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Championship Manager 2010 is an association football manager simulation video game developed by Beautiful Game Studios and published by Eidos Interactive. It was released for Microsoft Windows on September 11, 2009 making it the Second Championship Manager game to be released by Football Manager since Championship Manager 2007.[1]

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Championship Manager 2010 box art
Developer(s)	Beautiful Game Studios
Publisher(s)	Eidos Interactive
Series	Championship Manager
Platform(s)	Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X Java ME
Release	EU: September 11, 2009
Genre(s)	Sports management

The Mac OS X version of the game was shipped from Virtual Programming on November 23, 2009.[2]

Features

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Due to the game's two-year development time, Beautiful Game Studios implemented new features to the football management game.

3D match engine

The match engine underwent an overhaul with the result being a fully animated match engine with over 500 individual player animations. Additionally, seven different camera angles, replays and the ability to record and re-watch matches were added.

Set Piece creator

This feature enables managers to create set pieces. The player can call upon all the individual strengths of your squad members to produce the perfect free kick. The creator splits the set piece into a number of stages.

Scouting network

Scouting for new players is more accessible. Players are given a world map view of their knowledge of different countries and expenditure allocation. Scouts report back the up-and-coming star players from around the world.

Drill training

Players are able to set up drills to see how their players match up against each other – shooting, crossing, practice matches, and more.

CM Season Live

CM Season Live is a monthly downloadable update that brings you recent events related to football.

Mail and media

A huge range of messaging in the game enables you to have far greater access to information and news from within the game world of football. Broadcasting real media references, the latest CM news system delivers in a wide variety of ways.

Dynamic display window

A dynamically updated display window shows information to the user. Players can view league tables, fixtures, top goal scorers, and more. Global coverage will appear throughout the game on every screen.

ProZone

ProZone allows users to access post-match analysis on their players with full stats on their own team and the opposition's.

Development

Originally named Championship Manager 2009, the game was renamed due to a change in release dates from April 2009 to September 11, 2009.[3] Championship Manager 2010 is the first game in the series to have a 2-year development time. This is due to recent versions in the series not being critically successful for publisher Eidos Interactive, who admitted that the franchise had lost direction in recent years and that the publisher was determined to make the game a "strong alternative" to Sega's Football Manager.[4] On 18 August 2009, Eidos Interactive announced fans would be able to buy the game for as little as 1p along with a £2.50 'transaction fee'. This is the first time any video games publisher has done this.[5]

Reception

Championship Manager 2010 has received more positive reviews than previous versions of the Championship Manager series. Eurogamer gave the game an 8 out of 10 stating "For the first time, the Championship Manager series is a viable alternative to Football Manager... CM10's attempts to innovate must be applauded, and the majority of its refinements are either solid additions or real winners.[7] MSN UK also applauded the game and concluded "Once you get stuck into a season, it is fearsomely addictive, and all aspects of football management are present and correct, if not necessarily developed to Football Manager's level of sophistication. It is a lot more forgiving than Football Manager... If that doesn’t bother you, it’s worth considering for the first time in years."[8]

Now Gamer gave the game a 7.3 out of 10 concluding "Championship Manager 2010 – particularly with its impressive highlights engine – manages to land a good few solid punches, and gives the Sports Interactive team something to genuinely mull over. For Championship Manager is now in the finest shape it’s been in for half a decade, and there are more solid foundations for next year’s edition to be built on."[9] UK news site The Guardian gave the game 4 out 5 stars and concluded that "If you seek a straight-down-the-line football management experience that tests your powers of wheeler-dealing, man-management, tactics and training, then you will find Championship Manager thoroughly satisfying...At last, the beloved old stager has found a hint of its previous form."[10]

Sales

General Manager of Beautiful Game Studios Roy Meredith claimed the 'Pay What You Want' promotion for Championship Manager 2010 had "exceeded" expectations.[11] In its first two weeks of release the game held the No.1 spot in the PC Retail charts.[12] In its third week the game slipped to No. 2. After over four months of being sold, the game dropped out of the Top 10 Retail PC Games chart.

See also

• Football Manager 2010

External links

• Official Championship Manager Site

References

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