Overall, Football Manager 2016 is definitely an improvement over last year's submission. It does a nice job of catering to those who want a faster-paced experience, whilst offering those who want to micro-manage every possible aspect of the game, a perfect sandbox with which to scratch that itch. Moreover, Sports Interactive has seemingly brought both...
Football Manager 20162015
Football Manager 2016
2015 Sega Games81Great
Playtime
MarathonTypically 500 hours
Playable on
Game modes
Details
- Launch
- November 13, 2015
- Developer
- Sports Interactive
- Publisher
- Sega Games
- Themes
- -
Overview
Football Manager is the most realistic, in-depth and immersive football management simulation available – it’s the closest thing to doing the job for real. Taking control of any squad from more than 50 countries across the world, you decide who plays and who sits on the bench, deal with the media and solve player problems. You're in total control of tactics, team-talks, substitutions and pitch-side instructions as you follow the match live with the acclaimed 3D match engine.
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Reception
Press81
Great- Metacritic81from 36 reviews
- OpenCritic82from 22 reviews
The most educational and exhaustive edition yet
A solid game which you'll find plenty of reason to invest into if you are a fan of soccer text-sims.
Football Manager 2016 makes accessing the more complex features easier: it's both deeper and more user friendly.
The lack of improvements in areas that have stagnated, most notably dealings with the media and team talks, is frustrating though. There are seeds of good ideas in the drift toward an RPG-like system of relationships and stats, but they're slim and seem half-conceived in some areas. In fact, where the game is improved it may well benefit in Touch (formerly...