Welcome to my blog

Hi there

I have recently started BETA testing Football Manager Live and am going to blog both my own and the game's progress for as long as I am allowed to test the game...

All the background information you need to know is contained at http://www.footballmanagerlive.com/ and via the SI forums at http://www.sigames.com/ - No I don't know whatever happened to Kevin Tom either regarding the original Football Manager.

I have currently played 95 games as J21 Ultras in GW7 and am currently playing in the NFA federation. Unfortunately I have to confess that the majority of these 95 games have been defeats but thankfully FM Live spares us detailed stats confirming how many defeats I have actually had....a possible addition to the real game perhaps?

So far I have really enjoyed playing the game and indeed have had to at least once a night put up with "YOU ARE OBSESSED" shouts from the missus as I leave the living room on a toilet vacation and return 30 minutes later cursing my latest defeat. The biggest compliment I can pay the makers of the game is to say the game runs superbly and is hugely addictive. Its most like Champ Man 0102 and in terms of actual playability no game comes close to this.

Initial Hits :

TRAINING - not having to wade through billions of options just to try and get one of those illusive green attributes to show that you do actually know what your doing is such a bonus. We all want to see our players improve but the way its done here is simple and I am happy that I do not have to visit my local professional team training park to understand what I am doing.

INTERACTION - Being able to play against other players is brilliant and is proper interaction where previously in FM you tried to say the right things to appease your board/fans it now actually really means something and the response is usually immediate. Say the wrong thing and the toys are literally flying of in any direction. Nothing better than sitting in the chat section watching two folk arguing over a friendly result.

There's lots of different type of characters on FM Live, some talk all the time, others will say nothing other than GL, there's good sports and then there's those folk who you batter (on the park) for 89 minutes but cant score, they breakaway and score yet they don't even have the good grace to apologise but instead choose to shout YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS in huge size 80 (well thats how it feels!) letters to really rub it in that despite dominating your yet again heading for a defeat. Overall it does add so much to the enjoyment of the game.

ADDICTION - I can not stress how important this attribute is for a football game yet it is the hardest to acheive, making you want to come back for more, it takes a special game where your first choice after a 6-1 hammering at home is to play another game and not find out if there's a way of restarting without saving - for the record there is not.

Well that rounds of my first blog entry, in future I will update more with regard to the game and my own season. Next time round I will let you know exactly how many of those 95 games have been defeats and discuss more aspects (both good and bad) that FM Live has.

P.S HANDY HINTS FOR CHAT

GL - Good Luck - even if through gritted teeth its nice to be nice right?
GG - Good Game - best left to the end of a reasonably close game, if you've just hammered someone 6-0 its probably best to come up with an alternative saying...
LOL - Laugh Out Loud - Usually after a funny comment, probably not wise to say LOL when you score against your opponent?