No Demo for FM2006

[mjmaskrey]

Some bad news for fans :(

Sports Interactive have confirmed that they will be unable to release a demo for Football Manager 2006 through the Xbox Live Marketplace or with any Xbox 360 magazines.

The football management sim has a cult following amongst football fans throughout the world and this news will come as a major disappointment to them.

Miles Jacobsen, Managing Director of Sports Interactive said: "Unfortunately we found out yesterday that, for reasons very much beyond our control, and despite us doing a lot of work on it, we are going to be unable to provide a demo through marketplace or Xbox magazines.

We're very disappointed with this, but there is nothing we can do about it."

Football Manager 2006 will be a region-free release and is available in Europe for the Xbox 360 from April 13th 2006.

:)

[JJBDude]

Doesn't bother me, I own the game on PC and already know what it is like. Therefore I know what to expect and I know it will be great, however if the console version of the game is different to the PC version then maybe I will be disappointed in not being able to download a demo.

[bingo83]

I could never fathom the appeal of these games. My brother used to be addicted to them, he would sit for hours on end playing them.

[AfroJoe]

I'm like that as well, although I'm really not sure why.

Football Manager games, despite being so incredibly simple, are absolutely brilliant. Once you get into a game, you can never stop playing it.

[RiLu@]

When i saw the achie, list it made me sad this game should had been out 2nd december.
spring is coming up theres no reason to sit inside all the time!!!

[phatmuther]

ah yes, very addictive.
champ manager was good on the xbox, spent many a late night on that.
fm2006 should be good though, looking forward to it

[WACCOE]

Football Managers are NOTHING compared to the old Champ Mans. NOTHING! :D


Have they gave a reason why they aren't releasing one?

[gambeler]

well said thornbag i dunno its just sumfin about them that made them great. 2005 woz a real let down so unrealistic but sayin that 2006 should (key word should) b great cant wait. im alittle disapointed that there aint no demo woz looking forward to one

[WACCOE]

Yeah, they've deffo dropped the last couple of years since FM has come out. But Champ Man 4 was just the dogs for me. :D

[backin-strachan]

You cant really have a football manger demo though can you?

[mjmaskrey]

Of course you can, just put a time restriction on it...so 15 or 30 mins and the demo quits out....easy!

:)

[cazbhoy]

They had one on pc were you did a quickstart league from a certain country then managed a team for half a season. Not really bothered about there being a demo since I have the pc version to hold me over untill this comes out