#Football manager 2017 steam review skin

Though youвЂ™re able to pick from a number of responses and demeanours, the discussions still begin to repeat themselves very early in. The first action you undertake is a meeting with the chairman to discuss budgets and targets for the season, and regular meetings follow with backroom staff, players and press. Meetings are a prominent aspect of FM now but - if, like me - youвЂ™ve found them disappointingly repetitive before, youвЂ™ll find little respite this year. A scout suggests players to watch? One click and itвЂ™s in process itвЂ™s easy to navigate. Your youth team manager thinks a kid should get a pro contract? One click and youвЂ™re in negotiations. Should your backroom staff have a suggestion for training sessions, you donвЂ™t need to work through several screens to make it happen you can action it directly from the inbox. Systems introduced in FM2013 return in much the same format, but have been adjusted to make for a more user-friendly experience. Once again, the Inbox acts as the hub of your club, but minor enhancements have been employed: Categories are now handily colour coded, certain types of information are grouped together in one post where possible, while the layouts of more detailed screens are cleaner and easier to read. The standard Career is the deepest itвЂ™s ever been, allowing you to tinker with the tiniest facets of your club, and thanks to its absorbing nature I spent much time here.

I shouted at my screen, swore at my defence, rued chances missed, and celebrated last-minute winners almost as passionately as I do with the real sport.As always, FM allows you to take the helm of any football club in the world, with nothing but your wits, people skills and tactical knowledge to lead them to glory.

True to form, albeit with refinement rather than the wholesale changes we saw last year, Football Manager 2014 had me animated and exhilarated.

#Football manager 2017 steam review skin

The FM series is a strange beast, in that without ever actually having any gameplay in a traditional sense, it manages to get under my skin like few other sports games can.