Football Manager 2009 DEMO *Out Now*

[Rocky]

THE DEMO IS NOW LIVE

The Vanilla demo, which is approx 175MB, will be available for PC or Mac, and available exclusively from the News of the Worlds website, with the files hosted by the nice people at Gameshadow.

It will feature UK English only, language wise, and English and Scottish quickstarts, with no "assets" (such as player pictures, logos, stadiums and pitch textures). You can play for half a season, and continue your saved game when the full game is out.

You can get the vanilla version of the demo (PC or Mac) from www.newsoftheworld.co.uk


The Strawberry demo, which is approx 1GB, will also be available for PC or Mac, and will be available 3 ways via STEAM (our recommended route - but PC only), a torrent file, and a direct download (hosted by the nice people at Gameshadow).

To download the STEAM client, for free, go to www.steampowered.com, where you can read all about STEAM.
Language wise it has - English, Danish, Dutch, French, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish.
Leagues playable (via quickstarts) - England, Scotland, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Brazil, Argentina & Indonesia. So 12, rather than the previously announced 10.

The strawberry version of the demo is available from

STEAM (PC Only) - http://store.steampowered.com/app/10570/
Torrent (PC) - http://torrents.sigames.com:7000/to...rent?D30C836D20282E61500B0D69514669B7DFDA9BF4
Torrent (Mac) - http://torrents.sigames.com:7000/to...rent?A7C6364918933D101B05687A49B68A304DD26BEA
Download (PC) -
http://gameshadow.vo.llnwd.net/o1/lt...fm2009demo.exe
Download (Mac) -
http://gameshadow.vo.llnwd.net/o1/lt...009macdemo.zip

A demo for WWSM will follow next week.

There will also be other versions of the demo available in the coming weeks/months, and I will update this thread as I am allowed to announce them with more info.

The first of these is in Australia, 442 magazine will be covermounting a special exclusive A-League demo of the game, although I do not have a date for the issue of the magazines release as yet (I expect it will be after the release of the game, unfortunately, due to the time it takes to print the discs).]

Downloading it now myself.

 

[ngyc]

nowadays demo are always size at least 1gb =/

 

[Rocky]

I downloaded it in 8 minutes with 20 mbps dsl service.

 

[ngyc]

i wish Malaysia have this kind of connection package at affordable price. 2mb line is cost nearly RM300 per month

 

[Mandieta6]

30 min download, maybe another 10 install, and 20 seconds game loading time, I'm hoping this is an improvement I'll notice with the actual game, too. (downloaded vanilla)

There's a weird glitch where the keyboard seems to be sensitive, making it annoying to type, but in general, game seems really good, I've barely done a week though.

 

[syaz_wan03]

is this mean my pc dont support this game?

(look at the pic below)

 

[Kibe Kru]

30 min download, maybe another 10 install, and 20 seconds game loading time, I'm hoping this is an improvement I'll notice with the actual game, too. (downloaded vanilla)

There's a weird glitch where the keyboard seems to be sensitive, making it annoying to type, but in general, game seems really good, I've barely done a week though.

Game loads fast because it's a quickstart, I guess... I expect a normal game start with a few leagues selected to take as long to start as 08, though I'm hoping they've improved this...

And the keyboard is indeed too sensitive... had to type my name three times...

So far, so good... 3d is ok, though I don't think I'll use it that often. Interview at the start is quite nice, I hope I don't get too many of them as to get bored with the lack of options. Can I go Kinnear on them?

 

[Avalanche]

Can I go Kinnear on them?

Not really, but there is an option to storm out of the press conference if you so choose.

Anyway, it took me significantly longer to install the game after taking 10 minutes to download it. In fact, I had to reinstall it because I hadn't upgraded my DirectX drivers. By the time I had finished installing it the second time around, I did a couple of preseason matches with Aston Villa, and I don't know what to make of the 3D engine. Part of me likes it because I can actually see whats going on during the match, but I still prefer the text option because it keeps me in touch with the game's roots, which I think that SI is starting to significantly stray away from.

 

[Filipower]

Fantastic so far, can't wait for the full thing..


The keyboard sensitivity though, fffffuuuuucccckkkkkk

 

[Johnny_Big]

Keyboard is sh*t, new skin is sh*t.





The rest is awesome.

Any bargains/promising youngsters you guys found so far?

EDIT: Holy sh*t, so many injuries

 

[yoyo913]

I got the vanilla demo, could someone please upload the italy and spain quickstarts for me ?

 

[Mandieta6]

The game is quite addictive but also quite hard, I dunno if it's because the last game I played was 2006, but ******* hell, I've never had such a tough few first weeks in charge. And I'm playing with Chelsea. No one's fit, no one likes me because I'm inexperienced, players aren't blending, excellent players can't pass/cross/dribble and I get maybe 3 shots on goal. And some players have messed up stats, oh and I hate Man City. Other than that, great so far.

Not sure about 3D engine, the match doesn't flow very well. And the new rating system confuses me, it used to be that I have a standard response to every stat, now I dunno what to do. I suck.

I've only managed to sign Arshavin and Huntelaar, being beaten for all of: Mexes, Pepe, Zhirkov, Marcelo, Diego, Srna by other clubs. Srna is apparently top stuff, quite expensive at 18 mi.

Oh, and another thing, was the backroom staff limit always there? Wanted to reduce injury times by getting more guys, couldn't, tried getting more scouts from different bakgrounds and expertise, couldn't, same with coaches.

I'm so going to get relegated.

 

[Mus]

Wow, 3d View really sucks.

Other than that its pretty good, except the 2d seems different as well.

 

[syaz_wan03]

it seems that i cant select 3d view. is it because of my pc spec?
(already enable the 3d view in the preference)

everything looks fine. the skin is not the most friendly-user i guess, but nvm..i can always select fm2008 skin (@ preference)

a lil bit laggy on the match setup. (perhaps, because of my 1.6 processor??)
the 2d view looks diff. & i dun get wtf with the adboards? trying to be fancy maybe??
tv mode is okay.. (with option to view match stat , assistant comment & etc)

the player recommendation at the start of the game is quite good imo.

overall : seems good to me. need to familiarize with the skin & the 'environment' of the game.dun found any bug (yet)
hopefully it will not dissapoint me

 

[Mus]

By the time the game comes out it wont be long before custom skins will be created

 

[drummodino]

Has anybody noticed that in tactics u can't make players run sideways? It's really annoying me cuz i want to play a 3-5-2 formation but my centre backs cant run left and right. It's pissing me off

 

[Alex]

Yeah SI announced earlier that they were getting rid of arrows...They kept the forward and backwards ones, but they have a slightly different function than before. Now it basically means get forward and get back, before it meant where you want them to run to when the team had the ball...

 

[Alex]

Oh BTW. I agree that it's silly though. It does make the game much less flexible, and I didn't think it was possible to make 'cheat tactics' with the old arrows anyway. It seems like a lazy way out for SI. It just means that now we can't tell a player to cut inside, or to make runs across the pitch (which also used to be handy with one of ur strikers, who could run across, drag defence across, and open it up for an Attacking mid, or another striker)

 

[Zlatan]

I just played the demo as far as September and my first impressions is rather good. The 3d engine is as expected not up to it yet, IMO. It's funny, but I still prefer the old 2d engine. It's dissappointing though that still 90% of the one-on-one chances are missed. I remember this beeing a problem in FM 2008 aswell. Other observations include the keyboard sensitivity and when you click 'Go on Holiday' you go to the game status screen and don't go on holiday or anything.
Although I first didn't quite like it, after playing it a bit longer I must say the game did grow on me a bit. I like some of the new features like the press conference etc.

Oh and BTW who's going to beat Tom to making the Screenshot Showoff thread this year? I'm eager to start posting away some screenshots of my own.

 

[Filipower]

The keyboard sensitivity thingy is fixed if you play in Windowed mode... If you don't it sucks, though...