FIFA Manager 07 Demo

Being in charge of a football team is not always the dream-job, especially since you are directly responsible for the club's results and whether they rise to expectations game after game. Thus, your responsibilities as a manager are not nearly as easy as you might think, since you need to keep an eye on a lot of things at once if you want your team to stay afloat.

FIFA Manager 07 is the latest installment of the well-known football management franchise, which allows you to take control over a soccer team and manage its every aspect according to your preferences, including the players, budget and various other resources. Thus, you can model the club as you see fit and put your wildest plans into action, to see whether you were made for the job.

To start off with, the game requires you to create a manager profile, which is way more extended that you would imagine, since you can even add family members to your biography. As expected, you are allowed to choose a team to manage throughout the span of at least a season, by browsing the truly massive list of available clubs from all over the world. After you make your choice, you just have to sign the contract and start putting your ideas into practice.

As it is customary, every contract comes with a few terms that both parts must agree on before the collaboration can begin. Thus, depending on the team you choose to train, the management asks you to achieve certain goals in order to keep your job. In case the chosen club is not very strong, the terms are pretty mild as well, since you are usually required to finish in the top half of the table, or avoid being kicked out of the league altogether. As the fame and strength of the managed team increase, so does the difficulty of the goals set by the board at the signing of the contract.

The game plays out pretty much the same way when it comes to the actual career mode, since you have to give it your best in order to train the players and manage the budget as well as you can. You can also train a specific player and control him on the field, in case you want to add a more personal touch to the games and give yourself more power over the results.

Although FIFA Manager 07 may not be the most alert game out there, it does manage to engage you in other ways and it rarely gets boring. Hence, you might find yourself playing for hours at end, as long as your team keeps getting better and better.