''Premier Manager 2003–04'' is a football management simulation game, developed and published by

Zoo Digital Publishing Zushi Games was a British video game publisher. Based in Sheffield, Zushi is the owner of the multi-million-selling Premier Manager (series), ''Premier Manager'' series and best known for Alien Hominid. Zushi published titles for the Nintendo ...

and released for the

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, PlayStation 2 and

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in November 2003. It is the ninth game in the ''

Premier Manager ''Premier Manager'' is a series of a football management video games started in 1992. Published by Gremlin Interactive, it was first developed by Realms of Fantasy, later passed to Spanish company Dinamic Multimedia. The later games were later p ...

'' series.

Gameplay

''Premier Manager 2003–04'' is a football management simulation game that puts the player in charge of a team of their choice from the top four English divisions (

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to the

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, as it was known at the time) or the top two Italian, German, French and Spanish leagues. As in the previous title in the series, '' Premier Manager 2002/2003 Season'', players are required to undertake meetings with chairmen, coaches, scouts and players, with dialogue choices impacting how club personnel perceive the manager, as well as the performance of players on the pitch. Matches are played in a 2D engine, as opposed to the 3D engine used in the previous title.

Development

The title is the first in the series developed and published by Zoo Digital Publishing, following their acquisition of the intellectual property rights of

Gremlin Interactive Gremlin Graphics Software Limited, later Gremlin Interactive Limited and ultimately Infogrames Studios Limited was a British software house based in Sheffield, working mostly in the home computer market. Like many software houses established in ...

in October 2003.

Reception

Reviewing the Game Boy Advance version ''

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'' gave a score of 64%, contending that while the game "certainly gives you a powerful thrill when your team's score changes from 0 to 1 on the

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-style interface", there "doesn't seem to be enough depth to stop you feeling the results are ultimately random".

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Premier Manager 2003-04 2003 video games Association football management video games Video games developed in the United Kingdom PlayStation 2 games Premier Manager Game Boy Advance games Single-player video games