Still little brother
Every year it’s the same. Football Manager and FIFA Manager
are released and FM surely gets the most of the voters. It’s not so weird,
because FIFA Manager seemed to have stood still since the game saw the broad of
daylight. This year’s version is a long ride of soccer boredom. Last i checked,
soccer was far from boring so something must have gone wrong in the process.
Real players: FIFA are using their licenses to the maximum.
The game are presented in a not so bad way. In reality, when
starting this up, it’s gives you a good feeling. EA have always had great
licensed music in their games and FIFA Manager 12 got it to. The menus also
looks pretty good, so the first impression of the game is totally good. The
problems comes when you start up a new league and understand that everything is
at is was before in this series. You’ll have a bunch of leagues to choose from,
the most of them fully licensed, so here is the homework lesson done, as in the
FIFA Manager games before.
Typical Rooney: Okay goal, but when are the graphics getting an update?
When in-game and trying to search for players, setting up tactics
and basically doing anything at all, the old problems comes back. The game has
a lot of functions, but the problem is to find everything and it should be
easier in a game like this to do such. This is where Football Manager is in a
whole other level, so FIFA Manager should really learn from them, if they are
hoping to improve their game in the future at all. We already been talking
about the sound. The music is great, but the commentary duo seemed to have been
removed during matches. Maybe for the best, i always simulated anyways, didn’t
used to hear a lot from them. If the game was in the graphic department of FIFA
12 it would have scored a lot higher, but EA seems to use the same graphics for
their manager game as they did the first time. Maybe a time for an update now?
A comment please?: You don't have to be a scientist to answer the questions before a game.
Gamescore
FIFA Manager 2012 (2011)
Graphics: Yeah, the graphics. Seems like it’s still the FIFA
2007 graphics. I got no clue why? It shouldn’t be too hard to bring the new
FIFA 12 engine in the game? The game would have grown on that. 4/10
Audio: Great music in Electronic Arts games, they should have some credits for
that. With the commentary being gone and no match feeling whatsoever, just turn
off sounds instead. But keep on the music! 6/10
Gameplay: Can be great now and then, but the whole game build up is just wrong
in comparison to the manager king. The licenses are in their place, that’s a
good start, but if FIFA Manager is going to be the same game every year, with
only updated squads and players, then it will never knock FM of their high
throne. Some new menus during the matches this year, but this actually makes
the game worse. Something new and fresh is needed badly here! 2/10
Controls: It’s not hard to click on something, but it’s when you’re don’t know
what you are clicking on. That is the biggest problem in this “manager
adventure”. It’s still fun to set up you’re whole damn family, but this game is
not the sims, so what’s the point? Many roads, but no one leads to Rome. 3/10
Overall Score: I now start to understand that EA have enough
with one soccer game and with FIFA 12 everything is brilliant done. You cannot
say the same thing about FIFA Manager 12, as it’s almost the same game we have
seen since it first got out. It’s got some other things that FM don’t have, but
it lacks a lot of things that FM have. I don’t see any reason to try this game,
except maybe for the licenses. If that is a reason to get a game. 3/10
