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Was announced yesterday. Over 800 new features being added to the game for this season, some revealed yesterday, others to come.

 

The best feature I've seen is that you can change your playable leagues while playing the game.

 

Football Manager 2012 Announced!

 

LONDON (August 11th, 2011) – Sports Interactive Ltd. & SEGA® Europe Ltd. today unveiled the latest version of their successful football management simulation series, Football Manager™ 2012. Planned to be in stores before Christmas, Football Manager 2012 will once again allow you to take charge of your favourite football team and put your managerial skills to the test.

 

The award-winning Football Manager series has now sold in excess of 7 million copies worldwide and has topped the UK and many European PC charts for the last seven years, with over 108 weeks at no.1 in the UK to date.

 

“We’re delighted to finally be able to start talking about Football Manager 2012” said Miles Jacobson, Studio Director at Sports Interactive. “It’s another year of evolution, with some revolution thrown in for good measure so we’re pretty sure our dedicated communities, and hopefully lots of new people too, get to play and enjoy the game when it’s released later in the year.”

 

Counting over 800 new features, not including changes to the rules of the games 50+ leagues, Football Manager 2012 promises to be the most realistic, immersive and playable football management simulation ever for any fan who has ever dreamed of making the big decisions, both on and off the field.

 

 

Key new & improved features for Football Manager 2012:

 

Transfers & Contracts – significant changes to the transfer and contract systems, including loyalty bonuses, better implementation of amateur and youth contracts, an improved transfer centre and the ability to lock areas of the contract negotiation when you aren't prepared to budge. This helps you to manage your budgets and gives you flexibility in what you offer money hungry players, or agents, as incentives.

 

Scouting improvements – using several real life scouting reports, a new in-game report has been devised which includes squad analysis, tactics information and information about goals scored and conceded alongside lots of other scouting improvements, giving you all the information you need to prepare before kick-off and throughout the season.

 

3D Match Improvements – new animations, a whole new crowd system, improved weather system, more stadiums, plus two brand new cameras - "Behind Goal" and "Director Cam" as well as all other camera angles being reversible - meaning you can watch and analyse every aspect of every game.

 

Manage Anywhere, Anytime – the ability to add or take away playable nations in your saved game as often as you want. Manage in that country at the start of the next season- meaning you don’t have to stay in the nations which are chosen by you to be playable at the start of your career.

 

Tone – a whole new level has been added to team talks and conversations, with the new tone system, which allows you to specify the way you want to say things – be as cool as a cucumber by saying things calmly or throw tea cups around by saying things with passion. There are 6 different tones to choose from with specific comments per tone.

 

Intelligent Interface – a new adaptive layout system, which means the higher your screen resolution, the more info is easily at your fingertips. The new interface also contains new filters, customisable columns, a new tactics screen, and lots of new overview screens.

 

Brand New Tutorial – standing separate from the main game, a mode to help new players find their way around the game easily, whilst also offering tips to experienced managers on how to get the most out of the game, as well as a new in-game “how to” system.

 

On top of these key innovations, there are lots of areas of the game that have had huge improvements, such as the media system, press conferences, the youth system, newgens, the social networking options, friendlies, international management and many more which will be detailed in a series of video blogs over the coming months, alongside more information about Football Manager 2012.

 

 

Get a sneak peak at the new game:

 

Screenshots:

 

Football Managerâ„¢ 2012

 

You can also find all the screenshots from every territory on our facebook page: Albums by Football Manager | Facebook

 

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On initially skimming through that, I can't help but feel the "tone" feature will be a load of bollocks. I hate the team talks and media shite but obviously I am into the rest of it.

 

Being able to add and remove leagues will be awesome for me with the journeyman games as it will hopefully keep the game size more manageable and keep the speed up, my big journeyman game was clocking on for 1gig I think by the time I got about 30 seasons in and then just ended up unplayable.

 

To be honest I wish they would just spend a couple of years fine tuning what we have now and improving the way it processes to get the speed up than keep on adding new features which always seem to take ages to work properly. I'm sick of answering the same questions time after time in press conferences hence I just send my assistant all the time.

 

An option for "no press conferences" would be ace as it also gets frustrating when the assistant is spouting shit and upsetting players.

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I'll check out the demo, but unless it blows my socks off, I very much doubt I'll be getting this, or any future releases for that matter.

 

Pretty much my view at the moment.

 

I think the only thing liable to make me desperately want to jump is if alongside the ability to add and remove leagues it will keep the saved games down to a sensible size.

 

Mind you I said the same last year and then ended up buying the bloody thing.

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I tweeted Miles Jacobson who created the FM/CM series about Hillsborough and the e-petition. Not only did he retweet it but he contacted me to say he hopes justice is done. We then had a conversation for an hour or so about it all. Thoroughly nice chap.

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I'm still playing fm 2008, I've tried moving on to later versions but it's too involved now and takes too much time with all the match day experience bollocks.

 

Probably still end up buying this playing it for a week and going back to 08

 

I agree to a certain extent. I wouldn't mind being able to turn off certain features. Basically all I ever do is buy and sell players and pick the team. They should offer two versions, standard and advanced for people like woo who understand all the pre match bollocks.

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I tweeted Miles Jacobson who created the FM/CM series about Hillsborough and the e-petition. Not only did he retweet it but he contacted me to say he hopes justice is done. We then had a conversation for an hour or so about it all. Thoroughly nice chap.

 

He is very down to earth. I shared a box with him a few years back and we spent a lot of time talking about FM. He talked a lot about the debt that clubs were accruing and seemed particularly concerned about Liverpool. He was also pushing that the handheld version was the best game to play whilst having a dump.

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He is very down to earth. I shared a box with him a few years back and we spent a lot of time talking about FM. He talked a lot about the debt that clubs were accruing and seemed particularly concerned about Liverpool. He was also pushing that the handheld version was the best game to play whilst having a dump.

 

Yeah Miles is a lovely fella, he got me the job doing the LFC research back in 1996 when he was only just getting involved. I think all he did in those days was data updates but due to being a bit of an entrepeneur he worked his way to be their MD.

 

Used to get me tickets too when we played down at Watford too

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Don't think it has been decided, they wait until the testing is further down the line before releasing it. Ive seen the beta and it looks good

 

Is the Beta being tested in house again, or are they going back to what they used to do, and actually recruiting impartial testers from the community?

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Football/Champ Manager is shit.

 

I'd have more respect for the developers if they just said that they'd updated the teams and nothing else as any other changes would be pointless profiteering.

 

This shit is as much responsible for the modern "fan" posting formations and debating the need for a new DM or LB and I sir for one will not be buying it.

 

You're not a Football Manager, you're nobody.

 

Harrumph.

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Football/Champ Manager is shit.

 

I'd have more respect for the developers if they just said that they'd updated the teams and nothing else as any other changes would be pointless profiteering.

 

This shit is as much responsible for the modern "fan" posting formations and debating the need for a new DM or LB and I sir for one will not be buying it.

 

You're not a Football Manager, you're nobody.

 

Harrumph.

 

How many points did you miss out on the title by?

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96/97 was ace. 5 boxes were your options "player is not for sale at any price" Tommy Svindel Larson and Tonton Zola Moukoko, Maxim Tsigalko, when a world class player ie Rivaldo retired there would instantly be a 16 yo in Brazil with identical stats and no work permit issues. You could do a season in about 2 hours by hammering the space bar. No media bullshit, no staff if I remember correctly. Just drag the arrows on the tactics screen and let her rip

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96/97 was ace. 5 boxes were your options "player is not for sale at any price" Tommy Svindel Larson and Tonton Zola Moukoko, Maxim Tsigalko, when a world class player ie Rivaldo retired there would instantly be a 16 yo in Brazil with identical stats and no work permit issues. You could do a season in about 2 hours by hammering the space bar. No media bullshit, no staff if I remember correctly. Just drag the arrows on the tactics screen and let her rip

 

Pssst Moukoko didn't turn up till 00-01.

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