#Football manager 2015 gameplay full#

#Football manager 2015 gameplay full#

While the Handheld version was fun, by the time the 2015 version was published, many members of our forums were, rightfully so, complaining about its limitations and claiming that top-tier tablets had the processing power to run a full port of the PC game. The Football Manager franchise has been primarily a PC game since its first appearance in 1993, and while a few years ago SI decided to develop a handheld version of the game (called Football Manager Handheld), the developers had to remove many of its features and shrink its huge player database to keep phones from exploding.

So, what exactly is FMC 2015, and why is its arrival on tablets (admittedly, only “high-end' tablets) a big deal for iOS gaming? In FMC you are the coach of a football club and you get to manage its every aspect, and I do mean every aspect. Yet, even my failures have been entertaining because FMC has mastered the art of letting the player create unique and utterly entertaining stories in every single playthrough. I’ve spent literally countless hours playing Championship Manager and, subsequently, Football Manager on both a PC and a tablet, and my clubs have experienced incredible highs and remarkable lows. Playing Football Manager has always been a very intense gaming experience because I always know that every decision I make, like buying a new player or changing tactics mid-match, changes my story in the game. In my many, many hours playing Football Manager and its precursor, Championship Manager, I’ve had to make choice after choice and, in the process, I’ve created a multitude of stories. It’s because even though many don’t realize it, at its core, FMC is a game about creating stories. I’m sure you’re wondering why I’ve started a review of Sports Interactive’s Football Manager Classic 2015 ( FMC) ($19.99), which has finally landed on tablets, with a confession of my love of RPGs, strategy games, and choose-your-own-adventure gamebooks. Unsurprisingly, I also really enjoyed many choose-your-own adventure gamebooks, and their later digital adaptations, for the stories they let me build and the sense, or illusion, of freedom they provided. In RPGs, I got to choose my class, equipment and, often, morality, while in strategy games, I often hand-picked the units I would bring to battle and had plenty of freedom in planning and executing my strategies. I’ve always looked for games that made me feel that my choices, even small ones, mattered and games that let me create my own stories. I loved the RPGs of the 80s and 90s (the Baldur’s Gates and the Fallouts), and also many classic hex-based strategy games (I still fondly remember Blue Byte’s Battle Isle and its glorious hexagonal warfare). Throughout my gaming life spanning from the mid-80s to today, I’ve mostly gravitated towards games that ask a lot of a player but provide fantastic experiences in return. Necessary Disclaimer: Although this review is about the sport US readers call “soccer,' I’ll be using the term football to be consistent with the game’s title.