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It's a button that Codemasters is happy to push. The 360 menu system is easy to use and makes sense even after just a few minutes.

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Perhaps it just needs to get the important aesthetic points right - like a full FIFPro licence, which is now in place, so that all the player names are accurate. Still, he jokes that LMA lacks 'the Iranian third division', and points out that there are teams and players from 51 countries (albeit with only eight playable national league structures) compared to FM's incredibly vast database, but the question posed seems to be how much value is there in that detail? Sales suggest that LMA, which makes a big thing of TV-like presentation, customisable manager appearance and includes a fantasy team option, allowing you to create your own dream line-up and even upload it for other people to play against, is a welcome alternative for many.

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Like LMA 2006, 2007 will offer an 'Expert' difficulty level that shrouds certain elements in uncertainty, like information on your opponents, allowing you to take more of an interest in things if you want to develop actual management acumen.Ĭoupled with the extra benefits wrought from the Xbox 360's enhanced processing power and developing the PC version of the game in-house, it gives the team the opportunity to take on Football Manager a bit more directly - although Jennings is at pains to point out that the comparison is still a little unfair on Sports Interactive's opus, which he admits is far more detailed. It's part of Codemasters' drive to enhance LMA's reputation as a well-presented, easy to use football management game with optional depth. It's not exactly a feng shui simulation, and there's no Aston Villa option to sneak a journalist in and then release a player-statement criticising the chairman, but there's depth where there was little before. You can even adopt a Clive Woodward mentality and redevelop your training facilities completely, which will have a significant effect on your players' morale and performance. You can try out any tactics you have in mind for upcoming clashes by scouting out the opposition and then getting the B- or youth team to play that way against you. You can encourage players to focus on specific areas, like the wings for example.

The training aspects of the game have been worked on significantly.' Changes made from the touchline influence play. They actually have a wide variety of stats now instead of one overall mark out of ten - their intelligence and ability to judge players, their financial acumen and things like that. 'We've upgraded the stats system for all of your staff. 'It was a well reported flaw in the last version of the game,' Jennings concedes. In terms of impact, it was LMA 2006's Calciopoli. They'd encourage your centre-forwards to work on their defensive skills, which were obviously a bit rubbish, to the detriment of their striking ability and eventual transfer value. The main problem was that the backroom staff were lousy. It was less daunting than the genre-leading Football Manager series, which we liked, built from the ground up for console control, and perfectly happy to let you hand off the less exciting elements of day-to-day football management to your backroom staff.

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Last year, we gave LMA Manager 2006 on PS2 and Xbox a bit of a kicking. It's not the only time the LMA team has been a bit annoyed about docked points. The poor old game, in its unmodified form, regarded minus 30 as the same as 30.' Juventus fans probably wouldn't have minded.

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'We're obviously not far from submission now, and the team had to drop everything and work out how to handle a team starting on negative points. 'That caused us headaches,' says mild-mannered John Jennings, the game's executive producer. And he wasn't the only one cursing either - over in Warwickshire, the Codemasters team working on LMA Manager 2007 were feeling the effects too. His views on the whole thing are decidedly Anglo-Saxon and a bit unprintable. Fans went ballistic - taking to the streets, and, in Fiorentina's case, blocking off a railway line after Franco Zeffirelli appealed to fans to 'cut Italy in half'.Įffects have been far-felt. Within a week half the players involved were looking for new jobs. Italy won the World Cup on Sunday, 9th July. As I type, an Italian court is delivering its verdicts on the appeals made by four clubs caught up in Calciopoli - the Italian football corruption scandal - which has seen three of the country's biggest football sides relegated, two then reinstated, all four docked points, and only the Milanese allowed within half a mile of European competition.

It's been a hell of a month for Italian football.