For a handheld game the depth really is something and sets up the player for hours upon of hours of armchair management fun. If you want to move a player up from the reserves, change a training regime, scout for a new player, switch up your youth team, offer a player a new contract, or implement a new style of play for the entire team or a certain player, you name it, you can do it. Every aspect of team and indeed club management is available to the player through a series of basic looking but fairly intuitive touch based menu screens. As you progress, the full depth of the simulation reveals itself and whilst not possessing as much depth as its PC-based counterparts this new touch version is no slouch. Starting up the game and choosing your team is simple enough, options for multiple leagues are present but it is wise to stick to the one to avoid excessive load times which can really bog down the experience. A scaled-back version, naturally, of the much loved PC title, giving wannabe managers across the country the ability to lead their favourite team on a train, bus, park bench, well anywhere really - taking advantage of the Switch’s reasonable horsepower and its touch screen - this could potentially be a match made in heaven. Step up to the plate the Nintendo Switch a handheld console with enough juice to run Zelda or Mario would seem like a perfect fit for your average football fan who doesn’t enjoy an evening in front of a computer.įootball Manager Touch 2018 landed on the Nintendo Switch with literally zero hype as a result of a surprise launch, coming just hours after the publisher announced it was coming to the platform. This evolution of handheld tech and the associated increase in processing power and memory has seen the title launch successfully in its mobile guise on both iOS and Android devices. This was of course before our mobile devices reached the point where they were more powerful than the majority of PCs which were used to play the title from 1992-2010 and beyond. What hasn’t changed in this time is that the franchise is the definitive football management game the world over - detailed and complex, packed full of every conceivable statistic, Football Manager is gaming crack to a diehard football fan, its sales popularity only limited by the need to play the game on a decent PC, with two failed Xbox 360 console outings condemning it seemingly to the PC crowd. For those who’ve been following the evolution of Sports Interactive’s unparalleled football management simulator will have been involved way back when it was called Championship Manager, published by Eidos through the 90s right up until 2005 when they made the switch to Sega and the game had a slight makeover as well as a name change. Anyone familiar with the Football Manager franchise is all too aware of the addictiveness that it can wield on innocent football fans across the UK and beyond.
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