NEED TO KNOW
WHAT IS IT? The latest entry in the football management simulator series
EXPECT TO PAY £40
DEVELOPER Sports Interactive
PUBLISHER Sega
REVIEWED ON GTX 980 Ti, Intel i5-4690K, 32GB RAM
MULTIPLAYER Yes
LINK footballmanager.com
When Ardiles returned to manage Spurs, he played to their strengths, putting all five world-class strikers in from the start. It was breath-taking… and a disaster. I find that devil-may-care, joie-de-vivre irresistible, and that’s why I suck at football manager sims. I’m a fan, and the intricacies of the game are often too arcane. Just play better, I scream, occasionally out loud.
So, the Football Manager series scares me. There are menus and charts and significant obfuscation of its systems. It’s big and clever, for the statistician and connoisseur whose dish is data. Sports Interactive’s commitment to quality is a feast for those with the acumen to get to the bottom of the bowl.
BITING BACK
The tooth is out there in adventure TEETH OF GLASS
SMOKE ALARM
THE INVISIBLE SMOKE FACTORY is back in a Flash
MECH ME OVER
Move over Mario, here's mech-based platforming in ARMORED SHELL NIGHTJAR
"I like Pillars of Eternity better than Baldur's Gate III"
PILLARS OF ETERNITY deserves a bigger space in the CRPG pantheon
"A harrowing dark fantasy about hapless, bright-eyed children"
Spelunking into hell with MADE IN ABYSS: BINARY STAR FALLING INTO DARKNESS
THE IMMORTAL LOCK
A massive, meaty game in a single horrific Quake map.
NEW MANOEUVRES
Building a dedicated sim racing space in an average family house
OVERWATCH 2
Save me space girl.
REET GOOD TIME
THANK GOODNESS YOU'RE HERE is a riotous recreation of Yorkshire
THE PLUCKY SQUIRE
How many games let you make friends with a MtG card?
