Club & Country

The follow-up edition to Codemasters' multi-title soccer franchise (each dedicated to a single team in the UK and continental European football league and featuring unique presentation and other team-specific aspects), the 2005 series is powered by an accelerated game engine and new animation system to deliver faster and more responsive gameplay for precise control on the pitch. With twice the amount of official team content in each game, great skill moves and new game modes including Career, Practice and classic Scenarios (plus new clubs added to the line-up), the new Club Football 2005 range will bring players even closer to the heart of the action and the heart of their team.

Club Football is a soccer series designed to re-create the individual team experience. A total of 17 games released in the Club Football series are tailored to the specific European teams on which they are based, including character facial mapping from each of the 22 position players on the roster. Each game features bespoke content - including media archive clips of great goals and famous victories - and allows fans to add themselves to the 2003/04 starting line-up of their favourite side.

World Soccer puts you in charge of a football club that must work its way up from the third division to the top of the World Soccer League. You manage the lineup, transfers, medical care, scouting, and club finances, including bank loans when necessary. Matches are largely played automatically, with highlights available to follow and substitutions possible at half-time. Long-term success depends on balancing sporting strength with sound financial management.

Cup Football is a manager game where you choose a European team from 40 European teams and try to get them to the cup final and win it.

FIFA Manager 09 is a typical German soccer manager where the player is responsible for the financial and athletic success of his team. As usual the player has a lot of options to set which are located in several menu screens. The main part of the screen is surrounded by statistics screens which tell the most important facts without needing to navigate to the associated menu screen.

FIFA Manager 14: Legacy Edition is a re-release of FIFA Manager 13 with an updated database for the season 2013/2014. New are the licenses for the first leagues of Ukraine, Croatia and Czech Republic and some other licenses, e.g. the German third and fourth league, were removed. All gameplay features which had to be unlocked in FIFA Manager 13 are available from the beginning, a few texts were expanded (text mode, interview questions, etc.) and there is no Live Season anymore.

Ultimate Soccer Manager or USM is an association football management video game serie for MS-DOS, Commodore Amiga and Windows 95, produced by Impressions and distributed by Sierra from 1995 to 1999. The game was a massive hit in Europe (except in Germany, where it was worse received due to some similarities with managers produced by local software houses such as Software 2000 and Ascaron), although it gained little support in Japan. The series was noted for its micromanagement, where the player had to do the job of the team manager and much of that of the chairman, from player training up to bank balance management. Other well-known features were to bung an opposing team for preferential market treatment, rig or betting on the outcome of the players' team matches. Interviews after the match where some answers were printed with different interpretations on the next days' newspaper (the player could reply a question about the game with "It was a game of two halves", and "He amazed us after the game by giving us an insight into the rules of football" would be printed on the newspapers). In all three games, the game always kept the same visual style: the main screen is a bird's eye view of the stadium facility (where clicking on the grass brings the squad selection screen or in the stands for the stadium builder) and all screens are presented like the player was inside an office (TCM 2004 used a similar interface option). To increase the feeling of "being there", tables are accessed via teletext, news from a newspaper and fixtures are available by clicking on a sheet attached to a clipboard. While improving with each game, most features were the same from the start of the series. The game compared favourably in all areas but AI against its leading competitor, Championship Manager. While similar in name, it has no relations with Ultimate Soccer. The second version of the game, USM 2 ran in protected mode, featured a more polished interface (plus teams and players of the 1996-1997 season and also the French and German leagues (although in the last the final name of the players had a letter swapped to avoid legal problems regarding licensing) which could be accessed with different executables. In Germany, a localized version of the game was released under the name "DSF Fussball Manager", DSF being a well-known German TV sports channel.

Premier 2: Superleague is a standard football management game, in which you take charge of a team in the 16 team super-league and aim for league success. You can choose your team and substitutes for each match, with injuries and suspensions to factor in as the season goes on. You can use the substitutes at half-time or later in the matches (which last for 90 seconds of real -time). Between matches you can buy and sell players, each of which have ratings up to 9 for ability and form.

Playability is central to the ethos of Premier Manager and 06/07 offers all football fans, young and old, the most accessible entry point to the management genre.