End of an Era - Eidos, SI Games and Championship Manager

Frozzy · November 16, 2003, 03:51

At the end of this month, Eidos and SI Games will release Championship Manager 03/04. It will be the final time these two groups will work together on, IMO, the greatest football game in history. Eidos will keep the name, Championship Manager, and SI will keep everything else. So, the when SI release their next football management game, we won't be saying "Have you got the new Champ Manager," or, "I got Stalybridge all the way to the Premier League in Championship Manager", it'll be a new name, which people won't recognise.

Sad, to tell the truth. The end of the greatest football game as we know it.

Imran Siddiqui · November 16, 2003, 04:29

You can just say have you got the new [insert SI's new game name here], instead

. Soon enough people will realize.

And you can still say have you got Champ Man, it'll just be Eidos' crap.

MarkG · November 16, 2003, 04:33

eeer hmm..... SI made the game, right? so what's the issue?

Frozzy · November 16, 2003, 04:35

Championship Manager will now be made by an Eidos Team, not the original SI team.

MarkG · November 16, 2003, 04:45

if SI gets to keep the code, i know what game i'm buying next year

Frozzy · November 16, 2003, 04:49

It'll be interesting to see how many people "fall" for Eidos' crap post-03/04, rather than taking the SI alternative

Imran Siddiqui · November 16, 2003, 05:55

I'm suprised you didn't know about this yet, Mark. I guess many may be caught in the trap.

Asmodean · November 16, 2003, 06:12

Imran....do you play CM ?

If you do, you must be one of a kind. I can't imagine many Americans playing that game

Asmodean

DrSpike · November 16, 2003, 07:59

I had one of the early CM games on my Amiga............haven't played one since though.

Asmodean · November 16, 2003, 08:14

Nah, Spikey....games like CM require intelligence

Asmodean

Kropotkin · November 16, 2003, 08:50

I was a long time ago now when I first got up teams like Wycombe, Stoke, Hull etc to the top of world football. My girlfriend doen't allow me to install it on her computer as she thinks I would occupy it and the game would take me from her. Probably right, it's still the best game ever after (perhaps) Pirates! and Civilization.

Imran Siddiqui · November 16, 2003, 14:51

Quote:

I can't imagine many Americans playing that game

http://dynamic2.gamespy.com/~fof/forums/index.php?s=

Search for Championship Manager. You'll see plenty of Americans who play the game.

Yes, that forum is a to a text-based AMERICAN football game.

And the SI Games forum has had plenty of American posters.

Dauphin · November 16, 2003, 21:25

A rose by any other name would smell just as sweet. Champ Man by any other name will play just as well.

Maquiladora · November 16, 2003, 21:36

CM4 tries to be too realistic and ends up being boring as ****.

I hope the new SI Football Manager sim is better.