''Championship Manager 2008'' is
football
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management
simulation video game
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in
Eidos Interactive
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's ''
Championship Manager
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'' series. It is available for
Microsoft Windows
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and
Mac
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, and there is no
PlayStation Portable
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version as there was in ''
Championship Manager 2007''. The game was released on 2 November 2007.
Features
Users can now play in a multi-player mode, meaning that they can have more than one person on an account. Furthermore, users can manage nations and can apply "Club Benefactor", which lets the user have more money, although these additions were added in the previous ''Championship Manager''. Another feature is the addition of more leagues like the Australian League, player tendencies, and team talks. The game uses ProZone tool to give a comprehensive database of player statistics.
Reaction
''Championship Manager 2008'' received average reviews but was criticised by ''
GameSpot
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'' because it "ultimately fails because it doesn't seem to know who it's aiming at", and gave it a score of "6". ''
PC Gamer UK
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'' gave the game 72 out of 100 while ''Ferrango'' gave it 45 out of 100.
Other versions
A mobile version of the game, titled ''Championship Manager 2008 Mobile'', was developed in 2008 by
Dynamo Games
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, a mobile games and
BAFTA
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award-winning publisher.
[http://www.baftascotland.co.uk/archive/scotland-awards-2007/nominations-winners ]
See also
*''
Football Manager 2008''
References
2007 video games
Association football management video games
Beautiful Game Studios games
Championship Manager
Eidos Interactive games
MacOS games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Windows games
Dynamo Games games
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