Championship Manager: Season 03/04

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Championship Manager 03/04
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Developer(s) Sports Interactive
Publisher(s) Eidos Interactive
Series Championship Manager
Platform(s) Microsoft Windows, Macintosh
ReleaseWindows
  • EU: 21 November 2003 [1]
  • AU: 5 December 2003 [2]
Mac OS X
  • EU: 12 December 2003 [1]
Genre(s) Sports
Mode(s) Single player, multiplayer

Championship Manager 03/04 is a football management game in the Championship Manager series, developed by Sports Interactive and published by Eidos Interactive, released for Windows in November 2003 and the following month on Mac computers. [3]

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Gameplay

The game showcases a whole host of new features and improvements including four new leagues, a pre-game database editor, the ability to view previously saved matches and updated player, team and competition data for the 03/04 season. The game retains the 2D, top-down graphical view of the match, first introduced in the previous title in the series, Championship Manager 4 . [4]

The game features 43 countries leagues playable across 92 divisions divisions, [5] a database of more than 200,000 footballers from around the world, and stats rated by an army of more than 2,500 researchers.

Development

This was the last game in the series published prior to the split between developers Sports Interactive and Eidos, the publishers of the series since Championship Manager 2 , with Sports Interactive going on to launch the rival Football Manager series. [6]

Reception

Championship Manager: Season 03/04 received a "Platinum" sales award from the Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA), [7] indicating sales of at least 300,000 copies in the United Kingdom. [8]

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References

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  2. ↑ "Championship Manager 03/04". Atari Australia . Archived from the original on 24 June 2004. Retrieved 5 April 2024.
  3. ↑ Burnes, Andrew (2003-11-05). "Championship Manager 03/04 Gold & Demo". IGN . Retrieved 2023-04-23.
  4. ↑ Lackey, Jeff (27 February 2004). "Championship Manager: Season 03/04 Review". GameSpot . Retrieved 2023-04-23.
  5. ↑ Manson, Andy (11 February 2017). "The history of Championship Manager, part one: from 1992 debut to the Eidos split in 2003". PCGamesN. Retrieved 2023-04-23.
  6. ↑ Newman, James; Simons, Iain (2007). 100 Video Games - BFI Screen Guides. London: British Film Institute. p. 21. ISBN   978-1-84457-162-8.
  7. ↑ "ELSPA Sales Awards: Platinum". Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association . Archived from the original on 2009-05-15. Retrieved 2018-11-23.
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