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Or at least until the highly anticipated Championship Manager 4. This is now the third update of CM3, and it is tempting to suggest that with all hands on CM4, it has simply been knocked out to boost the coffers in the meantime.

However, that would be to do a disservice to the legions of researchers who ensure the accuracy of the player database, thus creating the staggeringly realistic experience that fans have come to expect. Of course, by realistic we don’t mean motion-captured faces, as in an age of visual extravagance, Championship Manager remains defiantly graphics-free, offering an open goal to those who seek to devalue it.

Fortunately for Eidos , always had at least one CM evangelist in the camp, a rich heritage stretching from launch editor Paul Lakin, through Patrick McCarthy, Jeremy Wells, and my good self, with Mark Hill no relation snapping eagerly at my heels.

It’s not without its knockers though. Chris Anderson dismisses it as a glorified spreadsheet, and following successive relegations with Coventry City, Dave Woods won’t have it in the house. But for those who appreciate its merits, it’s an enthralling experience, and one that is unique to each individual player. Whereas Mark Hill seeks European glory with the continent’s glamour clubs, for me it’s always been about Chester City.

No more, no less. That’s the team I support, so that’s the team I play as in the game. I know nothing of the likes of Saviola, reduced to trawling the lower leagues for inexpensive journeymen while struggling to field 1I fit players. It has become a curious symbiosis, watching Chester at the weekend 20 games last season and then spending large chunks of my leisure time pretending to manage them. In his preview, Mark talked about players in the game developing personalities.

This is absolutely true, but considerably more so when you actually know some of the players in real life. As such, I find it difficult to drop a goalkeeper who recently complimented me on an article, and likewise I am loathe to award the captaincy to a player with whom I had a minor scuffle at the end-of-season party.

I am quite possibly losing my mind. But that’s the power of the game, which can instil dedication almost on a par with real football. Naturally, its prime audience is football fans, as attested by the fact that I am writing these words in a hotel room in Munich the day before England’s World Cup qualifier with Germany.

Anyway, to update or not to update? Instead of directly controlling a football player during matches, you get to oversee the logistics concerning the football club. From training and handling finances to set up matches and fan signing events, managing a team, and helping them rise to fame is just as important and can be just as challenging. Unlike the other games, this one had no new playable leagues added—until a patch for South Korea’s K-League was added—so the mechanics were polished more.

The game also lets you send players away for surgery, make player notes and comparison—plus, there are fictional characters available. Interaction with the media and board has been improved, as well. After the game became free to download , its online community endeavored to provide patches and data updates. Be the first to leave your opinion! Laws concerning the use of this software vary from country to country. But for those whose heads have been buried in the sand, here’s a brief recap on the CM phenomenon.

It is now ten years since the game first appeared on the old Commodore Amiga, packed into three floppy disks. Even then, it was an all-consuming management game, with a level of detail and involvement never before seen. CM has since evolved to include more leagues, more information, more statistics and greater tactical control, but even after a decade of updates, at its heart CM remains the same addictive-as-hell game with a cast iron guarantee of hours, days, weeks, months of anguish, tension and sheer enjoyment.

The game can become an obsession. You think it at work or in the car, wondering if Michael Bridges can cut it at the top level or just how long can Teddy Sheringham compete in Premiership “no” and “two seasons maximum” are the answers. CM is also a breaker of homes – just ask my missus after she hasn’t heard from me for six hours and another essential DIY project is left undone for another weekend.

So we’ve established Sports Interactive’s title is the greatest management sim ever, and for many, the greatest PC game ever. But what about the nuts and bolts – how do you turn Southend United into Real Madrid? How do you keep Doug Ellis happy without spending any cash? Well, you take over a team from any one of about 20 countries , pick a squad, train them, select a tactical system that works and then pick the side and watch them play – in an exciting, text-only way of course.

To complicate matters there are injuries, transfers, money matters, player contracts, demanding chairmen, demanding fans, demanding players and their evil agents, the media poking their noses in, the FA and of course other managers, like Sir Alex, tapping up your best players.

What the already initiated among you will want to know is what’s changed since last time. The most obvious is the new player database. Well, it’s only about three weeks behind – Stam has been kicked out of United, Dean Richards is at Spurs, but Peter Taylor has not been sacked by Leicester yet. As well as the database being up to date, so is the transfer system – a few weeks into the first season, a new UEFA directive, which is far too complicated to go into here, comes into force.

There are wordy, on-screen explanations, but basically there is less of the Bosman free-for-all approach to transfers and smaller clubs are more likely to be financially compensated for the loss of a key player. The teams are represented in almost too much detail – take over Manchester United, Inter, Bayern Munich or Real Madrid and the board will want the Champions League, but you’ll have pots of cash.

Celtic or Rangers want the Premier League and a good show in Europe. The chairmen on the middle ranking side like Spurs, Aston Villa or Newcastle will want a UEFA Cup place, but you’ll have a limited transfer fund and really need to sell to get any quality in.

Anything lower and the quest becomes survival with very limited funds, and more often than not, a huge debt that needs to be cleared before any new players can be bought – only year-old pros or teenage hopefuls are usually available for free. That brings me on to the first main modification – manager power. Fed up of chairmen giving you the brush-off? Well, now you can deliver a “back me or sack me” ultimatum. And in an eerie echo of the George Graham sacking, I demanded Spurs to put their short arms into their deep pockets to fund our Inter Toto campaign – and was dumped on the spot.

Thankfully, I was rescued from the jobseekers queue by a plum job at Chesterfield. A similar feature allows you to appeal to the FA against a sending off – do it once and you might get a key player’s ban reduced. Do it too often and you’ll get a reputation as a whinger and never be taken seriously again. The optional attribute-masking mode is a great addition, which sometimes prevents you getting a full run-down of a player’s abilities. You might know if he’s a good header of the ball, but his determination, work-rate and stamina will be a mystery, until your scouts have had a good look at him.

The football world is packed with examples of players who were not scouted properly and came a cropper – remember Savo Milosevic of who Aston Villa manager had only seen a compilation video of him in action. And there was the embarrassing matter of the new ‘George Weah’ picked by Graham Souness at Southampton who had to be pulled off after five minutes because he quite clearly hadn’t a clue.

The same applies now – scout the players first, then buy. You can also have the scouts watch your next opposition. Do this and in the run-up to each match you get an automatic run-down on the other side – their preferred formation, how they play and who the key players are. Being told that Michael Owen is out injured is a big help.

Comparing two players side-by-side on screen to see who’s best is also possible now. Some might find this useful, but after a few comparisons, we didn’t really bother with it and would not miss it. Likewise the new memo system, which allows managers to put reminders on a players file, such as to renew a contract or look at a transfer prospect.

The only modification we have yet to come across in our first three seasons is to send a player away for surgery on recurring injuries. Despite having a sicknote Anderton in and out of my team, my physio never once suggested he go away for this miracle cure. As you can see, there are some great and some not so great little add-ons and improvements, but they are just that – little add-ons.

At least they take nothing away from the previous incarnation. As a stand-alone game, this is CM and superb as always. However, as the game is so damned addictive and has a large following, we doubt Eidos or Sports Interactive will have any trouble shifting these by the barrowful. John Barnes -1 point. Please Help 2 points. Please of you know I can’t abandon this save lol. Gamer86 -1 point. Bill 0 point.