Championship Manager 2006 Demo

Playing football can be considered rather easy, if you have the talent for it and the necessary training to last an hour and a half on the pitch under constant pressure from thousands of fans. Managing, on the other hand, requires a collection of skills and abilities, all of which are vital in leading a team to victory. Hence, from tactics and strategy, all the way to finances and haggling, you need to know a bit of everything in order to be successful.

In Championship Manager 2006, all of these abilities must be put into practice if you want to last throughout an entire season of leading the chosen club. You also have to start bringing results as soon as possible and slowly advance toward the goals set by the board when they agree to hire you, which usually require you to finish on certain positions in the league table.

This new installment comes with a whole array of improvements when it comes to the degree of realism implemented into the game's components, especially regarding the AI. Hence, transfers are not that easy to perform now, since other teams might try to outbid out, while the club that owns the player may not risk selling him to one of their rivals at all.

The core element of the game remains the ability to customize your club's performance on the field, though, since that is the most important task of the manager anyway. Beside the already present training sessions that can be held in order to increase the skill level of your players, a lot of new gimmicks have been introduced as well, such as the revolutionary gameplan engine.

The available database has been improved as well, since it now contains even more information than before, concerning everything from salaries, skill points and a detailed match history for every player. A huge amount of teams and leagues are available for you to choose from, complete with the real player names and their achievements throughout their careers.

In the end, Championship Manager 2006 may not provide you with an actual simulation of the sport, but it doesn't have to, since its purpose is to give you a taste of how it would be like to be in charge of the entire team, rather than be a single player on the pitch. Thus, you are liable to lose countless hours inside the game, especially if you are a hardcore football fan.