The WhatsNext verdict
If you enjoy painstaking football management and can tolerate severe sluggishness and launch-era bugs, Championship Manager 4 delivers an unusually deep, absorbing planning challenge. Otherwise, its unreliable simulation makes it a difficult recommendation.
What it does best
A remarkably deep and believable football-management simulation
The season keeps pulling you toward the next match
Football decisions reward obsessive planning
What might put you off
Very slow, especially with many leagues loaded
Buggy launch and unreliable match simulation
The setup
What you are walking into
Championship Manager 4 series is a football-management simulation computer game.
Where it lives
PC (Microsoft Windows)Mac
Genre
SimulatorSportStrategy
Vibe
BusinessNon-fiction
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