Eidos Interactive has released some new screenshots of their upcoming sports game, Championship Manager 2008. They also mentioned that the game will release some time before Christmas 2007.
About Championship Manager 2008:
- Championship Manager 2008 is fully updated for the 2007/2008 football season and has a completely different look with new skins, menu shortcuts and an improved user interface making it the most easily accessible title in the series to date. The game also boasts a greatly enhanced match engine with improved realism, analysing each player and making them react on pitch to the action depending on what their ‘real-life’ tendencies are as a footballer. For example, a player who likes to overlap and send crosses in from the by-line will try and do so as much as possible during a game.
- This new system creates a practical simulation of how footballers behave in real life match situations and managers can even train individual squad members to incorporate tendencies into their match skill set. The match engine in 3-D, now shows players jostling for position with the opposition, sliding in for tackles as well as keepers diving for the ball, adding to the realistic depiction of the match on the pitch. In addition following on from its debut appearance in Championship Manager 2007, ProZone is back as a fully integrated Post Match Analysis tool which isolates the key factors that decided the result of your game and provides you with the knowledge to act on the match incidents and reinforce your team for the next fixture.
Championship Manager 2008 has been developed by London based Beautiful Game Studios (BGS). It will release for the PC sometime later this year. However, there is no word by Eidos on whether the game will release for the consoles.