NEED TO KNOW
WHAT IS IT? The latest in SI’s long-running, spreadsheet-heavy sports management sim series
EXPECT TO PAY £45
DEVELOPER Sports Interactive
PUBLISHER Sega
REVIEWED ON Intel Core i7 9700K, 16GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 TI
MULTIPLAYER Yes
LINK footballmanager.com
The very best thing about Football Manager is how much of it exists only in your head. Whether by design or necessity, the series has always presented just enough information on the world of football to inflame your imagination and become notoriously invested. Simple spreadsheets of statistics become human players you feel actual emotional responses to. A menu showing the past winners of a particular domestic trophy makes your back straighten with pride. And the very best thing about Football Manager 2024 is that its new features deepen, rather than disrupt, that fantasy.
What’s new this year? Does it suddenly look like , or use Unreal Engine? Don’t be silly. This is the same yin-yang of information-heavy menu screens and text-based interactions, giving way periodically to a 3D match engine where your tactical creations play out on the pitch. It’s
