Football Manager 2011

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Football Manager 2011
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Developer(s) Sports Interactive
Publisher(s) Sega
Series Football Manager
Platform(s) Windows, Mac OS X, PlayStation Portable, iOS
ReleaseWindows, Mac OS X
PSP
iOS
  • WW: 16 December 2010 [5]
Genre(s) Sports, simulation
Mode(s) Single-player, multiplayer

Football Manager 2011 (often abbreviated to FM11) is a football manager simulation video game. It was released for Windows and Mac OS X on 5 November 2010. It was also released for PlayStation Portable on 26 November 2010. [6] A version for iOS was released on 16 December 2010.

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Gameplay

FM11 features similar gameplay to previous entries in the Football Manager series. Gameplay consists of taking charge of a professional [lower-alpha 1] association football team, as the team manager. Players can sign football players to contracts, manage finances for the club, and give team talks to players. FM11 is a simulation of real world management, with the player being judged on various factors by the club's AI owners and board. [7]

On 11 August 2010, Sports Interactive published a video announcing a number of new features that would be included in Football Manager 2011. [8] FM11 features enhanced agent roles, with agents all acting differently according to their personalities. [9] In-game press conferences received a revamp, with more in-depth questions being asked by the press. [10]

FM11 also featured improvements to match analysis, with information regarding different plays being shown in-depth. [11] [12]

Reception

Review aggregator website Metacritic gives the game a score of 85/100, with "generally favorable reviews" based on 23 critic reports. [13]

The German website 4players.de rated the game with 87% as "sehr gut". [19]

Sales

In February 2011, Sega announced that FM11 was the company's third-highest-grossing game of the financial year, with the PC and PSP versions combined selling 690,000 units. [18] Despite this, Sega called the game's sales "slow", alongside PlatinumGames' Vanquish and Sonic Colors . [20]

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  1. ↑ FM11 also includes semi-professional, amateur and international teams
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  3. ↑ "Late kick-off for PSP's FM2011". Eurogamer.net. 12 November 2010. Retrieved 21 May 2023.
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  11. ↑ "Exclusive FM2011 blog with Miles Jacobson day seven: How player movement analysis will make you a better boss". Mirror Football. 5 October 2010. Archived from the original on 19 October 2010. Retrieved 5 November 2010.
  12. ↑ "Exclusive FM2011 blog with Miles Jacobson day eight: 25-man squads, B-teams, Turkish playoffs and more... the latest rule changes". Mirror Football. 6 October 2010. Archived from the original on 19 October 2010. Retrieved 5 November 2010.
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