Championship Manager 4

• Brand new 2D match engine allows you to watch your team play. View the whole match or just view the highlights.
• Play 39 national leagues, with more than 200,000 players and staff.
• Enhanced Manager features for transfers, tactics, training and coaching.
• Fully skinable interface to personalise your playing experience. Two new skins available at launch with more to follow.
• Exhaustively researched by a global team of scouts to ensure absolute accuracy - there is no more realistic management experience.
• Developed with advice from former Liverpool and Republic of Ireland star Ray Houghton.

Product Description ------------------- Championship Manager 4 is the next generation of football management games, offering more players, leagues and competitions than any other title. For the first time ever in the series, Championship Manager 4 features a real-time 2D match engine enabling you to make decisions as the action unfolds. Watch the whole 90 minutes in real time or choose to view crucial match highlights. In addition, this version introduces a whole host of new management options and features to offer an unparalleled level of detail. Championship Manager 4 provides the option to fully customise the training of your team, enabling managers to assign specific schedules. Other new additions include an enhanced contract negotiation system, a more efficient, easy-to-use network game option and totally skinable interface. Developed in close association with former Republic of Ireland and Liverpool star Ray Houghton to guarantee ultimate realism, Championship Manager 4 is the greatest leap the series has ever taken. .co.uk Review ------------- Championship Manager 4 is the latest in the long line of football sims to come out of the Eidos/Sports Interactive Games doors, and followers of the ever popular series will not be disappointed. With over 200,000 players and staff across 39 national leagues, footy fans will delight in the level of detail once again realised--in fact to some it might be slightly mind boggling. New to the game are a number of features including a 2-D match mode that allows you to watch the game unfold, giving you the chance to manage and change positions accordingly when it comes to passing and shooting tactics. Greater emphasis has been placed on training, and the game gives you the chance to assign specific schedules. This of course gives you even more responsibility in making your players "match fit" for the season ahead, and towards the end of the season your decisions become crucial if you plan to get your boys promoted. Other new additions include an enhanced contract negotiation system, a more efficient easier-to-use network play arena and, for those who want it, a skinable interface. In short, this is the most in-depth football sim you'll find on the market. If you are a footy fan then this game will make you loose plenty of . The new features add much-needed elements for the fan base that want more, though they may just be a distraction to the hard-core stat fanatics that rush to buy this title every time it's updated. If you're a football fan this is a must, and if your not, give it a go, you might just love the nation's favourite game after all. --Jason Denwood