I have not even press the "CONTINUE PLAY" button and just scrolling around seeing players, I must say the player data is not accurate at all
using Man Utd, even players like Amri Yahyah who scored 2 goals in preseason against MU gets good finishing 80, pace 79 "for running past ben foster"
Hardi Jafar is the malaysian david beckham? crossing 100 long shot 100 team work work rate 100 and many other above 80 puts him above even european wingers. My god this game is worth exactly 1p for having whoever that researches Malaysian football players network.
Added on August 23, 2009, 4:27 pmMacheda get sick stats like 50s n 60s while hardi jafar n amri yahyah is godlike...
Rodrigo Possebon is an italian

he has italian passport but he is no italian.
Overall this game is not a final, so i wont write it out. I am impressed by the set piece creator and the drills especially, the training department is indeed a plus.
But player data accuracy is

OK time to write my review of this beta demo
This game, love it or hate it, is another management game ought to knock football manager series off the shelves and to bring up the graphics standard to be more or less, be appealing to public, or some would say, reduce the gap btw EAs Fifa Manager's FIFA engine and rice grains running amock on padi field of the SIs. Kudos to that, they done well to implement it "took farkin 2 yrs of effort". The game is easy to grasp upon if u played both Total Club Manager series {somehow the fonts n squad screen are nostalgic as far as i am concerned} "EA brand before renamed into FIFA manager" as well as reigning FM series. I must say the set-piece creator is very nice, and u can replay your set-pieces created on and off again to see effectiveness. but LOL at the set-piece creator bug. U could put 8 man together with 8 opposition marking them, while asking them to run to side of the field while leaving a VERY VERY open space for one unmarked striker to just tap the ball into the back of net be it corner or free-kick "which i m exploiting n m sure many others too". Trainings, drills, fluid arrow-pointing instructions are definitely an add-on rather than a futile attempt. Even the news section is ALL-in-ONE, divided accordingly rather than separated acc to their own leagues in SIs FM - organised, easy to find the news that only what u want to know and hear. Now, while harbouring hopes that BGS would make SI chiefs worry about their own traditional match engine, with a few tweaks here and there on tactics section, I am sure the FM series want-to-be managers would soon get a taste of their innovative features once the demo is out.
When I flipped open the YouTube video to see Roy Meredith promoting their WOW factor supported by Alan Curbishley n Gordon Strachan I thought, lets give it a try given forumers here ^^ promoting this game n let off some eye-catchy pics. Still, I was not convinced by the data of CM series because even the likes of Amri Yahyah can be better than many footballers of the EPL standards, let alone the Coca-Cola championship. Hardi Jaafar getting stats better than the legendary welsh wizard Ryan Giggs, Frank Lampard having a min release clause of 20 mil pounds n moving to Man Utd "if ur not MU manager it is somewhat preset by AI" while there are no fierce rivalries n tempers flare in this game AT ALL, no accurate players n clubs history, Ryan Giggs scoring 103 goals a game

, 4 or 5 players becoming record appearance holder etc.

to name a few.
All in all, BGS should be given credit for trying to stake their claim in managers "gamers" hearts, for introducing a new way of business "buy what amount u think the game is worth". If for the sake of dumb but cool looking match engine, then 1p is money-no-object. with non-accurate data, vague player assessments and non-realistic transfers, Football Manager series will continue to dominate footy management world, at least for the hardcores..
Demo Final Verdict: 2.5/5
Pros: Set-Piece Creator "as flawless and as flawed as u want it to be", Drills, Arrowed Tactics, Prozone analysing as if Shebby Singh virtually is there, Players have no potential ability or current ability - buy what u think can be top class n mould him the way u want him to be", Match Engine GUI
Cons: MATCH ENGINE JOKES Defenders, midfielders making school boy errors eg: back pass often even if the instruction is to attack forward, and often backpass leading to Rio Ferdinand handball "not ONCE, but TWICE in as little as 3 games", slow process, Inaccurate player data, unrealistic transfers "including Bilbao signing non-Basque players", not tacty "may be gud for newbies"
This post has been edited by Jedi: Aug 25 2009, 08:44 PM