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Image credit:Sports Interactive
Image credit:Sports Interactive
The Football Manager series has been around for decades, each of its yearly entries gradually building upon its core systems until it became the mixture of deep simulation and banal press conference screens it is today.Football Manager 2025is different: a fresh start for the series, built upon a new engine, which Sports Interactive are at pains to say will not immediately be as rich or robust as its predecessor.
It now has a release date: November 26th.
The biggest change is under the hood: Sports Interactive have traded their own proprietary engine for Unity, with the aim of upgrading the quality of 3D match engine, but also to speed up development of new features in a series that sometimes felt stagnant.
The implication is that Football Manager 2025 is a reset, or a short-term step backwards, to pave the way for greater and faster steps forward in future. In practical terms, it means Football Manager 2025 doesn’t have some features players might be used to from recent iterations. No international management, no data chalkboard, no Create-a-Club, Challenge mode, Versus mode or Fantasy Draft.
What theFootball Manager 2025 Steam pagesays it will have is the Premier League license for the first time, women’s football for the first time, more playable leagues and nations than ever, a brand new UI, and the “biggest technical and visual advancement for a generation.”
Or players could just keep playing FM2024. Someone will make a database update, I’m sure. We’ll find out which way things go come November 26th.
