Football Manager 2012
| Football Manager 2012 | |
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| Developer(s) | Sports Interactive |
| Publisher(s) | Sega |
| Producer(s) | Miles Jacobson |
| Series | Football Manager |
| Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, PlayStation Portable, iOS |
| Release | Microsoft Windows[1], Mac OS X[2] |
Football Manager 2012 (abbreviated to Football Manager 12 or FM12) is a football manager simulation video game. It was released on Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X on 21 October 2011.[4]
New Features
- Players no longer have to decide on which nations are playable at the start of their career. Football Manager 2012 gives players the ability to add or take away playable nations in their saved game as often as they want.
- Several changes to the transfer and contract systems, including loyalty bonuses, better implementation of amateur and youth contracts, an improved transfer centre and the ability to lock areas of the contract negotiation when you aren't prepared to budge, which allows players to offer incentives to football players or agents.
- A new in-game scouting report which includes squad analysis, tactics information and information about goals scored and conceded alongside lots of other scouting improvements.
- New animations, new crowd system, improved weather system, more stadiums, two new cameras - "Behind Goal" and "Director Cam" as well as all other camera angles being reversible.
- A new adaptive layout system, which means setting higher screen resolutions allows more info to be seen. The new interface also contains new filters, customisable columns, a new tactics screen, and new overview screens.
- Changes to team talks and conversations include the new tone system, which allows players to specify the way they want to interact with their team during team talks. There are 5 different tones to choose from with specific comments per tone.
- A new tutorial and a new in-game "how to" system.
Apart from the above Sports Interactive claims to have added over 800 new features, such as the media system, press conferences, the youth system, newgens, the social networking options, friendlies and international management.[5]
Demo
A Demo of the game was released on Steam in association with Sky Sports HD on 6 October, which as usual is half of a season of game play, which can be continued within the full purchased version. The demo is limited to only the leagues of England, Scotland, France, Spain, Holland, Belgium, Italy, Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Australia playable as quick-starts.[6]
Controversy
Football Manager 2012 is the first in the series which requires all players to use Valve's Steam software, this angered many thousands of fans of the series who encountered problems with the third party software. [7][8]
Patches
The first patch for Football Manager 2012 (version 12.0.3) was issued on 28 October 2011.[9]
2.0.3
The changelog for the patch is:
- Fixed a crash on season turnover when adding MLS into the game without having it loaded at game start.
- Fixed Vancouver, Portland and Philadelphia not having Academy players properly generated.
- Fixed a crash when playing with two human managers and one of them was claiming a player waived by the other human manager.
- Fixed an issue where adding a league was causing more people then needed to be loaded into the game.
- Fixed an issue with international competitions sometimes getting the wrong number of teams from a continent.
- Fixed scaling of distance run stat in match stats.
- Included positioning training to goalkeeper shot stopping training
References
- ^ http://www.sega.com/fm2012/?t=EnglishUSA
- ^ http://www.sega.com/fm2012/?t=EnglishUSA
- ^ "Football Manager 12 gold, system specs released". New Game Network. October 6, 2011. Retrieved 2011-10-06.
- ^ "Football Manager 2012 Transfers to Shops on 21st October". Sega. 12 September 2011. Retrieved 12 September 2011.
- ^ http://www.footballmanager.com/games?game_version=pc
- ^ http://www.footballmanager.com/demo
- ^ http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/09/28/football-manager-fans-outraged-at-football-manager-2012-steam-drm/
- ^ http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-09-27-fm-2012-requires-steam-to-play
- ^ http://www.footballmanager.com/news/5440