The Premier Manager 2 match engine has all you need to portray the drama of football tension rises as the ball edges closer to one end or the other, the clock ticks away in rapid chunks, a few basic stats keep you in the loop on which team is leading on possession or shots at goal, and shots themselves are accented by canned scoreboard-style animations that for just an instant leave you holding your breath as you wait for a highly-pixellated MISS, SAVE or GOAL to fill the screen.įans of the beautiful game like to remark upon its poetry. The best player in the game if you're lucky you can sign Conroy in your first season on a free transfer.
I could imagine a world of possibility from that bar and the barebones commentary that accompanies it - reporting tackles, passes, interceptions and shots with utmost efficiency of language. I remember hours spent racing through matches with the speed cranked up to "ultra", the ball hopping back and forth along a narrow strip that looks more akin to a progress bar than a football pitch. Premier Manager 2 is, to my mind, the last of the old kind of virtual football management it's the final hurrah for a less-is-more approach that eroded on one side with the rise of Championship Manager's stats-driven simulation and on the other with the flash and misplaced grandeur (and terrible graphical match engines) of later Premier Manager and Ultimate Soccer Manager games. There was a playfulness and a willingness to part from realism because it was cool, and because games don't need to be lifelike.
Even when they took themselves way too seriously, like with The Manager and the Premier Manager series, football management games used to have a wonderful innocence to them that the latest Sports Interactive fare lacks. Oh how I miss the days of five-hour seasons and having the power to select and arrange advertising boards.
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