Championship Manager: Season 03/04 Demo

If you're an avid football fan and you never miss your favorite team's matches, then you might know that there are certain moments when you believe that you could probably do a better job at managing its players. Championship Manager: Season 03/04 gives you the change to put you theory to the test, by taking the reigns of the desired club and leading it to victory.

The game starts off by allowing you to create a new manager avatar, which can be customized with your own name, country of origin and favorite football club. After the personal settings are out of the way, you can jump straight into the action and start changing the way the team acts on the field, by editing the squad formation and the player positioning, depending on the strategy you want to use.

As in real life, players do not fare that well on positions that do not fit their particular set of skills, so you have to keep in mind that when you are devising the game plan. Some of them might not be available at all in some situations, due to injuries or the fact that they have been borrowed to other teams for a temporary amount of time.

Since there are more than one hundred divisions available to play in, the number of players is astonishing as well, reaching over 200,000 names. All of them have a variety of information stored about their skill level, personal history and a detailed extras of previous teams, achievements and various other data that can help you spot a good transfer.

Because most of the gameplay is spent trying out squad formations and training your players to increase their abilities, the graphics are practically non-existent, although you do get to watch the matches in the 2D game monitor. This is merely an improvisation to show you the most important moments throughout the game, since the action is mostly fed to you in text form.

In the end, Championship Manager: Season 03/04 provides you with all the tools you might need in order to succeed or fail at being a soccer manager. Thanks to the vast amount of options and settings available, you can squeeze out hundreds of hours of gameplay out of it, as long as you manage to resist the stress and control your nerves.