Football Manager 2010
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| Developer(s) | Sports Interactive |
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| Publisher(s) | Sega |
| Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, PlayStation Portable |
| Release | PC, Mac |
| Genre(s) | Sports, Simulation |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, Multiplayer |
Football Manager 2010 (abbreviated to Football Manager 10 or FM10) is a football manager simulation video game. It was released on PC, Mac and PlayStation Portable on 30 October 2009.[3] It is also available for digital download on Steam.[4] The game demo was released on 14 October 2009.[5]
New features
The game's developers have expanded on the 3D match engine first introduced in Football Manager 2009, with more animations, stadia, and even pitch degradation. There will be the ability to "shout" from the touchline to change tactics. The feedback from assistant managers and backroom staff has also seen considerable improvement.
The database editor has also received an upgrade, the stand-out feature of which is the option to add new divisions to existing leagues or to add entirely new leagues to a game database. Users can then, for example, make the English league system fully playable right down to its lowest tier, making it the first football management game capable of doing so, or they could make a league for a nation whose league is not normally playable, or even make their own entirely new league, such as a "super league".
It has been made clear by the developers that some features will be kept secret and discovered only when playing the demo and full game, as has been the case for the last few releases of the series.
Demo
The demo was released in two "flavours": "Vanilla", which was a stripped down version with a limited number of players; and "Strawberry", which was a full-fledged game with most of the features that would be on the final game. Both versions of the demo were limited to half-a-season of gameplay. The demo was released on 14 October 2009.
Playable leagues and club cups
Although the following list below is the leagues available immediately from Installing the game, the editor allows the players to add any league to the game, as well as the creation of new ones
1 - Germany's national team is not allowed to be included in the game due to licensing rights being owned by EA Sports' "FIFA" series and Konami's Pro Evolution Soccer, whilst the Japanese J-League and the Japanese national team are not allowed in the game at all due to Konami's purchase of the exclusive rights for their Pro Evolution Soccer series.