ProZone is a great tactical tool, but you'll rarely need to use it. This great new feature helps you keep track of the morale and fitness levels of your players, along with any tactical changes that your opponents make. There's also a brand new overlay that appears during match highlights. Navigation has also been improved, with a wealth of information at your fingertips and most screens just one or two mouse clicks away. Transfer negotiations have been improved since last year, allowing for more flexibility and haggling, ensuring that wheeling and dealing is now more gratifying than ever before. Granted, it's not the most realistic of approaches, but if you've always wanted to fill your team with superstars, you can. The extra cash that this generates perfectly complements a transfer system that actually gives you a fighting chance of buying the players you want (unlike in FM). While success may be slightly harder to come by when managing smaller teams, at no point will you feel like your tactical talents are being tested to the max, meaning that if you're looking for an easier, less detailed and more accessible version of Football Manager, you could well have found your match here.Īfter choosing your team (if you like you can simultaneously manage a national team), you're given the option of boosting your transfer funds with a Club Benefactor feature. Take control of one of the world's larger clubs and chances are, you'll be amassing trophies in no time.

While CM2008 is rooted in reality (its extensive collection of leagues and accurate player stats are testament to that), its team building and strategic depth are relatively shallow compared to FM. If you're looking for a hardcore management experience then you may as well stop reading right now, because you won't find it here. Football Manager 2008 remains superior to Championship Manager 2008 in virtually every department, possessing a level of detail and realism that the CM series simply can't compete with, hardly surprising when you consider that Sports Interactive has had an almost fifteen year head start over Beautiful Game Studios.īut how about we approach this from a slightly different angle? No, CM2008 can't go toe to toe with its greatest rival in a straight scrap - most notably when it comes to realism - but what it can do is offer you something a little different, a little easier, something a little more instantly gratifying.

Football Manager or Championship Manager? If we were to judge these two on merit and quality alone, then the choice would be simple.

Cm 2008 Editor