For all the claims of a quicker game, it's not vastly speedier, whether with just the one league loaded or the full complement of 26 nations. As for the other claim of constant gameplay', this simply means that you can continue tampering with your squad and so on while the game is processing results.
Not exactly a revolution in the medium, but it does give you something to do during matches apart from drum your fingers. Elsewhere, for all the bragging about having attributes rated out of , there is an option to revert to the traditional out of 20' score too. Championship Manager 4 introduced the concept of the 2D match engine to the series, and this is retained here, but at a slightly jauntier angle. An array of options is available for your viewing pleasure, and you can watch the entire match in either real-time, double-speed, six-speed, speed or simply go for the fast result.
Apart from the absurdity of the idea of watching an entire football match played out by dots, none of the times seem to be particularly accurate and are all largely pointless anyway. As we said ages ago, the obvious thing to do is to include a highlights mode, and thankfully this is the case. However, this is where things begin to unravel, as the game's definition of highlights appears to differ drastically from the accepted norm. The action cuts off in the middle of a goalmouth scramble, goals are even sometimes missed, although interestingly the whole thing slows down in order for the referee to run half the length of the pitch in order to book a player.
Any tension is taken out of the experience, and the game can go from 60 minutes on the clock to full time in the blink of an eye, thus scuppering any plans to bring on substitutes or make tactical changes. Attempting to enjoy a tangible match experience is something of a game in itself, as you find yourself trying to second-guess the computer by switching off the highlights mode partway through the second half, and manually guiding the match home through a combination of double-speed and six-speed.
This alone is enough to make you lose interest, but the more you play the game, the more it begins to fall apart, with a series of flaws and bugs appearing on a regular basis.
The bottom line is that CM5 simply isn't finished. Had we received this disc out of the blue, we would have deemed it unreviewable and perhaps knocked out a cautiously noncommittal preview. The fact that it's actually on sale in this state is little short of a disgrace, and is a damning indictment of the unprofessional nature of the games industry.
It has been well publicised that the finances of CM5 publisher Eidos are in a parlous state to say the least, and it doesn't take a conspiracy theorist to suggest that the company simply got it on the shelves before the end of the financial year in a last ditch attempt to save the company.
It's a sickener all round, not least for the developer, who, given time and testing could feasibly have produced a decent game. It was never going to match Football Manager , but the signs are that it could at least have been competent. If BGS remains in existence, no doubt patches will continue to appear thick and fast, but unfortunately, you can't polish a turd. Eidos, you have dropped the ball.
The more you play it, the more they keep coming, with CM5's bugs proving a mix of comical, niggling and fatal. And don't forget, this is the patched version. For starters, how about the same news story cropping up twice in a row? Or the fact you can happily select supposedly ineligible players even if they're on loan elsewhere. No more than a minor annoyance? OK, imagine how you'd feel if you watched your team win a cup-tie and were then informed you'd been knocked out of the competition.
A bit of a pisser? Now is to open the game, choose the main leagues I lately choose the main Europeans like Germany, Spain, France, England, Italy and Portugal plus Brazil and Argentina , choose your team and try to win everything you can! Do you know the walkthrough to win everything in CM?
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