A fair experience.
Well, it's been a long time since I played a management game, and I enjoy the genre.
It was also the first time I did it on a console..., and it works, it works rather good.
The graphics engine is poor, though, very poor. Although this can be passable, I was expecting more.
Sound is even worse, and in this field there's really no excuse. Codemasters should have made it much, much better, as it's not a hardware generation constraint. Even older consoles can deliever better sound ambience that this lame attempt. Thanks the awsomeness of 360's media capabilities this can be avoided by connecting your Zune to the white wonder, and get away from mediocracy.
Gameplay however delivers. It's deep enough to be taken serious and not "over-deep" to the point one can stand to look at so many stats. And even so, eht depth level can be adjusted for each type of gamer, by definig the fields where your staff can help you.
Codemasters aslo delivers the information info updated up until September 2006, so one can allready see Ballack in Chelsea, and other high profile names in their actual clubs. However some less known players haven't got their info correct (e.g.: Douala is still in Sporting Lisbon...). From here further, it's very funny to see how clubs develop using Codemasters A.I. algorithm, funny as hell.
The pace of the game is also very well structured, and it doesn't get boring, even after long playing sessions.
All in all, I recomend this game, if not for its original retail price, at least from the "promotions bin".
It's another example of how eccletic 360's library is getting, without, ever, delivering cheap titles.