EIDOS or SIGAMES?

User Rating: 5.2 | Championship Manager 5 PC
When the relationship between EIDOS and SIGAMES ended, the fans of the Championship Manager series were divided into two camps. One group stuck to EIDOS and its new Championship Manager, the other group stayed loyal to the programmers of SIGAMES. The writer of this review belongs to the latter :-) That is why I prefer Football Manager 2005 (or World Soccer Manager, its alternative title) above Championship Manager.

EIDOS did not succeed enhancing the loading times and the game speed in CM5. There are also some problems with the players transfer value. After scoring a goal in a league match, my 17 year old striker suddenly had a transfer value of €5.2M. I found out that the transfer value depends stongly on the player’s perfomance in the last match played. Another problem is that sometimes a player just disappears from your team squad, and you have to find it back again with the Quick Search function. There is one positive point that I should mention: You can view the match now in an 3D-angle, that’s the only improvement compared to the previous versions of CM. Go and try yourself… I prefer Football Manager.