Football manager 2021 update upgrade#

You can slam your fists on the tablet or raise your arms in bafflement. Now in Football Manager 2021, along with the questions being far more diverse, you can actively change your body language to better get your point across. Usually, I would either hand these off to my assistant or randomly click through all the questions from the press without a second thought. Press conferences in FM have always been a slog – you receive a few reply options to the questions asked but little else. Not so much realism in terms of player stats or knowledge (that’s always been FM’s strong area) but realism in terms of communication and emotion.

Football manager 2021 update upgrade#

Realism is the biggest upgrade for this version.

The tutorials are excellent and they’re far better, and much less annoying, than in previous games. It can be daunting for newer players – or even those who were big into the titles from a decade or so ago – however, it’s not impossible to get to grips with. Instead, this is an absolute time-sink where every aspect of your team is up for customisation. If you want something more like that, I’d recommend the Touch or Mobile versions. This is no longer a simple game where you pick a team, choose a snazzy formation, spend millions on the world’s finest talent and sit back as the trophies roll in.

Of course, it’s worth starting off by saying this is still the usual Football Manager experience. It is always different with Football Manager though, a game that is truly one of the most ‘bang-for-your-buck’ titles around. We might get a new FIFA installment every September, but the changes are usually minimal and the uproar from fans deafening. Yearly football franchises feel like a slog. Football Manager 2021 is a complete triumph, pushing the already excellent series forward, not necessarily with huge advancements in any particular area but with tweaking, tuning and improving so many different elements.