FM 2009: What Do You Think?

[Sean]

FM 2009 First Look Trailers

FM2009 & FM Handheld 2009 - Part 1 of 2

FM2009 & FM Handheld 2009 - Part 2 of 2

3D Match Engine First Footage

FM 2009 Screenshots

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FM 2009 Feature Roundup

The videos to the left give us the first look at the brand new Football Manager 2009 (FM 2009) by Sports Interactive & SEGA. From the trailers some of the cool new features we can see are:

• 3D Pitch - The pitch is now in 3D but not a over the top FIFA/Pro Evo style but a much smaller scale tactical view. It is still a work in progress though and may change before new release. The match engine has been in development for 3 years with the support of Japan's Virtua Striker team. For those who don't like change the 2D view will still be available.
  
• Full Match Timeline - There is now a timeline on display during a match which will enable the user to click on a certain key incident and quickly view it on the 3D match engine. This is very similar to the feature that is in Football Manager Live.


• Widgets - During a match you will be able to pick which 'Widgets' you want to display such as Player Ratings, Match Stats, Live Scores etc....


• Updated Skin - The look of the skin has been changed slightly with a few more features added for better user accessibility.


• Assistant Manager Feedback - Tactical & Motivational feedback during matches to help you see what you are doing right and more importantly what you are doing wrong.


• Press Conferences - Before and after matches and when you take a new job. These will play a key role and the answers you choose to the questions may come back to haunt you later in your managerial career.


• Training - More specific training on learning new 'Special Moves'. So players can now learn to do stepovers etc.. Very useful feature to help train youngsters up.


• Female Managers - No explanation needed, pointless feature.


• Widescreen Support - The game will now be able to work on those nice new widescreen monitors that you should all have. Gone are the days of 1024 x 768.


• Transfer System Overhaul - Complete overhaul of the whole system so it will now be much more realistic.

[Redders]

New match pitch looks good. Not much information in rest of video about actual game just SI sucking themselves off.

[Lee]

Originally Posted by Redders

New match pitch looks good. Not much information in rest of video about actual game just SI sucking themselves off.

Word. To save yourself 7 minutes just skip to the end o the video and they show a few screenshots.

[Gregor]

Yeh this first video is just people fuzzing over FM, but right near the end they show like 2 seconds of the pitch.

the 3d pitch looks impressive, cant wait to see it in action, so hopefulyl in the next part of the documentry

[Gregor]

Second Parts out now

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77URmWUc-1k

-Tactic feedback: Sounds like a brilliant idea, cant wait
-Female Manager: Why? Like lee said, who complained about that?
-3D: Looks well sexy, cant wait to try it
-Improved trasnfer system - will have to wait to play the game to see how improved it is

[Grant]

3d pitch actually looks really good, doesnt look ridiculous like watching a fifa match and still looks like your playing fm.

[Redders]

Do you lot not realise women like football and some like FM?

Some of the features sound good i like the press conference thing

[NUFCSean]

Yeah the 3D pitch definitely looks much better thn I was expecting. The news conferences look pretty cool aswell, can't wait for it to come out now. More than I was expecting I gotta admit, wp SI.

[Lee]

He mentioned improved transfer rumours too. So hopefully there's a separate page for all that now instead of clogging your news stream up with pointless links to every single player on your shortlist.

*edit* Allowing players to actually train preferred moves is pretty nice too. Was sick of having to make my youngsters learn from people just so they could get one.

[Douy]

I like the idea of better feedback from your assistant, especially tactical feedback. Press conferences is a good idea aswell. Female managers is the most pointless thing ever, at best like one women will play FM I think.

[James]

I like the 3d match engine, lets see if it is actually any good.
Press conferences - I'm surprised they have waited this long to put them in

[Sean]

I've added the screenshots to the first post. Match engine looks swishty.

[Redders]

Yeah match engine looks good, press conferences looking very interesting but i guess they will get as boring as the usual press comments unless they have a HUGE list of questions randomly spurted up.

[Sean]

Originally Posted by Redders

Yeah match engine looks good, press conferences looking very interesting but i guess they will get as boring as the usual press comments unless they have a HUGE list of questions randomly spurted up.

...and if they actually make a difference to the game.

[Kris]

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