Football Manager 2012 out before Christmas!! New features announced

That’s right guys, SI have announced that the new Football Manager 2012 will be released before Christmas. We’re getting close and I don’t know about you but I’m quite excited…in fact, let’s look at what SI had to say and talk about the FM 2012 new features.

Brand new features taken from the official Football Manager 2012 website:

New & improved key features for Football Manager 2012:

Manage Anywhere, Anytime – the ability to add or take away playable nations in your saved game as often as you want. Manage in that country at the start of the next season — meaning you don’t have to decide on which nations are playable at the start of your career.

Transfers & Contracts – significant changes to the transfer and contract systems, including loyalty bonuses, better implementation of amateur and youth contracts, an improved transfer centre and the ability to lock areas of the contract negotiation when you aren’t prepared to budge. This helps you to manage your budgets and gives you flexibility in what you offer money hungry players, or agents, as incentives.

Scouting improvements – using several real life scouting reports, a new in-game report was devised which includes squad analysis, tactics information and information about goals scored and conceded alongside lots of other scouting improvements, giving you all the information you need to prepare before kick-off and throughout the season.

3D Match Improvements – new animations, a whole new crowd system, improved weather system, more stadiums, plus two brand new cameras — «Behind Goal» and «Director Cam» as well as all other camera angles being reversible — meaning you can watch and analyse every aspect of every game.

Intelligent Interface – a new adaptive layout system, which means the higher your screen resolution, the more info is easily at your fingertips. The new interface also contains new filters, customisable columns, a new tactics screen, and lots of new overview screens.

Tone – a whole new level has been added to team talks and conversations, with the new tone system, which allows you to specify the way you want to say things – be as cool as a cucumber by saying things calmly or throw tea cups around by saying things with passion. There are 5 different tones to choose from with specific comments per tone.

Brand New Tutorial – standing separate from the main game, a mode to help new players find their way around the game easily, whilst also offering tips to experienced managers on how to get the most out of the game, as well as a new in-game “how to” system.

On top of these key innovations, there are lots of areas of the game that have had huge improvements, such as the media system, press conferences, the youth system, newgens, the social networking options, friendlies, international management and many more which will be detailed in a series of video blogs over the coming months, alongside more information about Football Manager 2012.

On top of these key innovations, there are over 800 new features making huge improvements, such as the media system, press conferences, the youth system, newgens, the social networking options, friendlies, international management and many more which will be detailed in a series of video blogs over the coming months, alongside more information about Football Manager 2012.

What did Miles Jacobson have to say? (quote below found on SI forums)

“We’re delighted to finally be able to start talking about Football Manager 2012” said Miles Jacobson, Studio Director at Sports Interactive. “It’s another year of evolution, with some revolution thrown in for good measure so we’re pretty sure our dedicated communities, and hopefully lots of new people too, get to play and enjoy the game when it’s released later in the year.”

Now you know I don’t do things by halves, so below are some screenshots and videos of Football Manager 2012 to wet your pallet. If this isn’t enough to get you excited I don’t know what is.

Intelligent Interface Video (Taken from SI forums and YouTube): 

3D Match Engine Video (Taken from SI forums and YouTube):

Football Manager 2012 screenshots (Click on images to enlarge):

Stay tuned for more news as and when its announced guys, let me know your thoughts on the new features and if you’re looking forward to the new game. SI have officially announced Football Manager 2012 will be released before Christmas but if other years are anything to go by we may even be looking at November (obviously this is my opinion alone.)