My review of the game
Basics are the same as last year. You can control club, national team, both of tem or you can make your own new club. There can be up to 4 friends you can play with. After you all have chosen the clubs you can start playing. Basically it's the same as last year. You take a look at your players. You set your tactics, you put your player roles and you go to transfer market to search if there are any good players on the market. You go to calendar and set your meetings and then you skip to the next match. The soundtrack is the same as last year also. Put there are some good things in that game too. First of all the menu is great. If you click to the club or somewhere it opens the club things and everything else. So you don't need to open everything one by one. Also if you move your mouse to left side of the screen, you can see your ranking, your league stats and there are shortcuts to the newspaper and to the MAT. MAT is the same as last year. You can use MAT to analyze matches. How the passes did go and who were your best players. Also you can watch how your players moved on the field. There's nothing new in the newspaper but it's still good. There are more faces in the game too. But some faces look really bad. Like Jaap Stam's face. It looks like they picked the first picture they got from the Internet. The game modes are the same as last year and they're quite good. You can use instant results if you are not interested in that game or you can use 3D match if you really want to see it. The 3D match is quite good, but i still don't get how the players can shoot so wide when they are in front of the goal. The graphics are still quite good in it. The another thing is youth players. If you start in the lowest league you can use your youth players, but if you are a top club the youth players are quite useless. The players are in the groups like 17/18 year old players, 15/16 year old players, 13/14 year old players and 11/12 year old players. The 11/12 year old players are quite pointless, because the players must get to the 17/18 year old players group to get promoted to the main team. So it means that you have to play about 6 seasons to get them into your main team and they might not be the best players. Only new thing with the youth team is that you can set up youth camps all over the world. The game play is pretty good, but sometimes it's a little bit strange. If you play with a stronger team you often win, but if you play with the weaker team than you, you can loose. The other thing is that the game is too easy. You have a lot of money at the beginning and the money doesn't disappear. It comes more and more. There's another feature – you can deal with your personal life. You can learn playing golf or learn how to sail. You can have your wife and kids. You can buy your own stuff. Like cars, houses, billiard pools, sauna etc. But it's hard to deal with them both. Your personal life and your club. So some people may get excited by buying new stuff and get in trouble with their club. You'll get sucked in by this game but after you are in the top you'll get bored sooner or later. The game is good, but it's almost the same as last year. The thing with that game is that you have to play all the time, because if you leave there a pause you'll forget your players and club special things. The new thing is also the prizes for you. If you are a good manager you will get prizes, like golden Key to the city. There might not be a lot of new stuff but there is a lot of updated things like even more leagues, players, competitions (FIFA Confederations Cup, FIFA U-20 World Cup, plus various international club competitions). Also new thing is a large database containing more than 75,000 historical results from various leagues! A powerful editor is included in the game. There's also a new stadium editor. It's an easy-to-use stadium editor that uses a modular construction system with over 400 elements enables you to build ultra-realistic stadiums. You can create absolutely unique dream stadiums in a matter of minutes. There is a new screen resolution 1280x1024 for a better overview but also other resolutions are also supported. The press conferences and interviews are still part of the game. Now there's a sand clock which tells you how much time you have to answer. Your answer is important because it has effect to your team motivation and to your media status. There is also a new scouting system, which is better than last year. It's better because this year you really have to scout for players. Otherwise the skills of the player you are scouting for are hidden. So scouting is good. Now you can say to your player what you are planning for this season in the dressing-room. Like you can say: "You're playing tomorrow! "And the player motivation increases, but if you don't put him in the game tomorrow the players motivation will suffer.
So here are some of the new features:
Simulation mode (where you can simulate 20 seasons overnight), set up youth camps all over the world (simply choose the country and location), a Hall of Fame for top players, a 24-hour ticker for transfers at the last moment at the and of the transfer window, test matches against your own amateur and youth teams, 20 personal prizes for you as manager (for example the golden Key to the city), new scouting system, dressing-room (Where you talk with your players).
The conclusion is that the game is good and very interesting for the new players, but for the players who have played the last series the game might not be so attractive.