Football Manager Handheld (PSP)

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For a start, the look and feel is completely different, with a modern touch interface sporting big, bold iPhone-friendly buttons, and an intuitive drag-and-drop system that makes tactical changes and transfer hunting a cinch. Not so welcome are the presence of the now obligatory (anti) social options, allowing you to bug your friends by spamming their Twitter or Facebook feeds with news of your progress. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. I'm the biggest fan of football manager on the PC, I can easily spend hours and hours at a time on it. SI have over 80 employees and I would say at least 60 of them are for FM and the other 20 are FMH (though 18 would be QA as only 2 code).

Good game, I've been playing FM 2010 until this came out and the only differences are the teams are updated as the end of the August 11 transfer window and a few tweaks in the interaction, but everything else is the same. For the purposes of handheld play, these snack-sized portions of managerial meddling work brilliantly, and help negate the tedious faffing that often goes with getting a game up and running. btw just to clarify a few things - the main issues with adding new features to the PSP version of the game involved processing power (the PSP is heavily biased towards graphical performance not data processing) and the save game size (the PSP has a (relatively) small maximum save game allowed whereas other mobile devices don't cap such things - we do what we can to work around this using compression but it obviously limits what we can do in some ways). Like I said, there is nobody who likes Football Manager more than me on the PC, but this one just doesn't do it for me.Sports Interactive have modified their genre defining football management game to purposely suit the PSP. Obviously the vast layers of depth has been stripped down and refined for the purposes of intuitive, on the move play, leaving what has been compared to a CM3-style experience - a decision many long-term fans that hunger for the old-style simplicity will appreciate.

This constant ego-massaging has turned FM into as much of a mind-game as a matter of putting more balls in the net than the opposition - but, crucially, it does add a welcome splash of RPG colour to what would otherwise be a simple team sheet preparation exercise. A small reduction in the number of stats, the removal of superfluous graphics like club badges, and the super-sharp quality of the widescreen PSP display makes it possible to still cram in tons of detailed information with very little in the way of compromise.

A control legend at the bottom of the screen gives players four context-sensitive shortcut options at any one time, making it straightforward to select specific actions quickly and easily.

If you need all the trimmings, then by all means surrender yourself to the all-consuming PC/Mac version. Not exactly ideal for the fans but there isn't anything they can do as for the "poor sales on PSP" well that is why they released a repackaged version as there was good sales and the PSP console is losing its audience anyway so the sales would have gone down from when it hit its peak in 2007-2009. Also like I said I have seen the ps vita version and I will be picking it up, but that does not excuse what they done on the psp. The match engine reverts back to Championship Manager of a few years ago with text updates during the match as opposed to the 2D view but sadly there are no crowd noises and therefore no atmosphere whatsoever.is unbelievably good value for a near-perfect refinement of what many of us want from a football management game. Now I don't know you or your history in the games industry or any business in general really but it seems like it is funded on the wrong premises. There's no waiting around - matches play out quickly," he asserts, as results similarly trickle through at an impressive pace, leaving players able to swiftly get on with their own affairs. The game also includes a full career mode, giving players the chance to take their team all the way to the top. I have got an xbox but started getting bored of lma manager and decided to get a manager game for psp.