so long and they are all of a decent standard, then it just seems like they win just about every match regardless, you really don’t have to buy any players either because with the right coaches your team will progress quite fast as long as they are getting enough games, so you can really just bring in youth players, perhaps it’s just me but I find that the game is far too easy after just one successful season, since your team practically wins every match and there is little reason to buy new players unless you get a serious injury, and even then you may not have to.
Regarding the transfer system it’s quite over the top in terms of values and transfer prices, but it is rapidly improving, and it is well worth using scouts if you are new to the game and unsure about players, but in all honesty I tend to be able to pick out the right players quite easily, but I have been playing it for a while now. Of course you could always set the game to hard and have to judge players by there individual skills rather than have it shown in one overall bar, certainly making the game harder.
The match engine is also fairly good if a little clumsy, but at least you get to see the match played out in front of you, unlike every other management game out there, so it does have one advantage over its rivals there.
All in all it’s not near the quality of the Football Manager games but it’s getting better with ever passing game, and is the best console management game out there at the moment, well worth picking up if you want a game that will suck your life away for hours.