I went to the launch do for Football Manager 2009 last night, the latest in the series of games that ruined your degree/relationship/life. It was at Kick in Shoreditch, an excellent venue which allowed for copious hogging of the table football (and a double defeat of the French. Superb).
I'm not going to post a review of Football Manager 2009, largely because it's not finished yet, but Miles Jacobson, the man behind the franchise, showed us a video of some of the features and then took a Q&A.
A lot of the content from the film is in this You Tube video that's also on the official Football Manager 2009 site:
The main new feature to talk about is the 3D match engine, which is based directly on the motion capture technology used in Virtua Striker, thanks to Sports Interactive's link-up with Sega. It looks really good already, and Jacobson was keen to stress it's about 40% of the way to being finished. Oh, and there are now 350,000 players in the database. More for Gary Megson to try and sign for Bolton then!
I'd also recommend, partly because it features my good friend, the Evening Standard's James Olley, checking out their series of podcasts, which will be a source of news for more of the myriad new features for the game.
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