No, you don’t get FIFA’s incredibly detailed stadia or player likenesses but honestly, who really cares when you’re successfully managing your team to glory?ĭuring key match incidents you can view your player ratings as well as their fitness and motivation levels but a nice addition is the attacking heatmap at the bottom of the screen showing where your attacks are being focused. The players don’t moonwalk like they used to and the way they make runs and interact with the ball at different heights makes things much more realistic. Personally I like the old 2D aerial view with the blobs, but the 3D match engine is so much improved now that I used that for watching replays of the goals my team scored. Viewing games is highly customisable too you’ll be able to view the entire game, key parts or only highlights, and the view you have is entirely up to you as well. I could go on about the lack of player photos or the appalling character models that come from the create a manager mode, but you’ll barely see them past loading the game. That said, it’s not the worst thing in the world and considering it’s the only real issue that Football Manager 2019 has it should be applauded that so much effort has been put into giving you so many ways to talk to the players.
There’ll be a lot of times when you’ll find something close and have to make do, but when dealing with AI that can have its attitude change on a die you really don’t want to leave things up to chance.
In fact, while the range of communication options is extensive, often you won’t find the right words to say to the right player. For instance, telling a player to go out with no pressure in an aggressive tone is going to wind up with a few baffled looks. You’ll need to make sure that you combine the thing you want to say with the feeling you want to put into it or else you’ll send players out onto the pitch confused.
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Pre-match prep is also a focus too, as team talks can now be broken down from the full team, to attack, midfield and defensive areas and also to individual players. You should choose your words carefully though because just one wrong utterance can result in them losing respect for you and demanding a transfer. Each player can be pulled aside and spoken to, giving them confidence boosts before a match. The thing is, it’s not solely down to your tactics now.
All these options are backed up by an induction system so that people new to the game can be taught how these things work before attempting to get their team to play, or, if you need a refresher it’s there to help you. You can also create your own style should you wish to do so by advising your team what you want them to do with the ball, without it, or in transition from defence to attack. What’s new this time round is that you can tell your players how you want them to play by choosing from predetermined styles, so you can get your team playing the Guardiola way with a spot of Tiki-taka, or constantly pressure your opponents with the Gegenpress system.
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Formations now allow you to select roles for positions, left backs can be marauding wingers and goalkeepers can be sweeper keepers the sheer wealth of options for positioning and the roles contained therein allow you to fine tune your team’s mentality with how to focus their attacking intent. As a match looms you should be asking yourself if your tactics are right, and the game gives you 101 ways to ensure you are properly prepared and that your players are too. Here in the land of Football, decisions shouldn’t be rushed, there should always be a second guess, a thing to tweak, a player to talk to. Here’s the thing though: take your time to move your mouse cursor around and you’ll soon realise just how easy it is to get the information you need, and that’s the first real lesson the game teaches you: to take your time. Yes, I had played 2018 Touch on the Switch, but here the layout is slightly different and compared to my last full-fat experience the sheer volume of information on-screen at any one time can almost seem insurmountable. Now, it has been a while since my last dalliance with a Football Manager game, and upon booting up 2019 I was shocked at how much had changed. But there’ll always be something at the back of their minds, a player to scout, a team to research, tactics to adjust it’s a thing always gnawing at you, and as a Football Manager player myself… I like it.
The life of a Football Manager player is like that of any other: there’ll be times that they do family things, go to work or even play other games (there’s a reason why Football Manager has been cited in thirty-five divorce cases). It’s often said that you don’t play Football Manager, you live it, and to be honest that’s as true now as it has ever been.
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