Championship Manager 2008 is a simulator developed by Square Enix, released 5 October 2007 on PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 50 hrs to finish.
What Championship Manager 2008 is
Championship Manager 2008 is a simulator game developed by Square Enix and released in 2007. It was published by Beautiful Game Studios. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Think you can do better? It's your decisions that count: your budget, your buys, your formation, your tactics... your chance to prove it! Use your skills and knowledge to manage your club the way you feel it should be - now it's your turn. All football fans around the world, believe they know more about football than anybody else. More than the guy sat next to them at the match, more than the people commentating on the game, more than the manager of their local team. Championship Manager is the closest you'll ever come to the highs and lows of real football management.
How it plays
It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
How it was received
Championship Manager 2008 holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 34% of the 2,881 rated simulator games in our database, which average 71. Games released in 2007 averaged 64, so it scored 6 points above the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 50 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 125 hrs, roughly 2.5 times the length of the critical path.
What it launched against
Championship Manager 2008 launched on 5 October 2007, within three weeks of Portal, Halo 3, The Witcher and Team Fortress 2. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Portal, Halo 3, The Witcher, Team Fortress 2.
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