![]() Related: FIFA 16 review | PES 2016 review It boils down a lot of what makes Football Manager so special – the slick experience and wealth of player data – but makes it far more accessible and not so time consuming. If you only want the core Football Manager experience, and want to be able to play it almost seamlessly across devices, FM Touch is great. ![]() There’s a lot of time wasted on Loading screens and this somewhat deters from the tablet experience. It’s also still quite a slow game, something I hoped wouldn’t be an issue with this slimmed down version. The game struggles to start again when I jump out and back in again, sometimes it’s completely unresponsive while others a takes me back a few days for no apparent reason. Odd bugs are also very common, not so much on the desktop but certainly on tablets. ![]() I want it so that each time I open up the game – whether it’s on my MacBook or iPad – I’m put directly into the the latest save. Instead of seamlessly syncing your progress to the cloud every time you save on the iPad (or desktop) you need to manually go into the main-menu, hit the ‘Cross Play’ option and upload your game. There are also some issues with how the game uses the cross-save functionality. Any true FM fan will know this isn’t the right way to play. Every time one of my players gets injured I’m pestered into buying a ‘Magic Sponge’ for 79p. There’s far too much insistence of in-app purchases to help make the game easier. ![]() These plonk you straight into some tough situations – having your starting eleven injured or trying to win the league with a bunch of kids, for instance – and make sense on a tablet as they give you shorted burst of gameplay rather the fairly complicated desktop version.įootball Manager Touch has a lot going for it, but it’s not perfect. The 3D game mode from the full game is here too – although I’ll take the 2D view anyday – as are the hilariously bad create-a-manager options.Ĭreate-A-Club is here too and it’s still ridiculously fun, as are a bevy of Challenge modes. This makes even more sense on the tablet, as tapping the options is easier than using a mouse. A lot of the once text-heavy menus – especially those for setting up how your team plays – are now much easier on the eye with big arrows and brighter colours. If you put a player in the wrong position, it’ll tell you so straight away and recommend a more suitable replacement. It ditches things like team talks, press conferences, managing your training schedules and so on, meaning you can get straight down to the fun stuff: choosing a team to manage, buying some uber-talented young starlets from South America and hopefully taking a mid-table side into the final of the Champions League.Ī lot of the fantastic visual changes that made FM 2016 so great have made their way over to Touch. Just like last year’s Football Manager Classic, Touch is a slimmed down version of the very best footy sim you can buy. That version will set you back another £15. You can also buy it separately through Steam for £19.99 and then you’ll need to buy it once again for your Android or iOS tablet. If you’ve already purchased Football Manager 2016 – and you really should, it’s very good – you’ll get Touch for your PC for free. If you’ve started the normal, full-fat version of the game you won’t be able to bung that progress onto your trusty iPad Air 2. First off it’s important to note that you can only sync the data between Football Manager Touch for ‘high-end tablets’ and the desktop version of FM Touch. Now, it’s still some way off being the perfect solution. Related: Best PS4 Deals | Best Xbox One Deals | Best Steam deals I’ve always found other mobile instalments in the series good as standalone games, but lacked the lasting factor simply because a lot of the time it’s better playing on a larger screened laptop, rather than a relatively small tablet. Having this addition instantly makes Football Manager Touch 2016 an interesting product. Back home again? All that data can be synced to your laptop. With cross-save, you can start a game on your computer at home and pick it up on your iPad on the way to work or at lunchtime. That feature is cross-save, and it’s probably the biggest reason for picking up Football Manager Touch 2016. Since Football Manager first hit phones and tablets a few years ago, there’s been a feature that seems like such an obvious inclusion I’m surprised it’s taken this long for it to arrive. ![]() Available on Steam (PC, Mac, Linux) £19.99 and iOS/Android £14.99 each ![]()
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