FM 2012 first impression

On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 21:11:32 GMT, Graham Thurlwell put finger to keyboard
and typed:

>On the 16 Nov 2011, Mark Goodge
>wrote:
>
>>>Recently I've actually been playing CM 01/02 again on my retrogaming
>>>machine. Quite a surreal experience really! Currently managing
>>>Magdeburg in German Regional Division North, in 02/03.
>
>> I quite fancy playing CM3 again, as that's when I first discovewred the
>> game and was instantly hooked on it. But I've lost the disk, and in any
>> case it won't run on Windows XP.
>
>> Will 01/02 run on XP? If so, I might give it a go.
>
>Could be worth a shot. I'm running it natively in '98 so there's a
>decent chance as I've managed to get games of a similar vintage
>running on the XP box. It'll either work or it won't.

I've been toying with the idea of setting up a vintage games box anyway, as
I'd like to be able to play Command and Conquer again and that won't run in
XP either. Something else to run on it would make the plan a bit more
justifiable.

>If it does run, and you don't select all leagues, maximum detail and
>all running in foreground on a modern PC I /will/ hunt you down and
>kill you.

Yes, the idea of being able to run it at full detail for the first time is
one of the things that appeals.

>CM 01/02 was the last of the CM3 generation and is generally
>considered to be one of the classic versions. It was followed by CM4
>which enjoyed a somewhat mixed reception and was followed by the last
>SI Championship Manager, 03/04 (which needs a more powerful CPU than I
>have in the Win98 box).

Indeed. CM4 was when the series came close to jumping the shark. The
inclusion of a visual game engine, albeit only in 2D, was a radical
departure from its text-only predecessors and it seemed to me at the time
that more effort had been put into the eye candy than the gameplay. Once
the 2D, and later 3D, match engines had bedded in, so to speak, and
attention shifted back to the gameplay then later versions started to get
better again, but at the time I was not at all impressed. The FM series is
definitely better than the CM4 series, but it's changed so much from what I
first started with that it's almost a different game now.

Mark
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Nick the Greek wrote:

> I *cough*downloaded it*cough*, installed it, but didn't quite find the
> time to advance beyond the season's first friendly game.

You too occupied with protesting?

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Miljenko [milcrnko at inet dot hr]

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