How revolutionary is a revolution?

[ajani]

The only thing that would impress me and get me really excited would be a tactical/training revamp... I think that is the great step forward.

Much more detailed system where you have more options of what to do with players on the pitch.

[Suzie MUFC]

The only thing that would impress me and get me really excited would be a tactical/training revamp... I think that is the great step forward.

Much more detailed system where you have more options of what to do with players on the pitch.

Seconded. Along with a tweaked, fixed and solid match engine (if the one in FML is really that good, then I'll go with that!), this would be a pretty good turn for FM09 as these elements are the core of football management.

[Bodis]

.....maybe it just means they've added the Cuban leagues

[hargreavesisgod]

What if they added a bunch of old databases, giving you the ability to pick up and use the current match engine in certain situations. The whole Scenerio board basically being implemented in the game. have 98/99 rosters in and have challenges and stuff e.g Winning the Treble with United, keeping Barnsley up. ALright maybe not the challenge thing, but those would be options you would have the options of doing. I would certainly consider that a revoloution if not a licensing nightmare.

[Bodis]

What if they added a bunch of old databases, giving you the ability to pick up and use the current match engine in certain situations. The whole Scenerio board basically being implemented in the game. have 98/99 rosters in and have challenges and stuff e.g Winning the Treble with United, keeping Barnsley up. ALright maybe not the challenge thing, but those would be options you would have the options of doing. I would certainly consider that a revoloution if not a licensing nightmare.

And a research nightmare as well.

[hargreavesisgod]

Indeed it would be quite difficult, but peerhaps just certain tournaments then? World Cups and what not? I'd love nothing more than getting the chance to bring football home in 96, or go back and do it again in 66.

[Super Bladesman]

There is so much of the interface from FML that needs to come over to FM. Custom squad views and filters ftw.

[DaveRH]

tbh looking at things another way: What is likely to have stayed the same? What if every single module has had a major overhaul?

[vladislav19]

If it's 3D, it better be "Sensible Soccer" style graphics / players. That way we could still have a whole pitch, overhead view... Only slightly more idea what was going on.

Darn, it would be majorly sweet if they did introduce Sensible Soccer-like graphics. That would be a massive step forward for me. Heck, thinking about it makes an FM-SS marriage seem like the most obviously good idea ever.

I concur on the snooping around tactics, that seems like the likeliest ground for this revolution.

[backpackant]

The new features are:

A 3-D match engine, better press interraction, players dying on the pitch, car crashes, the ability to spend your money on hookers and a yacht, board confidence fixed, agents throwing players at you, press conferences, streakers (in the 3D engine), war breaking out in unstable regions (meaning your players get called up for national service), aliens landing, last-minute goal conspiracies, fixed cup draws, ref bribing, tapping up players and the ability to ban the BBC from interviews because they accused you of being a bit naughty.

I know all this is true cos my cousin had a dream about it and put it on his blog: http://www.madeupcrazystuff.com/

[Dimony]

An FM that doesn't need a patch to be playable.

[DaveRH]

I know all this is true cos my cousin had a dream about it and put it on his blog: http://www.madeupcrazystuff.com/

I was really hoping that that was a real website.

[backpackant]

I orginally had www.madeupcrap.com, but that IS a real website.

[someguy]

Forgive my ignorance but isn't there someway you can play people online on the regular game? Not throughout a season and all that, but a sperate mode that allows you to use your team that you have created in the normal game to play mini tournamants against real online gamers. Oh yeah, without charging any subscription fee for the privalige, like online pro evo and fifa. If there isn't maybe somthing like that will be added.

Any Ideas on this one

[Bodis]

Any Ideas on this one

Not available currently no.

[KakaKaka]

Link to said argentine fella?

[Ter]

http://www.footballmanager.net/en/index.html

[Respected_Boss]

What if the last game was the biggest and fastest selling game that SI have ever made and the number of moaners only went up slightly?

How quickly you forget the pre patch FM 2008 we all bought last year. Its the only copy of FM/CM i ever gave away, and then reverted back to 07

[KakaKaka]

Oh right, i failed to link the two. Seen this picture before but was expecting a trailer featuring MAradona or sometihng =D

[Dazza]

The revolution will be a complete circle and will revolve around a central point errr maybe I dont actually know but at a guess tomorrow we will have a little light on the subject

[Petros7]

How quickly you forget the pre patch FM 2008 we all bought last year. Its the only copy of FM/CM i ever gave away, and then reverted back to 07

Why would I want to forget FM2008 (pre or after patch)?

Ever since the release of FM2008 the only break I've had from it was when I went to Greece at Easter cos my sister had a baby. It's the only copy of FM/CM that has ever had that effect on me (and I've played every copy since 1991).

By the way, my brother in Germany (to whom I send a copy every year) is still playing FM2008 in its pre-patch state, as he can't afford the internet, so obviously he must be happy enough - right?

[TeediuS]

first thing i thought of with the revamped tactics, is maybe you can directly set tactics on the 2d pitch?

[Archy-91]

Surely 3d would be an EVOLUTION, i.e, a natural progression. Revolution is something different altogether, probably an overhaul of most of the game. SI took a fair amount of stick for FM08 (which I loved btw) because it was a slightly touched up version of 07. I'm expecting something completely new, with extra attention on tactics, training and transfers. I also think interaction will have recieved a revamp, with players and with the board. And possibly with coaching staff but I'm not that hopefull. I would like them to do more with the career game option, which, from what I can tell, is becoming more and more popular, but I doubt they'll have went that far.

But you never know with SI, so I'd be willing to bet that in 24 hours, we'll all be on here, saying, "I should have KNOWN that's what they'd do."

[hufton]

I'd be quite happy with a few changes. Board expectations should definitely be changed to be more realistic (Spurs winning the league inside 3 years?) and should be negotiable before you accept a job offer. The transfer system should be changed and I'd prefer newgens to come through as decent players rather than with the facegen thing. I also find some of the finances aren't what they could be. With player and media interaction I can't see any changes being made that wouldn't become repetitive after a while, and I'd only like the 3D match engine if they can do it right, unlike the first attempt that CM made which was awful.

[deefus]

The only revolution I'm hoping for is a totally revamped transfer system, as the current one with its stupid negotiations doesn't seem to have been updated for a long while.

[David Johnston]

The revolution is going to be that the tactics system has been completely changed to give a whole new feel to the games. No more sliders, something completely different that is actually understandable and more in touch with reality.

That's what I think anyway.