football manager 2009 is gold! | | |
It's Monday, and the weekend has involved a lot of waiting around for news about whether the game has gone into manufacture or not, doing interviews with various lots of magazines and websites, catching up on email, getting over man flu, and even managed to go to the cinema. And a drink. And watch football, although only on the TV. | | |
This morning, I got to shave off my beard. Which means Football Manager 2009 is now in manufacture! | | |
That also means that today we've announced information about the demo for Football Manager 2009 and the system specs for the game. The demo is coming out on Saturday night/Sunday morning at midnight, and you can read more about it on our forums at http://community.sigames.com/showthread.php?t=53492 | | |
This weeks new feature announcements will not be taking place here, but will be taking place at www.shortlist.com, with one new feature a day. | | |
Instead, HMV's Sports Interactive blogs will be taken over with more indepth information about some of the new features in Football Manager 2009, starting with co-founder of Sports Interactive, Paul Collyer, talking about the match engine. | | |
I've also got a backlog of questions here from people who've emailed via the blogs blogs@sigames.com), so I'll be answering loads of those tomorrow, along with the next indepth look. | | |
But, for now, it's over to Paul. | | |
The last year or so has been one of the most challenging and motivating from a match engine development point of view. The Football Manager Live Beta, and the introduction of a 3D view in FM2009 have challenged the match engine to improve like never before. Firstly by taking the FM2008 | | |
match engine into an environment of 1000s of human vs human matches, and all the tactical variations that come from that via Football Manager Live's beta, and secondly by exposing the engine to a 3D representation where flaws never noticed in 2D now jump out, and so the need for realistic looking football is magnified many-fold. | | |
