I just pre-ordered my game, but it wont be released Untill the 16th in the USA. Blah cant order the Europien release becouse none of those stores ship to the US.

Personal review eh??

Well Ive been playing the demo like I was a crack addict and it was crack.

The game is great, the features I love are the media/manager interaction and when your a national team manager you get to arrange friendlies. Just a really great game we will have in one weeks time.

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Originally posted by trewqy Just curious.. Why did it change its name???

After Release of CM03/04, Sigames n Eidos Interactive parted ways. SiGames got all the codework and database and Eidos got the Proprietary name SiGames have now collaborated with Sega games to bring out the game with new name FM'05, While CM'05 to be released by Eidos is due pretty soon too

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Originally posted by rohit_79 After Release of CM03/04, Sigames n Eidos Interactive parted ways. SiGames got all the codework and database and Eidos got the Proprietary name SiGames have now collaborated with Sega games to bring out the game with new name FM'05, While CM'05 to be released by Eidos is due pretty soon too

Why all the whipping, no need for it.

This game is now in stock @ play.com my order has been processed so could well have it on the 4th.

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This evening, Miles Jacobson, MD of Sports Interactive, sent this letter to all registered members of SIgames.com "Dear Sports Interactive customer. I have some good news for you. Due to some unscrupulous retailers in Italy and Sweden who decided to start selling Football Manager 2005 early without permission, ourselves and Sega have made the decision to bring the release date of Football Manager 2005 forward to this Thursday, November 4th. If you do not live in the UK, then the release date for the game is now thus - 4th November Turkey Germany Switzerland Benelux Spain Bangladesh Hungary Portugal Malta Cyprus Israel Italy Singapore Nordic UAE France Iceland Romania Slovenia South Africa Greece 10th November Czech Republic Poland 12th November Australia New Zealand South Korea 3rd December China To be announced USA South America Canada Japan Indonesia Malaysia Thailand We hope you enjoy Football Manager 2005 as much as we enjoy making it, and we apologise about any release date confusion - but at least it's being brought forward, rather than slipping!

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Status

02/11/2004


Football Manager 2005 (PC)

Delivered to: ***************


£17.99


Posted on 03/11/2004





wooohoo

Yup, mine posted today aswell, hopefully it will arrive for tommorrow.

check this

PhysioRoom agreement for Football Manager 2005


Sports Interactive's upcoming soccer management title to benefit from the input of online sports injury specialist PhysioRoom.com.

Sports Interactive today announced that it has entered into a partnership with online sports injury specialist PhysioRoom.com. The site is designed to be the definitive resource for information about injuries sustained by soccer players in the English Premier League, and it's hoped that, as a result of the agreement announced today, the injuries sustained by players in Football Manager 2005 will be totally authentic.

"We are big fans of the previous [Championship Manager] management games that SI created and have spent far too much time over the years playing them," said PhysioRoom.com's cofounder Peter Lilley. "However, we thought the injury reports could be improved, therefore making the game even more realistic. For example, there were too many occurrences of one type of injury, and all injuries seemed to come about through random bad luck. In reality, the number and impact of injuries suffered by a club can be lessened by good managerial decision-making. We put this to Sports Interactive, and they were positive, because they were keen to improve realism in their new games."

"By incorporating PhysioRoom.com's experience into FM 2005, we're giving our users one extra, and invaluable, stream of information to help them in their day-to-day team management, therefore making the experience even more realistic," added Miles Jacobson, managing director at Sports Interactive. "Should your star player be returning from injury before a crucial match, do you take the risk of a relapse by playing him, or do you leave him out so he might regain full fitness in time for the remaining games of the season? The final decision will still be the manager's, but from here on, he or she will be making that decision from a more informed position."

Sega plans to publish Football Manager 2005 in Europe toward the end of this year. We'll bring you more information on the game as soon as it becomes available.

requirements for playing?

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Originally posted by verminator requirements for playing?

quite low

Minimum
Requirements

Minimum:

Windows 98SE/2000/XP
600MHz processor
128MB RAM
DirectX 8.1 compatible sound card
4x CD-ROM drive
1024x768 32-bit display
650MB hard disk space
Keyboard, mouse

Recommended:

1.8GHz processor
256MB RAM
8x CD-ROM drive


Anyway i've just installed it so i'll be back in 2007

Got my copy through this morning, just about to play it, w00t.