Football Manager 2015

Improvements in this edition might not be essential, but it’s still a brilliant game. Simply brilliant. Once again I spend every spare moment either playing it or thinking about it. [13/2014, p.75]

With Football Manager 2015, Sports Interactive brings ahead an evolution started a couple of years ago. The brand new interface gives to the player all the tools that he needs to bring to life a complete managerial experience, while the 3D engine makes use of the motion capture for the first time.

While many games last weeks or months, we know that the Football Manager lasts all year (and sometimes more), but I think this version will be more addictive for lovers of this simulator.

Football managing at its best, perfect for all the fans out there.

Football Manager has increased again in realism through pertinent adjustments. An essential for soccer's fans.

Football Manager 2015 does not have the usual amount of revolutionary new content, but it still is a deep, tremendously enjoyable simulation that keeps the Steam clock running.

A deep and huge simulation that can drain many hours. You have to avoid it if you want to keep some sort of social life.

It's all much more user-friendly now with the new interface. Football Manager 2015 will keep you entertained for hundreds of hours with its big improvements.

It’s not like everything that needs to be improved is touched in one go; nor do we get that brand-new and surprising title. So here we don’t get that ten out of ten rating but Sports Interactive deserve praise for again delivering the best football management simulation around.

Everything that makes the Football Manager series so damned addictive remains completely intact and has been expanded upon in FM2015, but intelligent changes made to navigation and the way data is displayed makes for a much friendlier experience and speeds up seasons considerably.

Football Manager 2015 is still the king of the football management simulators, although a new purchase is not necessarily justified. This year's release focuses on improving the UI and enhances interaction with players, coaches, directors and press. The whole game is the most realistic sports simulation once again and a must for football fans who want to give orders from the bench. The best way to be a successful coach without leaving home.

One thing is certain: Once this game gets you hooked, it will eat away every spare hour you have. The football crazier you are the more you’ll get out of it. But be aware that the new features alone are not necessarily worth it, if you have last years’ version, which serves as the solid foundation for the annual relaunch.

This year, after a couple of issues that have introduced numerous innovations, Football Manager 2015 plays it safe, proposing a new and enjoyable interface and little else.

Football Manager 2015 is a nice refund for an inconsistent 2014 iteration. Sports Interactive takes a gamble with a reshuffled UI, but it clearly pays off as the game becomes more enjoyable to navigate. The manager profile is another great feature that deepen the bond between the player and his team. FM comes closer and closer to perfection.

Football Manager 2015 delivers a solid experience once again. Helping your team reaching the top already was an enjoyable adventure, and this new installment fine-tunes already existing features. Thanks to that, Football Manager feels more complete than ever.

Football Manager 2015 doesn’t take the formula and mix things up too much this time around, but what it has added, gets you even closer to realising your dream of becoming a bonafide football manager. Plus, you can attend the FA Cup final while wearing your Roy Keane pyjamas in the comfort of your own home, and it doesn’t get much better than that.

Football Manager 2015 is the best version in a series that has been peerless for many years. It’s not the kind of overhaul that suggests players of last year’s game desperately need to upgrade, but the hardcore will not be dissatisfied. And if you’re a lapsed fan, then we’ll see you in your suit come cup final day.

Football Manager 2015 brings the new user interface, an extended system of psychology, better communication with the players and coaches and better wrestling engine in the first place. The result is the best game of its kind, which is heavily addictive. We would expect more of the new features and enhancements.

The series has previously brought meaningful and well thought out advancements to improve the game, but this year the impact on the game comes across less aspiring and more awkward, as the company strives to make the most complete management experience a player can have, even if this means bringing along some of the boring parts of the job as well.

The best is still getting better then, but the pace of improvement might need to be addressed.

FM15’s changes tend to contribute to gentle improvement rather than startling disruption, but should do enough to tempt you into starting that managerial journey all over again.

Football Manager, needs strong rivals, just like a serious football team. While the FM isn't the most innovative and most impressive game around, it's still the best football management title.

Assertive: The Sports Interactive lads have had a solid pre-season, I think Football Manager 2015 can really crack on for top honours from here.

Football Manager has always been more than a game, but it is also more than a football product. It's both of these things in equal measure and updates of this quality will ensure that its legacy remains strong within the sport and among its fan base.

Football Manager is about progress, not revolution, which is arguably what its audience wants, and exactly what this year's game provides.

Struggling to break into the first eleven, but has a few new tricks.

Better than last year's version, but only just. Football Manager 2015 sports the usual array of interface, AI and match engine improvements but on a smaller scale than we are used to. As such this year's edition of the definitive football management sim is not the absolute must-buy that it usually is, but it is undoubtedly better than FM 2014 and it will provide hundreds of hours of gameplay to football and gaming fans worldwide.

This game looks new, but behind that pretty face you will find the exact same game as last year. It does have an improved scouting system which makes this a solid football management sim, but we are not a fan of the odd design choices.

Football Manager 15 once again offers a realistic approach in modern football but the messy AI and the clumsy match engine fail to deliver a flawless match- day experience. UI and scouting improvements are a step on the right direction, but the countless interviews and press conferences may tire the player.

This is still a great soccer simulation, but it clearly needs something new and fresh it wants to keep its audience interested.

This game renews itself in an odd way: the interface, which made a lot of progress in the last few years, has gotten a few illogical changes which feel like a few steps back. That being said, there is no better football management game on the market right now.

A far less ambitious sequel than the last two years and most of the headline changes are negative, especially changing your manager into a role-playing character.

Are you ready to shell out for a pricey graphics update? Because as a simulator, Football Manager did not mature at all.

For existing fans there aren’t a lot of compelling reasons to upgrade from last year’s edition, unless you’re really nostalgic for the Graham Taylor approach to football.