Football Manager 2010 release date is October 30th, 2009 on PC, Mac and PSP
Football Manager 2010 has received a European release date of October 30th, 2009 on PC, Mac and PSP announced Sega. The PSP version is entitled “Football Manager Handheld 2010″. The game has yet to be announced for any other territory.
Sega’s popular Soccer series is one of the biggest sellers in Europe, with last year’s entry spending 22 weeks on top of the PC charts and selling over 1 million copies.
This year’s game will bring a number of new features and improvements over last year’s game including a new user interface, a graphically improved 3D Match View, a Tactics Creator and more.
The introduction of a Tactics Creator makes it easier to instruct the team to play the way the manager wants, alongside the introduction of touchline ‘shouts’ and quick tactic changes for instantly altering your team’s playing style during the match. Working with coaches from various levels of football, alongside some of the Football Manager communities most respected independent tacticians, the game now has an extensive array of pre-set tactical options allowing the user to select a player’s role in the team (such as ‘Ball winning midfielder’ or ‘Deep lying playmaker’), however the option to use the old ‘slider’ controls remains.
Feedback from matches has been improved to give the user better insight into where their team is going wrong, or right. A new Match Analysis tool lets players see where shots, passes, crosses, headers, tackles, fouls and interceptions have been made on the field for all players on the pitch. Managers can view this analysis both live in-game and post match, allowing them to pinpoint the strengths and weaknesses of both their team and their opponent’s and adjust their tactics accordingly.
Football Manager 2010 features a brand new User Interface, with a light and a dark skin to choose from as part of a vibrant new look and has undergone a complete navigational overhaul. The side bar navigation of previous years has been replaced by an intuitive tab system at the top of the screen, making Football Manager’s famed depth easier to navigate and will make the game more accessible to new players.
A brand new Data Editor will allow the addition of new divisions to existing leagues and of entirely new leagues as well as making it easier than ever to keep the game up to date, and do so for free. The delivery of information to the manager has been refined with users now able to sign up to the News Center, an in-game subscription based newspaper that lets you get the news that you want about the football world and filter out the stories that you do not need, making the football world as immersive as you want it to be.
Following the debut of a 3D match view in Football Manager 2009, this year’s release sees a revamp with improved AI, over 100 new animations for the 3D pitch view, new stadiums, crowds, realistic pitch degradation and better lighting, creating an even more realistic match experience.
“We have worked very hard with the Football Manager community to target not only the areas of the game that needed re-working but also what we could add to improve what’s already there,” said Sports Interactive studio director Miles Jacobson. “We’ve also conducted extensive usability studies which has led us to overhaul the whole presentation of the game, which we’re really excited about.There has been a lot of polish to existing areas of the game but it’s also driven us to introduce changes to answer some of the feedback. We’re very confident that having done that we will deliver the very best Football Manager to date in October.”
14 August 2009 03:51mcjakeqcool
What makes Sony so lucky?! Well at least the PC is property of Microsoft. mcjakeqcool
Nice article.I love Football Manager 2010.I have bought this from Amazon.And enjoying it…
