Review by YOR on 09 Mar 2019 (Rating: 1)
The third game in the Football Manager series, well it's more a spinoff game to tie-in with World Cup, and for this there's another overhaul and not a good one. Of course you now have international teams for the World Cup, but the players are non-existent, they are just Player 00, Player 01, Player 02 etc. You can edit them but changing 21 players is quite the hassle. Then there's the Brian Rogers and Paul Yates Results service, which all feels weird, especially since Brian Rogers was the man behind Bedrock Software who developed this game. Interesting photo as well for them it has to be said. The player selection screen is also changed and not in a good way either. You can change position, action and passing style and I can't be bothered with that. And before the game I was greeted by Brian and Paul again who asked “Just one question” which I could answer with either “The lads done great” or “Ask me after the game”, how exactly can the lads have done great the game hasn't even started yet! You also get to discuss tactics with your players, or rather another photo of some players and looking suspiciously older than 1990 it has to be said. And now it's time for the match itself and holy fuck, holy fuck, hoooly fuck, the match screen is horrific. The players are larger but it's slow, it flickers constantly, it looks really ugly and actually looks like it's taken from one of those crappy handheld LCD games. There is also no sound at all and there's actually no way of knowing which team is which, and more importantly who you are supposed to be unless a goal is scored. This, and the whole game in fact, is 50 steps backwards from FM2. And nobody reviewed this game yet until mine, that is why, because it's an abomination.
