Well as we know Football Manager 2009 (FM09) is due to be released in roughly four weeks so to celebrate here at thefootymanager.com we have decided to have a little competition. We have three copies of the new game to give away to the fantastic readers of the site.
How can I participate?
Well that is the easy part. All you have to do is comment in this article what you are looking forward to most in Football Manager 2009. It can be three words, a sentance, a paragraph it’s totally up to you. We’ll then randomly pick the winners from the comments in this thread and notify you by email if you are one of the three lucky winners!
Please notice that:
- participants can post comments until the 13th of November 2009. The comments will be closed on the 14th of November at 00:01 GMT.
- the winners will be determined by a random generator;
- make sure that you fill your e-mail in the comment field correctly, so we can contact you afterwards.
What can I Win?
Football Manager 2009′s match engine has seen more testing than ever before having been extensively beta tested in Football Manager Live for the past year.
The famous Football Manager match engine can now be viewed in full 3D with motion captured animations for the players. Sports Interactive has been working on the 3D match engine for nearly 3 years with the support of SEGA Japan’s Virtua Striker team who provided the motion capture data and some of the animations. You can now watch your matches in 3D from multiple camera angles and re-watch any part of the match by fast forwarding and rewinding the action using a new match time bar that flags the key moments in the game. The old 2D view of the match engine is still there, especially for those people whose computers aren’t powerful enough to take advantage of the 3D views.
As a result of usability testing on Football Manager 2008, this year sees widescreen support for the game for the first time, as well as lots of tweaks to the user interface for easier navigation.
Football Manager 2009 is fully updated for the new 2008/09 football season with all the latest league, club and player data, featuring over 5,000 playable clubs from over 50 countries, and around 350,000 players and staff from around the world, drawn fresh from the famous Sports Interactive database.
Sports Interactive have worked hard to reflect the greater impact the media has been having in recent years on the world of football, in the in-game dealings with the press. The game now features more news stories, more detail and greater media interaction than ever before, creating an even more realistic simulation of the football world.
When Will I Get My Prize?
Well the game is being released on the 14th November so we’ll select the winners and get the prizes sent out on that day. You should get the game through your letterbox on the 15th (the day after release) just in time for the weekend of FM09 abuse.
So spread the word of the competition to your friends, other websites and most importantly comment yourself to be in with a shout of winning.
The competition has now closed folks so the winners will be hearing from us in the next 24 hours!
Good luck, thefootymanager.com Team!
UPDATE – Congratulations to Paul Murrey, Carl Lightfoot and Frank Keegan our competition winners. Look out for more competitions in the near future.
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I’m looking forward to the 3D matches!
Well I just wanna be a female manager in FM09
FM09 is gonna be great! Can I win????
I’m looking forward to see the stats of some up and coming players (Nasri, Babel, Dos Santos, Bojan, etc) as well as how some of the players who had exceptional seasons last year are rated. Should be good.
I’m looking forward to updated players stats and hopefully the ability to actually sell players!
Can I get a copy please? I think it’s going to kick ass!
3D matches for me!
Definately the new 3d match engine and the better replay function
improved transfers for me!
3D matches for me the better transfers! Can’t wait.
im looking forward to the new 3d engine an the media interference been waitin for better media responses for a while now cant wait till its released
cumon whats not to b lookin forward to it its football manager 2009 bring it on
im lookin forward to everything! love the game cant wait!
This game looks awesome. 3D hopefully won’t flop and I hoping for lots of little changes that make a big difference.
I’m looking forward to this!
I’m looking forward to the 3D pitch also but the things im waiting the most for are
Distance tracker- shows how much your player’s have run and how hard are they working. (In kilometers or miles)
Improved team reports- Your assistant manager will prepare detailed team reports and will higlight the weakness in the squad and suggest player’s you may buy to strengthen.
Feeder Clubs- Once you have gained the trust of your Boardroom you can ask the board for a SPECIFIC feeder club/parent club!
Ability to Loan players will be improved. Specific details can be sent to clubs asking them to loan players.
Some of the new features
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Looking forward to the new match engine and new database of players.
I’m most lookign forward to the 3D match engine, also looking forward tot the increased media scrutiny! Cant wait!
3D match engine and new wonderkids!
i’m looking forward to the updated new wonderkid and the change being made from the latest edition
I’m looking forward to managing a footy team, what else
I am looking forward to the improved fiancial aspect of the game, this is something that has been lacking for years and finally SI are listening to their game players. Over the past it is always been the case of the so called big 4 getting the most money in the transfer fund even if in real life they clearly dont have that much cash to spend, at last my beloved everton will have some cash to spend in the game COYB
looking forward to the 3D engine for sure.
at last i’ll be able to properly judge my players and what i want them to do. sick of not knowing whether a ball was crossed or just passed along the ground by a winger, or whether my attackers are booting the ball way off target or simply missing by inches.
also, i am really looking forward to taking my serbian side through the qualifications and on to south africa for 2010 WC for some just desserts after years of absence from the world stage.
and finally…..i have been way to nervous of managing my club, my RED STAR BELGRADE, in any of the previous issues of the game. it is too holy, too sacred to be meddled with by a lowly fan. but maybe just maybe if the game is as good as i’m hoping it can be, i will enter into service of the HEROES, and justify our champions cup from ’91 in Bari.
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I’m looking forward t 3d matches like everybody else i guess…
And another thing is press and update att. for romanian players and teams! Gabi Muresan and Dubarbier are awesome! have you watched CFR Cluj games in Champions League?
I dunno if i should put this here but… there are some matches when you have tons of shoots and they have one or two and you lose.(i’m not saying that doesn’t happen once in a while in real-life, but it happes once in a while not every match:D) cheers!!! CAN’T WAIT!!!
can not wait for 09 to come out been a big fan of the football manager
family got 06,07,08 so i am counting down the days for the release 09.
the 3d match engine will make this game the best ever
Cant wait for the 3D match engine!
I bet it’ll be one of the best games ever! Actually see the goals!
This will be amazing! Yes, I am a girl, and like football.
Can’t wait. Plus, great site!
If I see another post starting with “I’m looking forward to” then I might just do nothing about it and probably forget what I just wrote.
I’m looking forward to the 3D match engine and the more in depth media.
Play with African Warriors, who? I hear you say?
looking forward to the 3d matches and better finanances/transfers!
This game is gonna be amazing. I cant wait to take over Newcastle with the hopes and dreams of finally bringing the Toon Army some silverware. Then I get sacked after 18 months, cant find a job, eventually take over something in League One cause thats all that will hire me. Meanwhile, my friends tell me how many trophies theyve won and how many bad transfers Ive made!
O yea.. the 3D will be awesome too.
i’m looking forward to winning the treble with blackburn rovers
Hope the 3D match engine doesn’t involve there only being like 3 types of diff ways of striking the ball…….can’t wait to get it!!
I really hope FM09 won’t have as many bugs as the previous years, but very much looking forward to it!
I hope the new match engine works well and the changes made to the progression of young players makes the game more realistic than FY08.
Looking forward to it…
The 3D option looks great. Can’t wait!
No way… 3D… even more hours in virtual world…
i think the new 3d match engine will make this the best football game on all platforms.
i would love to play as a female manager
i wanna see the 3D Match Engine, i’m not sure i will use it though, it may slow down even more my cpu..anyway it looks great.
Very nice competition! I would like even to participate too
While FM 2009 is on the way – read about its new features
Looking forward to challenging for a European place with Sunderland. Hopefully SI will have noticed that Sunderland have quite a bit money, and put this into the game. The improved media interface should be good to.
I bought a new PC just for this one…. Can’t wait for Fm 2009… The 3D/finances/new moves learning as well as a bug free(as in fm2008) are the things i’m looking more forward to
Im really looking forward to the new transfer system and the 3d match engine sound like a great idea im looking forward to FM09 soooo much.
im really looking forward to the 3d match engine. cant wait
Champ manager is the veteran of footy manager games, will never be forgotten – HOWEVER…
Footy manager is the cutting edge future of many peoples lives which it takes over! especially mine! it is the Cristiano Ronaldo of the manager games
Will eventually overtake every record going!
I am dreading the release of FM09. My wife hates it when i spend more time playing FM08 than I do with her. Plus we have our first baby due soon. Its torture knowing the game is going to be so good and that I will have to grow up and stop playing it so much! Although I will still try and fit it in my life even if it means waking up in the middle of the night for a few hours gametime!
Does this new feature have up to date Welsh Premier League players? hope so!!!! cant wait for this one.
Fingers and toes crossed.