In case you missed it, there’s something new and exciting available through Steam!
No, not all those Atari games, including 80 arcade and home classics like Asteroids and Adventure for less than $20.
It’s Worldwide Soccer Manager 2008!
That’s right! Now you can join the excitement of not playing soccer but managing it through a series of spreadsheets and windows! Just check out these screenshots! Wow! Holy shit, is that a calender? And they said simulated wage budget increases would never come to the PC!
Worldwide Soccer Manager 2008: Don’t Catch the Excitement — Manage It!
16 responses so far ↓
1 Anonymoose // Mar 13, 2008 at 11:14 pm
FUCK EUROPE
2 Lemonpieman // Mar 13, 2008 at 11:42 pm
Ohmygosh a CALENDER!!!!!
3 Joerdgs // Mar 13, 2008 at 11:49 pm
Hahaha, yeah, the whole idea of soccer managing kind of sucks. But apparently the fans love them :)
4 Tom // Mar 13, 2008 at 11:55 pm
Granted that Soccer Manager really does suck, but Steam gets Indigo Prophecy man!
5 Tom // Mar 13, 2008 at 11:56 pm
Well I don’t… yet.
Stupid Australia.
6 Man Raised By Puffins // Mar 14, 2008 at 2:04 am
Yeah, Football Manager gets widely derided as a spreadsheet over here too. It sells by truckload though, and has done for the last 10 years or so. I doubt the Steam version will sell though as, like Call of Duty 4, it’s twice the price of retail.
7 Pentadact // Mar 14, 2008 at 2:12 am
Football Manager, as it’s called over here, was the best-selling game of last year in the UK, thrashing World of Warcraft, Burning Crusade and all the Sims 2 expansions. It’s like a disease in my country.
For an article I’m writing next week, I’ve got to explain why I know I would hate it if I played it, then force myself to play it, then say what I thought of it. Pity me.
8 Pentadact // Mar 14, 2008 at 2:13 am
Ahem, best-selling PC game.
9 Crane // Mar 14, 2008 at 2:16 am
Ye GODS, what a terrible sight…
And to think, if I killed the people who made this, and played it, *I* would go to jail!
10 Driginalz // Mar 14, 2008 at 7:14 am
ZOMGF, I’m gonna order that haxx0r of a game right away!
11 Rodafowa // Mar 16, 2008 at 3:13 am
Much as I hate to swim against the tide, here but honestly, FM is great. I can’t totally explain it, but there’s something about being one level removed from the action that really ratchets up the tension. When the bunch of no-hopers that you’ve cobbled together on free transfers gets a goal it’s a real rush. Seriously. If you let yourself you can really get emotionally invested in it, it’s like watching your favourite team play several times an hour, with all the attendent highs and lows that go with it.
Obviously you’re not going to get a lot out of it if you don’t like football, but if you don’t like football why on Earth would you be buying a football management game?
Personally, I think the latest versions have become a bit overcomplicated in their pursuit of “realism”. I liked it a lot more before it had the 2D match engine, when the only thing you had to tell you what was going on in games was a radio-style text commentary. Your milage may, of course, vary, but is FM really any more spoddy and laughable than, say, Sim City or Railroad Tycoon?
12 chris12 // Mar 16, 2008 at 12:49 pm
i dont like football. but managing a group, is fun, i guess
13 Dave // Mar 16, 2008 at 4:00 pm
That reminded me so much of Vision of the Future.
14 Dr Barry // Mar 17, 2008 at 3:17 pm
It’s a horrendously addictive game, one of those ones where you sit down to play a match or two and then realise it’s nineteen hours later and you’ve forgotten to eat, sleep or blink.
It’s sells well for three reasons:
1) It sells to football fans who don’t play games
2) It sells to games players who don’t like football
3) It’s actually really good, honest.
15 Pentadact // Mar 18, 2008 at 12:39 pm
I’m not sold on point 2, Dr Barry. I’m a gamer who doesn’t like football, and forced myself to play it for a few hours today. Even when you’re patient and use the Help screen a lot, it’s pretty baffling when you know nothing about the sport or the business behind it.
Translation: I really sucked.
16 Dr Barry // Mar 19, 2008 at 11:52 am
I didn’t say it was especially inviting to non-football fans, just that I knew some who played it (and presume there are more) to be honest it’s never been incredibly user friendly, despite their best efforts to improve it. Just imagine how baffling the versions where you never actually saw the match were.
Anyway, there’s a lot of good advice at this here forum: http://www.thedugout.tv. To be honest I was flailing in the dark as much as you until I discovered it.
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