Premier Manager 2002/2003 Season

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Premier Manager 2002/2003 Season
Premier Manager 2002-2003 Season Cover.jpg
PlayStation 2 cover art
Developer(s) Runecraft
Tuna Technologies
Publisher(s) Zoo Digital Publishing
Series Premier Manager
Platform(s) PlayStation 2, Windows
ReleasePS2
  • EU: 22 November 2002
  • AU: 2003
Windows
Genre(s) Sports
Mode(s) Single-player

Premier Manager 2002/2003 Season is a football management simulation game, released for PlayStation 2 in 2002 and Windows the following year. [1] [2] The game was developed by Runecraft and published by Zoo Digital Publishing, with Tuna Technologies working on the PC port. [3] [2] It is the eight game in the Premier Manager series.

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Gameplay

Premier Manager 2002/2003 Season is a football management simulation game that puts the player in charge of a team of their choice from the top three English divisions (Premier League to the second division, as it was known at the time) or the top two Italian, German, French and Spanish leagues. The database features over 10,000 individual players. [4]

In a first for the series, meetings with chairmen, coaches, scouts and players are realised with 3D models and dialogue choices. [2] Choices players make in these conversations impact how club personnel perceive the manager, as well as the performance of players on the pitch. [4] Match highlights are rendered with 3D animations. [5]

Reception

Stuart Messham of Play magazine awarded the title a score of 65%, describing the meetings mechanic as an "original approach", but one that ultimately resulted in "long-winded" and "rather dull" gameplay. [4]

PSW magazine's Mikey Foley gave the game a score of just 3/10, describing it as "a highly tedious trawl through screen after screen of laborious menus and pointless conversations", arguing that players may end up "wishing you'd bought LMA Manager instead". [5]

The PC version reviewed poorly in PC Zone magazine, with critic Mark Hill giving a score of just 14/100, referring to the game's "beyond awful interface and graphics" and "minimal gameplay". [2]

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References

  1. ↑ Bramwell, Tom (22 November 2002). "What's New? Everything from mech frenzy to Jedi Knights..." Eurogamer . Retrieved 2023-01-22.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Hill, Mark (September 2003). "Reviews: Premier Manager 2002/2003". PC Zone (132). Future Publishing: 84.
  3. ↑ "Premier Manager: 2002/2003 Season (2002) PlayStation 2 release dates". MobyGames. Retrieved 2023-01-22.
  4. 1 2 3 Messham, Stuart (January 2003). "Review: Premier Manager 02". Play (98). Paragon Publishing: 73.
  5. 1 2 Foley, Mikey (March 2003). "Review: Premier Manager 2002/2003 Season". PSW (9). Next Publishing: 70.
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