![]() ![]() FIFA is the 800 pound gorilla, no doubt, but Pro Evolution continues to nip at their heels through a combination of the strength of their own offering combined with EA's deceptive monetization of modes like Ultimate Team, nickel and diming players long after paying the full AAA retail price for the game to begin with.Īnd then there is Football Manager 2020. ![]() The one sport that seems to break this mold is soccer. There isn't much choice for baseball outside of The Show, nothing for American football besides Madden, NBA 2K is the choice for basketball, etc. You're not going to change your team or fanhood in any one off season, nor are you likely going to give up on your favorite sports video game.Ĭompounding this situation is the fact that competition across the various sporting genres has dwindled from a once-thriving market to a state where there seems to be a single titan dominating each sport. It's all just part of the cost of admission for following the sports games, not unlike following the sports themselves. Sports game makers have been combating this perception for some time, but if you dig deeper into the new features each touts year on year, you find many features take more than one cycle to iron out the kinks and enter the series half-baked in their first iterations. Slaves to the annual sporting calendar of the real life counterparts they emulate, most are only able to offer incremental changes to the titles given the reduced development cycle to match. Quite frankly, fans of sports series are going to be buying the yearly update no matter what new features or added or omitted, no matter what the reviews say, and know they are often getting little more than a roster update. Either way, we should know more once the beta version becomes available around two weeks before the title's launch on November 19.Sports games tend to operate in a bit of an artificial niche within the gaming ecosystem. However, in games belonging to the tactical management/simulation genre, graphical improvements are often not the foremost of considerations, and players instead focus much more on how the gameplay has shaped up over the course of the past year. One of the only graphical features highlighted in the gameplay video mentioned above is 'Pitch environment updates', something which may seem quite minor given that this is a separate entry to the series, demanding prices close to what one would expect from AAA titles in the current gaming era. ![]() Some Football Manager fans have expressed doubts over the significance of the additions being made in the latest edition. For example, viewing matches with 3D player models hasn't been possible in the past on Football Manager Mobile games. ![]() However, going by previous iterations in these series, Football Manager 2020 Touch should offer an experience closer to the PC-only version. Sports Interactive notes that the latter and the former will not differ much in terms of their content, and instead, only in terms of their availability on different platforms. There's also a Touch variant that is offered on all three platforms, PC, iOS, and Android. As one would expect, although the base gameplay experience would be about the same, the amount of content and playstyle flexibility available for players on the mobile version will be quite limited in comparison to the much more expansive PC-only version. Just to clarify, the version that will be released solely for Android and iOS will be known as Football Manager 2020 Mobile. ![]()
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