Soon you’ll have traded a couple of players, promoted a couple of young future stars, and it very much feels like you’ve put your managerial stamp on proceedings. Teams are initially accurate to this point of time in the real-world competitions, but that won’t last long. You can develop training routines for each player, keep an eye on the youth leagues for new talent and, of course trade players in order to meet your budgets and deepen the skill pool of your team. You only watch the matches in Football Manager, and the only game day control you have is what substitutions to make, but make no mistake about it, when a player slips a strike past the opponent’s goalie, that’s all your success. You’ll carefully build detailed strategies for the team on-field, to try and maximise the strengths of each player, and when they succeed, you’ll be cheering right along with them. Instead, you’ll find yourself pouring over the dozens of statistics that comprise each player on the team, looking for ways to maximise the overall performance on the field.
In Football Manager it’s not actually a “game over”, since you can sign up to manage a different team, but it is brutal.īecause it feels like it all matters so much, the initially dry presentation of Football Manager soon fades into the background. And if you find yourself sacked from your favourite team… well, there’s no “game over” screen that could possibly be worse than that. Because these teams are accurate representations of real-world football teams, and you’re naturally going to choose your favourite team to manage (Crystal Palace all the way), every match is going to matter. The reason that they’re so emotionally engaging is because, in taking total ownership over a team, its rises and falls in fortune are entirely on you. Without a single line of conventional “storytelling” or “dialogue”, these games have a habit of making players deeply emotionally attached to what’s going on, and Football Manager 2019 Touch is no different in that regard.
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And yet, the Football Manager series endures on in popularity because the big, dirty secret about it, and other management titles like it, is that these games, for all their presentation, are also the best examples of emergent narrative that I can think of.
On a fundamental level, it seems so silly that there would be this sports game franchise which doesn’t involve any on-field sports action. If spreadsheets had a smell, they’d smell like them too. Football Manager games look like spreadsheets.
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