![]() The menu layouts and screens are largely unchanged, tactics are still easy to set up, and you can still breeze through one full season in a few hours.Īh yes, and you’ll still be pestered to spend money on extra in-game credits – perhaps even more often than last year. If you’ve played SM21 before, SM22 is essentially the same game, just with a slightly different paint job. Throughout the game, Virtual Arteta will give you invaluable feedback such as “we should play through the middle”, “our defence is struggling to cope”, and “you should get rid of Aubameyang”. He is slightly more prominent in this year’s game, appearing not just in the tutorial, but also doubling up as your ‘assistant manager’. Give your manager a name, pick a continent to manage in, select your starting club, and you’re on your way.Īrsenal boss Mikel Arteta is back for a second year as brand ambassador. Setting up a new Soccer Manager save is as simple as it always been. However, I’m sure a certain club in Manchester will have questions about why their logo is still in the game… They also have licencing deals with Wolves, Bayer Leverkusen, Internazionale, the Bundesliga, and the SPFL. While there have been questions about Soccer Manager’s use of real players and photos, SM22 have answered them by announcing an official licence with world footballers’ union FIFPro. Good news: Sevilla have a lot of good players. They were met with the usual radio silence from a company who mainly use their social media accounts to post about football wonderkids, rather than the video games they make and are supposed to maintain.ĭespite all that negativity, I will try to review Soccer Manager 2022 on its own merits. To make matters worse, back in January this year, several players tweeted the developers saying they couldn’t log into SMW anymore from mobile apps. They’ve been stuck in a never-ending cycle of neglect for so long – players ask for an SMW update, developers promise an update “very soon”, new update fails to materialise, players get frustrated, rinse and repeat a few months later. Many SMW players have given up hope that their beloved game will ever recover. Indeed, when I logged into my old SMW account for the first time since 2019, I was presented with a huge advert for SM22, as if the game was asking me, “Are you sure you don’t mean to play THIS instead?” SMW is still going today, but it’s now been totally overshadowed by the single-player game – to the extent that it barely gets a mention on Soccer Manager’s website frontpage. Work gradually slowed down before coming to a halt in November 2016, when the now-rebranded Soccer Manager Worlds got its last major update. I was one of them for many years… but when SM launched its single-player series in 2014, the original game went into decline. Soccer Manager started out as a multiplayer game, attracting over a million players at its peak. ![]() They are also a precautionary tale of what can happen when a video game developer decides to put all their efforts into an ambitious new project, at huge expense to their previous product. ![]() For those who aren’t aware, Soccer Manager Ltd are a small independent company from Preston who’ve been going since 2005. Since debuting with Soccer Manager 2015, the series has slowly but steadily improved year-on-year and is now on its eighth edition.īefore I write about SM22, though, I must discuss the developers. Soccer Manager is a series that prides itself on being a fast-paced, dirt-cheap alternative to Football Manager. But does it live up to its potential, or is it facing an early bath? Let’s take a closer look… Soccer Manager 2022 was released last November and can be downloaded from Steam right now (for mobile gamers, it’s also on Google Play and the App Store). I wasn’t too hot on either SM19 or SM20, but I gave a more positive review of SM21, saying that I felt “the developers finally steering this game in the right direction”. Some of you might remember my previous Soccer Manager reviews. For the fourth season in a row, I’ve had a look at the latest edition of the free-to-play Soccer Manager series.
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