

For more than a decade these have been organised as a kind of multiple-choice set of responses. Hello VARness my old friend.Īrguably the largest change is to interactions, the collective name Sports Interactive gives to all of the conversations, meetings, and the like that you'll have throughout the game. The improvement over FM21 is actually quite dramatic. In Football Manager, the UI is the game, and so while the decision to implement so many UI-focused changes at once is largely a response to the pandemic, the result is anything by a stop-gap. Those new features have a cosmetic impact, yes, but part of what makes this series so special is its mastery over the user experience. Almost all of them tie into your perception of the game and how you interact with it, from new press conferences, to new conversations, to new data visuals and a shake up to matchday presentation, and so a cursory look might leave you with the impression that FM21 is FM20 with some extra finesse. On the surface this year's headline changes seem largely cosmetic. Much of it down to that incredible closeness to the real thing. The team at Sports Interactive has had to weather an especially turbulent year, what with football itself being as disrupted as the studio trying to simulate it, but nonetheless they've excelled with FM21. With FM21 the two are closer than ever and, Klopp-inflicted drubbings aside, the result is pretty special. Touch and Mobile versions on phones and tablets.īut that's football! And that's Football Manager.
