
You do basics like pick the team, pick tactics and buy/sell players as you would expect, but you also get involved with aspects of football such as scouting, setting training schedules, youth team development, dealing with players, team talks, contract negotiations, dealing with the board, I could go on! It is an incredibly deep simulation of what it might be like to be the gaffer of any of the 5,000 teams in the game. You play as a football manager who does anything and everything you could imagine a football manager to do. If you are not familiar with FM, it really is what it says on the tin. The 2008 iteration was the fourth entry under the FM name. The real best football game is Football Manager.įootball Manager (FM) is a long running football management series (it even used to be under the name of Championship Manager) from Sports Interactive, helmed by studio director and Watford fan Miles Jacobson OBE. These were arguments I would often get involved with, but then as I became a teenager with access for the first time to a decent PC, the answer became obvious to me… and it was neither. Growing up as a fan of football and video games, the argument was always which was the better football game, FIFA or Pro Evolution Soccer. You can find Kurt on twitter as and on the podcast he co-hosts, Football Manager 2008 (Sports Interactive/Sega, PC, 2007)

[ For this guest post, I am once again joined by Kurt Lewin, who previously wrote about Gran Turismo 4.
