FIFA Soccer Manager was the first game from the FIFA Soccer Series to be totally different from the others. This time EA Sports didn't do another soccer action game where you control the players. Now you train the players, buy the players, sell the players and them let them play buy their own. You'll have to build your stadium, maintain the pitch to see that it doesn't get full of holes, you'll have to discipline the players, buy or rent concessions for your stadium like sports shops and bars, you can buy land for further expansion of the stadium, you'll have to arrange contracts with players, deal with injuries, arrange the formations and strategies, make sure that the moral of the players is high and hundreds of other things you'll have to do before the match.

Then when you're satisfied you can either just see the result, and statistics of the match immediately, or else (which is the best thing to do) watch the match with motion captured moves from David Ginola and in SVGA colour. Once you're in the match, you can still change the tactics, formations and substitute players. You must make sure that nearly all of the players play sometime, because their moral will decrease soon, and they would request a transfer.

Some people say that soccer management games are boring. Well, I disagree. They're not boring when after 10 years you manage to take your Division 3 team to the Premier league, then win the Championship, arrive to the final of the Champions League and you see your 5 year trained forward score a goal from 20 meters away in the 88th minute against Borussia Dortmund.

In FIFA Soccer Manager you could play from 5 European leagues - English, Italian, French, Scottish and German. There could have been more leagues to play with like the Spanish, Dutch and Portuguese. This was the only thing that made FIFA Soccer Manager lose some points against it's competitors.

The conclusion is that FIFA Soccer Manager is the most detailed and fun soccer management game on the market. I think this will remain until the next FIFA Soccer Manager comes out at the end of August or beginning of September.