FIFA Manager 12

FIFA Manager 12 is a coaching simulator for those who are more interested in the office than the field. The club gives its all: composition, tactics, training, finances, negotiations, academy, stadium construction and communication with the press. The game does not forgive carelessness: a lack of money quickly turns into dissatisfaction among the players, and a series of defeats turns into talk of resignation. In this part, the developers expanded the section with the manager’s personal life: in addition to work, there are meetings, family and everyday events that can influence the mood and even decisions about the club. An unexpected twist for the football genre, but it adds humanity to the career and makes it feel like a long story. The match engine allows you to watch your team’s games in full and intervene in tactics during the match, and, if desired, simply waste the result. Reports and analytics are detailed: the mood of the players, their requirements, the state of their form and readiness for the next match. After a couple of seasons, you begin to understand who should be kept and who should be sold, even before the crisis begins. Separately, it is worth noting the training process: an individual plan can be drawn up for each football player, and the load must be dosed taking into account age and susceptibility to injury. Agents, sponsors and journalists constantly demand attention, and all this takes up as much time as watching matches. This is why the game feels like work and not entertainment for the evening. The game is one of those products that live on the computer for years. A career in it is measured not in evenings, but in hundreds of hours, and for those who like to count and plan, this is just enough to not get bored soon.