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Championship Manager 08 (PC CD) | 
 enlarge | From: Eidos
Category: Video Games
Buy New: £63.37
Rating:  8 reviews
Platform: Windows Xp
Genre: soccer-games
Media: Video Game
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 5021290032026
EAN: 5021290032026
ASIN: B000VJ00S2
Release Date: November 2, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | - Can you become the next 'Chosen One' ?- The latest transfers & manager changes!- Alter tactics from the touchline !- Many varying leagues and challenges !- Take your team to European glory ! |
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Product Description
- Can you become the next 'Chosen One' ?- The latest transfers & manager changes!- Alter tactics from the touchline !- Many varying leagues and challenges !- Take your team to European glory !
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| Customer Reviews:
 Quality November 1, 2007
Red 4ever (Ireland)
21 out of 29 found this review helpful
Excellent game, right up to its usual standard!!! Been playing the demo for the past 3 weeks and now i need the real thing!! The only drawback being, where you have the facility to talk to an unhappy player, there isn't the option to reassure the player that they were rested rather than dropped.
 Football Manager? My **** January 4, 2008
Will Lawson (Didcot, England)
13 out of 26 found this review helpful
This game is far superior to Football Manager 2008-I have both, so there is no bias at all. It is superior in every single aspect and I cannot believe that FM 08 is constantly being touted as the best option. It is ridiculous.
Great! November 23, 2007
J. Laing (Sunderland, UK)
10 out of 14 found this review helpful
I really like this game, its much better than 2007! the layout is much better, the game is so simple to navigate around, the transfers are more realistic. But the only thing is...its not a major thing, but if you try to buy a superstar player like Ronaldinho it will say he is worth 36 million, but it will cost you something like 60 million to actually buy him! But over all this game is very very good and for the price you cant go wrong! The match day layout is better, the tactics are great and prozone is much much better! the indepth info you get from it is really good. For example it will tell you how the goal was set-up and everything! But overall this game is very addictive and is very good!
 It hit's the post! March 25, 2008
J. W. Barnes (Portsmout, Uk)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I have now completed a good few seasons on CM 08, using different teams in different leagues. The good thing about this, is the amount of research that has been done, the variety of leagues that can be played, and the number of different nations you can pick to take part in...I think there is 24 nations for which you can play the leagues in...a thumbs up from that point of view.
However, the matchday format is poor....adding the "matchday highlights" was a poor decision, since they have not really mastered what a realistic game would look like using this. What I find extremely frustrating with this game is the unrealistic nature of how the goals are always scored...Now, not meaning to sound bitter, but despite my vigorous (and depressingly laborious) attempts to keep a solid defensive strategy from set-peices, every fooking time the opposition got a corner, they scored almost every time...now I had a few of the best defenders within my league playing for me, witgh some of the best trainers...and still, they would constantly make stupid mistakes, like putting a perfect direct-ball through to the oppositions strikerm who would invariably score....now, I hear you scream "well you're doing something wrong within the training schedule!" well, actually, the training options that are available are extremely basic and poor.....adding to my frustrations and lack of control of my players development.
I think that Eidos had tried to bite off way more than they could chew with this game...talking to the players never offered any options that I would actually like to say to them...the half-time team-talk options were never realistic nor in-parallel with what I would have liked to said to my players, the matchday video replays and the way in which players actually played was a joke...and the "pro-zone" was entirely ridiculous and a waste of time.
If they are to introduce these new features in future, please try to make a good go of them, instead of hashing them up, and creating numerous poor, useless features, that in fact detract from the game.
Also, quite a few glitches that I had noticed...one being that in the conference south english league, after every season, it appeared that instead of relegating the nominal 3 teams, it would actually relegate the 3 bottom teams, plus an additional 2 random teams, and promote 5 new "minor teams"....I would have been a little annoyed had that been me.
On the whole-
Good points:
Excellent research
A massive data base of players and teams that you can control
Good general team format and game interface
A little bit quicker than previous versions, I have noticed
Bad points:
Matchday highlights and in-game unrealistic
Talking to players and team-talk poor
Poor Training options
Laborious tactical options
Pro-zone a joke
My conclusion? Play world of warcraft until the next version comes out.
 But Football Manager 2008 December 19, 2007
K. R. Carr
3 out of 16 found this review helpful
If you want a football manager simulator - get a decent game like Football Manager 2008 - which is the game Championship Manager could have been.
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