I'm still not convinced that Football Manager is realistic enough
It finally gives you an insight as to how unrealistic Football Manager is sometimes. If for instance an attacking midfielder on the opposing team comes forward your centre backs will often decide to take it in their own stride to lose the striker they are meant to marking to try to get the ball off the attacking midfielder coming forward. Thus releasing the striker to be alone and with a simple pass and shot, a goal normally happens. This is annoying due to the fact that you have specifically told your centre to stick to the striker and not to veer off and press another player. Thanks to the 3-D engine we get to see this flaw. Furthermore when a ball is cleared by the opposition back to your half you'll often have a stampede of your players charging back to get the ball, often at least 4 of your players. It's just bizarre, it is just not real. Sometimes the whole game can feel like a matter of luck.
Personally I've never really understood how these managerial games can be considered realistic. At the end of the day, there just NOT. It's perhaps the closest thing to becoming a manager, but it doesn't bloody work. There are a lot of things which Football Manager doesn't have which you could do in real life.
And I'm not having a rant at this game because I'm bad at it. I'm at the moment 3rd in the Premier League with Manchester City. Yet despite quite a few wins I've ran out of patience with Football Manager and can't accept it as realistic as people go on about. Certain features are also missing. For instance, in my view there should be an option for varying the space between your defence, midfield and forwards. This would help and the feedback never bloody shuts up about how, 'there's a gap between the defence and midfield which the opposing team could exploit'.
Furthermore there isn't much difference to its previous versions of Football Manager. Having seen and played some previous games in past seasons it grates to see the game similar to previous versions. Nor are there any real new features, the major one being the 3-D match engine which only shows how corrupt Football Manager's match engine is.
I think it's pretty obvious where I stand on this game, just don't bother with it. Waste of money and total waste of time.