Champ Manager goes online

Say goodbye to your friends, family and job - Championship Manager Online is coming in January, and it'll consume your life.
Eidos Interactive have this morning announced Championship Manager Online, a brand new subscription-only title that'll let you take your team online and pit your managerial wits against other sheepskin-clad individuals. The game, which is a separate title from Championship Manager 5, will be released in January next year and will be handled by Swedish developers Jadestone, in conjunction with CM5 developers Beautiful Games Studios. It's long been the dream of the ChampMan faithful to take their lovingly-crafted team onto the world wide web, and Championship Manager Online will mark the series' first tentative steps onto the internet. Expect it to be bigger than an online Jesus.

While the game will share much of the architecture of Championship Manager 5, it looks like its online compadré will be a slightly pared down version in order for it to work over the web. To begin with, you'll be able to choose clubs from six national leagues (English, Scottish, German, Italian, Spanish and French) and once you're on board, you're entered into a world in which there's one of every club, presumably all belonging to other human players. It's a neat way of skirting round availability issues - it'd be a bit naff if you spend your hard earned dollars on a copy only to find out somebody's already picked Spurs. You'll still be able to dabble in transfers, training, tactics and the like, refining every aspect of your team. The sheer number of stats required for such an online operation boggles the mind, let's hope Eidos are in possession of some seriously big servers.

If six leagues doesn't sound like much to you, then worry not, because Eidos will update the game with new leagues, teams and players over time and will stay on top of all the latest transfer dealings, no matter how over-priced (Rooney) or under-priced (Owen) they are. During those crippling moments when you're not able to log on to a PC, Eidos are even offering an SMS update system to keep you informed of proceedings, a feature we're sure your spouse will appreciate during your 'quality time'.

Jamie, linky

does this remind anyone of that Sky sports manager where you had to be online to play it and u could only play like 3 games a day and had to wait like 5 days to play the next 3 ??????

yes of course all ideas that aren't used by sigames is going to be abvsolute shite silly me:rolleyes:

No.

The thing is, Eidos want to squeeze every last penny out of us. ¬_¬
Why did they have to take out the online option in CM5? If they had left it in and only asked you to pay to play online that would've been better (that's what the makers of popular MMORPG's do).

IMHO CMO will fail.

quote xpronic

No.

The thing is, Eidos want to squeeze every last penny out of us. ¬_¬
Why did they have to take out the online option in CM5? If they had left it in and only asked you to pay to play online that would've been better (that's what the makers of popular MMORPG's do).

IMHO CMO will fail.

If you get real prizes with winning cups and the like, then maybe it might be worth it.