Football Manager 2010 Gold Demo Available, Post Impressions Here

[mdbussen]

Sigames have just released the Football Manager 2010 gold demo. Please post your impressions here.

Quote:

"We are absolutely thrilled to announce the immediate availability of the FM 2010 Gold Demo. That’s right; it’s here, earlier than expected! All of us here at SI believe that FM 2010 is our best game yet, but we know that you will be the judge of that and welcome your feedback. So let us know what you think of it on these forums. We have always worked closely with the community to help us shape Football Manager, but I’d like to take the opportunity on behalf of everybody at SI to thank all those involved in the beta testing programme and to all of you for continuing to support us. Over the past 12 months we’ve taken some risks by changing the way we work in an attempt to deliver you better games from the get go. We think we’ve achieved that starting with FM 2010 and we intend to go from strength to strength. Onto the FM 2010 Gold Demo and all the details. The demo comes in two flavours, both “Strawberry” and “Vanilla”. The strawberry demo is the full package and complete experience, the vanilla demo is a light version which has been stripped down and is significantly smaller in size."

[Bruins]

Anyone else having issues installing the Strawberry demo for Mac?

[mdbussen]

try checking out some of the threads on the SI forums if you can - you might find something to help you there.

It almost looks like I work for OS since they co-opted my post

[therizing02]

Damn it. As if I don't have enough games to play already!

[theaub]

Things I like

- tab feature is really intuitive
- match graphics are much better now (there's a crowd!)
- tactical features are insane
- some of the press conference stuff is cool (but will probably get old quickly)

That being said, I don't see myself spending the $40. I can live with '09.

[ChrisHero]

Downloading atm, 09 didn't get much play out of me. Hopefully it turns around this year, as I've wasted a good part of my life on the previous versions.

[Mad 69]

I have never tried a Manager game, football or futbol. Do you actually play or do you simply do roster/squad changes and let the CPU play?

[ezio]

Quote: Originally Posted by Mad 69

I have never tried a Manager game, football or futbol. Do you actually play or do you simply do roster/squad changes and let the CPU play?

You do not play the games. You simplay manage the team.

[Mercurial23]

This could be the best FM to date I think. Only been messing with it for the past hour, but I'm very impressed. Love the new layout, much easier to navigate the entire game.

Can't wait until the 30th. Already have it bought on Steam.

[Bruins]

Gonna take me a while to adjust to the new layout, but I'm liking what I see so far. Love the fact that I can instruct a player (like Robinho) to play out wide and cut inside.