Football Manager Handheld (PSP)

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Also like I said I have seen the ps vita version and I will be picking it up, but that does not excuse what they done on the psp. Winning wasn't too hard so I used to challenge myself by playing with League 2 teams and take them to the Premier League (Omar Koroma ftw), but I'm currently struggling to win against lowly opposition with Liverpool. For a start, the look and feel is completely different, with a modern touch interface sporting big, bold iPhone-friendly buttons, and an intuitive drag-and-drop system that makes tactical changes and transfer hunting a cinch. A large chunk of us simply wish SI would just put a 'Championship Manager 2' button somewhere and go back to basics - and that's exactly where its Football Manager Handheld spin-off comes in, with wonderfully refined versions shoehorned into the PSP and iOS platforms. i tried changing my formation because it wasnt working for me but found theres only 2 formations to choose from!

Perhaps the title of this game should be Football Manager Abridged given that so many fun aspects of the game have been cutout to squeeze the game onto the PSP. You're telling me they could not add any new features or a change of skin, psp is more then capable of handling that. The same solid handheld principles apply to the iOS version, with the ability to 'manage' squad selection and tactics on a fairly superficial level if you wish and up to four active nations running at once (from a choice of 12).Obviously the vast layers of depth has been stripped down and refined for the purposes of intuitive, on the move play, leaving what has been compared to a CM3-style experience - a decision many long-term fans that hunger for the old-style simplicity will appreciate. It has more or less all the leagues you could conceivably wish for, a simple, uncluttered interface, all the transfer and strategic depth you need, and just enough media, player, staff and board interaction. A small reduction in the number of stats, the removal of superfluous graphics like club badges, and the super-sharp quality of the widescreen PSP display makes it possible to still cram in tons of detailed information with very little in the way of compromise. I have got an xbox but started getting bored of lma manager and decided to get a manager game for psp. On the bright side, football manager for ps vita looks great will definitely pick it up for my vita .

Even so, we did have initial concerns that the vast amount of text that you need to cram on the screen would also prove to be a limiting factor, but not so. You can even get your assistant to loan out reserve team players for you to give them much-needed experience. If only we could use all those dead hours during the week and could play it on the way to work or during lunch breaks, Ragbag Rovers would be kings of Europe by now. In 2004, after splitting from long-time publishers Eidos, London based developers Sports Interactive bought the rights to the Football Manager name and the series was re-awakened for the PC age. Maybe throw in a few crafted asides about taking your plucky band of strugglers to improbable European glory, and then go about the business of discussing the shiny new features, before finishing up with a tearful account of how your partner shacked up with the editor of the Angling Times because it was a better option than hearing about contract negotiations and tactical nuances before bed.The game was a hit and spawned several sequels, including Football Manager 2 (1988), Football Manager: World Cup Edition (1990) and Football Manager 3 (1993).

Happily, there's never any sense of impending failure if you don't bother with expanding your stadium or improving your training facilities, and the game never nags you into doing anything you're not bothered about. The shoulder buttons, meanwhile, act as 'back' and 'next', and within minutes the general navigation becomes almost as easy as the full game. On the plus side, if you have multiple iOS devices, you can play the game on one and continue it on another using the same saved game. There have since been several versions of Football Manager released across many formats by Sports Interactive and Sega. It'll take a bit of getting used to, for sure, but SI has opted for a pleasingly intuitive solution that's the next best thing.

Perhaps the most pertinent issue is how you translate a mouse-based control system to the PSP, and the answer is surprisingly simple. There is no way you can become the most sucessful manager if you're limited to 4-4-2, 3-4-3 and so on. Some are too scared; they've heard about the divorce cases, this way they can sneak it into the loo, play it at half-time, whatever.

Continuing improvements to the 3D match engine also help drag it kicking and screaming into the present, although it's still a long way short of FIFA Manager in that regard. Not exactly ideal for the fans but there isn't anything they can do as for the "poor sales on PSP" well that is why they released a repackaged version as there was good sales and the PSP console is losing its audience anyway so the sales would have gone down from when it hit its peak in 2007-2009.A control legend at the bottom of the screen gives players four context-sensitive shortcut options at any one time, making it straightforward to select specific actions quickly and easily. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH).