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Football Manager 2022, the proof

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New year, new Football Manager: the video game of football managerial simulation continues to evolve, becoming more and more complex and close to the experience of managing a team.

Sports Interactive’s title carries few, but interesting news including: a Data Center, game engine improvements and a mysterious new Versus mode not yet available. More and more, the gaming experience shifts from simulating matches to simulating the management of the entire sports club.

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Football Manager 2022, the modalities
In addition to the usual Career modes (both online and offline), the new Versus is also present in the selection screen, which will only be available online. Meanwhile, the Career mode have been improved with greater attention to detail in the creation of the virtual avatar of the coach: a complete choice of physiognomic characteristics, as well as different outfits. Now it is therefore possible to be the coach who always wears a jacket and tie (elegant coach), or the complete suit of a suit (a bit like Sarri). There doesn’t seem to be any optimizations on database loading or day simulation (although there have been no slowdown issues for at least a couple of years), but in Career mode there is now a new management of the last transfer market day, with a countdown that runs slowly and offers the possibility to finalize the latest negotiations with more time.

Football Manager 2022, the Data Center
The Data Center is the substantial novelty of the new chapter: available only after a few league games, it requires a complete staff that can create detailed reports, and gets better with each new official match. The Data Center is the result of applying big data to an information-packed game like Football Manager. A set of statistics on players and their skills, formations, competitions and correlations between them, which theoretically can inform the coach about future choices. The problem with this novelty is that it generates even more data, helping to make optimal team management even more complex: if you wanted to take full advantage of the Data Center, you should probably play 6-8 hours a day, learning from the statistics to observe new players with potentially interesting characteristics, teams to face in the future or even just choose the type of training and the position on the field for each player.

Football Manager 2022, the meeting with the staff

Football Manager 2022, the game engine
Despite statements about the improvement of the game engine during matches, the experience does not change significantly: the spectators in the stands are now more defined, and there is more care in the structure of the stadium, but passes, shots, crosses and all. the animations remain the same. There are also new pre-game animations, with teams warming up and an aerial view with the stadium filling up. Furthermore, the match begins only through user input, even after the speech in the locker room and the confirmation of the formation.

Football Manager is evolving, breaking out of the limits of a traditional video game where the dynamics are only deepened to a certain level of detail. In the simulation, any decision taken (or delegated) can modify the behavior of the players on and off the field, as well as public opinion. With the introduction of the Data Center, Fm becomes an advanced analysis tool also for coaches or potential such, simulating real gaming analysis experiences through platforms such as Wyscout.

Every new staff member and every player has specific requests, and a disordered reaction can cause disruptions both in the short and especially in the long term. Press conferences, especially pre-game ones, can be very long, and if you want to make a good impression, you have to answer dozens of questions from journalists. It takes almost more time to hold the press conference than to direct the actual match, a bit like in reality. The direction of Sports Interactive is clear: the limit of realism has not yet been reached, and there is still a lot that can be done.

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Football Manager 2022 is available on Steam, Epic Games and Microsoft Store for 54.99 euros; the offer is completed by an edition for Xbox (also included with the Game Pass), Fm 22 Mobile for Android and iOS and Fm 22 Touch for Nintendo Switch.

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