Football Manager 2012

[Wolfe]

Improvements scheduled:

Transfers & Contracts – significant changes to the transfer and contract systems, including loyalty bonuses, better implementation of amateur and youth contracts, an improved transfer centre and the ability to lock areas of the contract negotiation when you aren't prepared to budge. This helps you to manage your budgets and gives you flexibility in what you offer money hungry players, or agents, as incentives.

Scouting improvements – using several real life scouting reports, a new in-game report has been devised which includes squad analysis, tactics information and information about goals scored and conceded alongside lots of other scouting improvements, giving you all the information you need to prepare before kick-off and throughout the season.

3D Match Improvements – new animations, a whole new crowd system, improved weather system, more stadiums, plus two brand new cameras - "Behind Goal" and "Director Cam" as well as all other camera angles being reversible – meaning you can watch and analyse every aspect of every game.

Manage Anywhere, Anytime – the ability to add or take away playable nations in your saved game as often as you want. Manage in that country at the start of the next season- meaning you don’t have to stay in the nations which are chosen by you to be playable at the start of your career.

Tone – a whole new level has been added to team talks and conversations, with the new tone system, which allows you to specify the way you want to say things – be as cool as a cucumber by saying things calmly or throw tea cups around by saying things with passion. There are 6 different tones to choose from with specific comments per tone.

Intelligent Interface – a new adaptive layout system, which means the higher your screen resolution, the more info is easily at your fingertips. The new interface also contains new filters, customisable columns, a new tactics screen, and lots of new overview screens.

Brand New Tutorial – standing separate from the main game, a mode to help new players find their way around the game easily, whilst also offering tips to experienced managers on how to get the most out of the game, as well as a new in-game “how to” system.

On top of these key innovations, there are lots of areas of the game that have had huge improvements, such as the media system, press conferences, the youth system, newgens, the social networking options, friendlies, international management and many more which will be detailed in a series of video blogs over the coming months, alongside more information about Football Manager 2012.

The demo of the game can be downloaded from here as it has just been released: http://store.steampowered.com/app/901788/ or you can just type steam://install/71280 into your browser URL bar. You will be able to play through the first half of the 2011/2012 season and you will be able to continue your saved game if you wish to purchase the game later on.

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From the first reviews I've read that this new interface is terrific. Can't wait to check this out. This is probably the primary game I'm going to be getting this year (above all the Uncharteds, Assassins and other typical console games).

Also, from what I've read there is only two players found so far with prospect ranking of 10 (maximum) in the whole game. One of them plays for Real Madrid, the other for Arsenal

[kadeng]

turkish league avalaible?!!

pls say yes!

[Wolfe]

Not in the demo, no. Demo only offers the following:

Australia, Belgium, Denmark, England, France, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Scotland, Spain and Sweden.

[kadeng]

australia? wow...
is there any information about the league list on the fullversion?

[Wolfe]

I think Turkish league is available. I mean on wikipedia it is listed as a playable league for Football Manager 2011 of the Rest Of Europe so it should be available for 2012..

[Azzido Da Bass]

Thanks for posting Wolfe, just downloading it now how you guys finding it? FM11 overheated my laptop and it kept turning itself off which was so irritating i had to save it after every game

[Deco 20]

Also, from what I've read there is only two players found so far with prospect ranking of 10 (maximum) in the whole game. One of them plays for Real Madrid, the other for Arsenal

If it's Ramsey for Arsenal... then... I... don't know what to say. Wilshere... possibly, but he should have a set PA by now.

Jesé for RM? Or Zidane? In either case, very strange!

[Azzido Da Bass]

finally the scout report comes back with the players best suited role, that makes life alot easier

[T.I.]

Sadly it doesnt allow me to download it.

[Aryagorn]

I couldn't get this one, so I installed FM2011 DEMO on my laptop... Bloody hell, it crashes almost every time a match starts. It is driving me crazy. And it's not even the latest version that I am trying to play


Dell XPS 15 it is... Think many are facing this problem. Or is it may be, hopefully, because that I have installed latest version of DirectX instead of the one that is provided along with the FM installer?

[Silva Lining]

Don't know if I should buy this or not... Will surely have a detrimental affect on my social and work life.

[Bergkamp10]

Don't know if I should buy this or not... Will surely have a detrimental affect on my social and work life.

My exact reasoning as well for not buying it Made a decision that I'd only buy one of FIFA or Football Manager, chose FIFA and so far its the right decision.

Also looked on a FM forum and the likes of Neymar, Hazard, Wilshere, Gotze, Thiago have ridiculously low PA's which really pissed me off. Means I'll have to wait for super regens again which I didn't have much luck with in FM 11.

[Fourteen]

Got it yesterday and installed it, but only got as far as the opening messages of taking over Valencia before I thought "Okay Jordan, it's 3am almost, you want to get up and watch the Rugby, so turn the fucking laptop off" too which I oblidged.

First impressions are good. Since I didn't play 2011 and only a little bit of 2010, it feels fresh and the layout is nice. Going to take some getting use to, with all the additions on top of the cramed detail they've built on.

[FiReFTW]

I tried the demo and its shit, same as last year with some visual improvements but all the bugs and issues remain, some are even worse.

[Corb]

I tried the demo and its shit, same as last year with some visual improvements but all the bugs and issues remain, some are even worse.

Which bugs?