Recent reviews by Cold Stone

Incredible, by using my enormous powers of persuasion I managed to bring the best players in the world to my newly created 5th division club. All they wanted was a salary of 1 euro per week and a chance to conquer the football world with me.

Every now and then they get a bit unhappy, but with one push of a button I give them a virtual happy pill and everything is fine again.

I always have fun playing with the in-game editor! absolute +1 for the editor

Unfortunately a -2 for the high unnecessary money-squeezing pricing. So ending with a negative score..

Just like every year i would recommend this game..
but this review is for the steam awards.. more info will be added later after i played more ;)

Like every year another good FM.
and like every year it is eating playtime hours faster then i have initially intended :)

Great Story, Great graphics, just a beautifull game for both the storyplayers, the free roamers or every other type of player you are. I consider this one of the must have played titles!

Great game!: Like with every FM in the past year's i am really enjoying this game.
And i definitely recommend this years version!
As Football Manager is a game that returns every year i am only going to name a few pros en cons i noticed in this years edition.


-Youth development center:
This years edition updated the youth development center, putting your B squad and under 19's in a new tab giving fast information on development of the players. Also the staff tasks can be delegated so that your staff will send players on loan if that would benefit there development.
Also the youth intake is now more random (different dates instead of set dates for a country) making scouting more fun but also giving you more basic insights into your youth intake in the comming periode.


-Clubvision
if you take over management of a club you will discuss and agree with the board to set a clubvision for the upcomming 5 years, this will be growing as you progress over the seasons, this gives you more power as you can discuss the way you want to develop your team, but also will effect the team you might want to go to, as certain boards will prefere attacking football and some would prefere defending... So dont play offensive attacking football if you agreed on a defensive strategy.


-Players careerplanning
Same as setting a clubvision you now get to add a careerplanning as you discuss a contract with a player telling them not only there role for this season but also discuss there growthpath in order to develope them into regular players. This is a nice option if you focus on attracting young talents, but you will need to watch your setup, promissing 30 players a first 11 spot in the next 3 years might get some unhappy players in the seasons to come.


-Overall playing experience
The overall playing experience has been improved making the look and feel alot more interactive, also by delegating tasks to your staff you get to play the game in a smooth way matching your playstyle. Basicly its an easy way to burn some playing hours :)


-Matchengine (and watching the game)
Like every year there are some small issues with the match engine making a few matches pretty frustrated.
overall i think alot of has been fixed but i have seen some weird things like:
1) two attacking players of the oponent running into each other (none of my players in sight) outside the 16 and i ended up getting a penalty againt me thanks to the VAR, how?
2) a pure goal was made, the ball rolled back out of the goal keeper picked it up and the game went on like nothing happend.
Those are the two weirdes things in 100 hours of play so i dont really worry about it.


-incorrect text (but this might be a language thing as i play with the game on dutch)
Every now and then there are speech options wich are incorrect, stating now that we are behind (eventhough we are in front) or like stating they won there home game eventhough the first game was away.. It seems these issues do not effect the game and are pure some text issues, but its a small issue..

Its a Free game and i was hoping it would be a nice free short term replacement from the FootballManager franchise, sadly i got disappointed. 15 hours in i decided this game wasnt for me.

Pro's:
-The Game runs pretty fast pased (about 3 to 4 hours a season)
-Youth intake is nice (you get a constant inflow of youth during the season)
-increasing Training, Scouting, Merchandise, Youth by upgrading (plus some nice interface) is a nice extra

Cons:
-Tactics are limited
-Limited filtering on playersearch and attributes
-Player attributes dont seem to matter and you actually have like a random win/draw/loss (lots of goals)
After 4 seasons i replaced my barcelona A-squad (sold them all) with youth all ranging in the 70 ratings and still ended up second in the season.
-BUGS and misinformation. Transfer offers never show up, after some time it says transferoffer expired as there was no responce... players who start in the first 11 complain about not getting enough playtime?

Worst part is the constant nagging telling you to spend money. having 100mil+ in the bank and still you get messages stating you need money buy now. finances are running low buy now. popups trying to get you to buy vip.

Doctor told me to go out and enjoy nature.. so i bought this game.. Nice walking simulator takes you into a very nice nature scenery with relaxing nature sounds and even gives an option to shoot some guns.

I actually regret buying it this late..
Can recommend for sure!!

If you like FM, you will like this one, played off and on in the last versions but for some reason this version got me 'addicted' to a single save again..

didnt feel much weird stuff happen except for like 1 match a season with high scores like 6-4 but as long as its once a season that pretty nice.

only missed one thing thats 'rebelling', got a new clubcontract and as part of the deal would get an affiliate club, after siging the board canceld the new affiliate, as that was part of the contract is should be possible as it would be a breach of contract. thing is you only get informed but cant react to it..

but for the rest Great game :)

Really nice game, i enjoyed playing this one.
Interresting storyline wich is combined with some nice effect (sounds and visual)
Game looks nice and plays real smooth. only points of critic would be the 'fighting system' wich is pretty much the same once you know the moves. plus every now and then the walking some area's makes the game feel slow paced (but it really wasnt as i still managed to miss collecting several stones...

good game, would recommend :)

Very awesome game if you love Sniping. wil give it 9/10

In my opinion this is the best game of the sniper elite franchise so far.
The higher difficulty you play the more authentic it becomes.
Good graphics and some nice missions. AI is pretty nice, reacting to sounds, movement and really go for searching and flanking if discoverd. Great Game for SP and COOP.

Only downside is the fact that MP is kinda death.