Football Manager 2019 - (PC) Steam EUROPE Digital Key
Football Manager 2019 for PC is the latest in the game series that begin life
back in 2004 as Championship Manager. The premise of the game is a simple one:
to train a football team to win matches and earn the praise and commendation of
your chairman and board of directors.
ABOUT THE GAME
Your team can be entirely fictional, or you can choose any of a wide number of
real players who have been digitised and uploaded into the game, with their
talent markers, stamina, and fitness levels and so on all ready and waiting for
you.
This means that you could play the game in a very realistic way, like fantasy
football – choosing your ideal team, setting targets for them that might be
achievable in real life, and earning a big pay day should all your plans and
training come to fruition.
You can also play fast and loose with the rules of football and football
management – but the chairman and the board will be watching your every move, so
to speak. Any failure results in you being summoned to explain why the team lost
their game, and you might have a tricky time of it unless you can explain your
case convincingly!
The chairman and the board are essentially the computer: AI manifestations that
analyse every move you make: and hold you responsible should your plans not work
out properly! But management grumbles aside, training your team and coming up
with tactics for them to try out is exciting and very fulfilling when it comes
off.
NEW DETAILS
For the first time, this incarnation of the game features a woman manager, with
the addition of Emma Hayes as a character. Hayes is the real-life manager of
Chelsea F. C. Women’s team.
VAR. The Video Assistant Referee has relatively recently been introduced into
championship games and this version of the game has embraced it. It can be
frustrating as goal declared by the ref can be overruled by VAR – but it does go
both ways and you can sometimes benefit from the feature.
There is an autofill feature that completes your best-suited team once you have
painstakingly worked out your strategy. This is a very useful feature that
prevents any silly mistakes from costing you the chance of the championship, and
perhaps even your job!
You can micromanage players at every stage during the game, whether they are in
possession, passing or intercepting, or waiting for the ball to come their way.
This gives you much tighter control over what happens during the game, and ramps
up the excitement as you have to keep a cool head and monitor what all the
players – and the ball, come to that! – are doing.
WAYS TO PLAY
Tactics
Work out how best to deploy which players, based on their opposite numbers and
using the many useful reports and analyses made available by the AI.
Sometimes playing younger, hungrier but untested players can benefit you more
than clinging to your aging squad for sentimental reasons, for example.
Training
Keep your players’ fitness levels at optimum by arranging and enforcing training
sessions. However, do be careful about over training the team – while levels of
fitness, stamina and strength might go up, so too will injury and exhaustion!
Play Games
Take your team through the rankings, playing in real championships and
tournaments – that is to say, games based on real competitions, played in
stadiums and on fields based on the real-life venues for those tournaments.
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