REVIEW USING SUPPORTED GAME FROM SPORTS INTERACTIVE
THE GAME IS PLAYED ON IOS
[dropcap style=”style1″]F[/dropcap]or those who truly are a big fan for football game, nothing is greater than simulating to become a manager who leads their favorite team to the glory victories. And to satisfy the need and the dream of those gamers, developer Sports Interactive has brought one of the biggest statues in the sport game – Football Manager.- Developer: Sports Interactive
- Genre: Sport
- Price: $19.99
However, when mobile devices have become more popular, preparing to replace the position of PC, requirements in making a Football Manager for mobile are stricter and Sports Interactive meets many more difficulties. Even though the game Football Manager Handheld has been remade (released on PSP in 2006, iOS in 2010 and Android in 2012), those versions are such a false works cutting out all the best things in the Football Manager series.
There are extreme differences between PC and mobile performance, leading Sports Interactive getting to the dead end. Yet the “sunshine after the heavy rains” has been the releases of games in tablets such as iPad Air, Nexus 9 and Samsung Galaxy Tab S Pro… and helped Sports Interactive has chance to fix the problem and accomplish the dream by the game Football Manager Classic 2015.
So what are the differences between Football Manager Classic 2015 and Football Manager Handheld? And will it be possible for this game to reclaim the great quality of this series? Let us just find out the answers![su_icon_panel background=”transparent” border=”1px none #cccccc” shadow=”0px 0px 0px #eeeeee” icon=”icon: gamepad” icon_color=”#1f6dc9″ icon_size=”70″]
GAMEPLAY
[/su_icon_panel]Football Manager Classic is a mode which has appeared in Football Manager 2013 with the purpose on simplification of prolix managing system and allowing players to focus more on such factors as strategy to win. This function is so suitable to players who really want to have a chance to experience the feeling of being a real manager without spending so much time, in comparison to the full version of the series Football Manager.
In Football Manager Classic 2015, you will be the one who makes important decisions such as: sign the contract with the best players, choose the right starting lineup and substitution, create strategies… to earn victory. The match will be demonstrated through the 3D graphic images, exactly the same as the original Football Manager, bringing the most interesting experience to gamers.
Enormous database
Unlike its “brother” Handheld, Football Manager Classic 2015 has a data storage with 117 competitions in 51 countries together with 150.000 football players ready for joining. Of course all your favorite players, clubs which you admire so much and even famous managers, assistants… will appear in the game.
It would be easy to evaluate ability of a player with indices in details such as passing a ball, shooting at goals, speed, and stamina… and even cash flow management thanks to financial statement of the time. From the big to small team, superstars to normal player, all is listed in a precise way in Football Manager Classic 2015.
Sharp images – lively sounds
Graphic in Football Manager Classic 2015 seem to be mostly taken from PC version with interface, faces, logos, clothes… which are well prepared.
Moreover, it is necessary to talk about lively 3D matches in Football Manager Classic 2015, a fantastic experience ever for gamers. From now on, you will no longer watch colorful moving “dots” like Handheld version, those are real football players.
Every ball passed lines, shoots, goal scoring scenes, huge waves of supporters ready for screaming out, cheering excitedly in the behind side make gamers feel like standing in the middle of the stadium.
“KEY” FEATURE
[/su_icon_panel]Various strategic gameplay
To save more time and suit to a mobile game category, Football Manager Classic 2015 has created a system of brilliant assistant.
For example, searching potential player via Scout system, signing a contract with new players, giving out a list of training exercises for main formation, suggesting strategies, managing secondary formation… is done easily by scouts. Hence, the most important task, which you have to do now, is to build the best strategy based on a certain situation of the team.
This is truly the strongest advantage of Football Manager. With strategy adjusting system in Football Manager Classic 2015, it is possible to create hundreds or even thousands of different strategies as you wish.
Choosing formation (4-4-2, 4-3-3…), holding offensive (small team combination, accumulating wings – hold front offensive…) holding defensive (majority defensive, pair marking …) changing players, strategies during the match influence directly the winning or losing the game.
If the choice is right, even you have no famous players, you still have the chance to win. And if it is a wrong decision, even Real Madrid cannot help you win Getafe.
Another advantage in Football Manager Classic 2015 is that you can completely use the old strategy that you have done much research on Football Manager 2015 PC version. It saves time for player who have played both version
Interface is a little bit confusing
Despite of being made with promises of Sports Interactive, Football Manager Classic 2015 still has some limitation which is not being quite friendly with touch screen, especially when scrolling page with annoying drifting experience.
Moreover, browser-like interface on PC is brought into mobile, tablet version working not well as simplification is stressed. For example, it is hard to get how “this” button can do as menu system completely contains very small icons without explanation. You should spend 15-20 minutes on getting used to and remember the positions if you want to play the game with the best experience
Not fully licensed
Compared to the competitor FIFA Manager from EA, Football Manager in general and Football Manager Classic2015 in specific are still at disadvantage as not completely possess full licensed images of football players and teams around the world (especially German team). Fortunately personal information and indices in Football Manager Classic2015 are more accurate than Pro Evolution Soccer of KONAMI.
To deal with this, gaming community of Football Manager has the solution to change those images yet the size of the Football Manager Classic 2015 will increase dramatically and it is not suggested to follow the way.
SUGGESTION
- Adjust the game to play more smoothly
- Renew interface, remove some unnecessary things
- Divide league into smaller DLC to reduce the size of the game
- Lower duration of adverts intro
- 3GB free storage is required to play the game
- Close all running apps and internet connection to save battery life
Slow performance – highly battery consuming
It seems that Football Manager Classic 2015 could not lose the specific weakness of Football Manager. That is the time of loading is too long because of big size of data and performance of tablet is far different from PC.
Sliding over different interfaces and preparing for a match spend too much time, interrupting playing experience and it is quite annoying. This is the reason that consume battery and contain too much heat from the device. I did slide from manual scene and introduction and spend 4% percent battery. 5% is the cost when you want to enjoy a match by yourself (having skipped the changing players).
With those problems, it only allows you to play continuously 5-6 matches with spending half level of battery, not counting on other background programs. Therefore, it is about two times for playing Football Manager Classic 2015 daily and you have to keep charging, quite irritating!
One more limitation of this game is the huge memory using (about 2,5BG) therefore, it should be left with at least 3GB free storage.
