Football Manager Handheld (PSP)

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This constant ego-massaging has turned FM into as much of a mind-game as a matter of putting more balls in the net than the opposition - but, crucially, it does add a welcome splash of RPG colour to what would otherwise be a simple team sheet preparation exercise. The 'full fat' version continues to dominate the scene on PC and Mac and it's the least shocking revelation of the year to learn that the 2012 version is officially quite good. Just don't let your joy about the new streamlined match preparation and in depth contract negotiation system creep into your pillow talk, for God's sake. Along with fully up-to-date transfers and manager moves for the 2011/12 season, and all new competition rules. The newly-issued iOS version, meanwhile - a universal app for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch - is a different beast altogether.

Well, evidently FM Handheld was never going to be a direct port, and so the game has been streamlined to make sure the whole experience is as slick as possible. The only slow thing in the game is the set up," promises Jacobson, and having run through a few league games, it's easy to see that this is definitely the case. SI have over 80 employees and I would say at least 60 of them are for FM and the other 20 are FMH (though 18 would be QA as only 2 code).There are WAY too few stats for each player (about half as many as on the PC), so you have the ridiculous situation of all players looking pretty much identical to one another. Now I don't know you or your history in the games industry or any business in general really but it seems like it is funded on the wrong premises. Not so welcome are the presence of the now obligatory (anti) social options, allowing you to bug your friends by spamming their Twitter or Facebook feeds with news of your progress. If you need all the trimmings, then by all means surrender yourself to the all-consuming PC/Mac version. This year with advances in board interaction on club affairs and development, including; stadium expansions and training facility improvements.

There is pretty much no media game engine, so if you sign a player or something, there are no comments, no journalists. You're telling me they could not add any new features or a change of skin, psp is more then capable of handling that. A large chunk of us simply wish SI would just put a 'Championship Manager 2' button somewhere and go back to basics - and that's exactly where its Football Manager Handheld spin-off comes in, with wonderfully refined versions shoehorned into the PSP and iOS platforms.I only played the game on a PSP until 2012 when I tried the IOS version, I never thought in a million years the game would be as good on a phone but it blew me away, the difference between the PSP and the IOS versions. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. is unbelievably good value for a near-perfect refinement of what many of us want from a football management game. Far from worrying about commutes and lunch breaks, SI boss Miles Jacobson jovially suggests another reason to celebrate the brand's transition to the Sony handheld: "It's the best game to play while having a crap," he says, giving us a disturbing mental image we didn't want to dwell on for long.