Football Manager 2005 is a simulator developed by Sports Interactive, released 5 November 2004 on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Football Manager 2005 is
Football Manager 2005 is a simulator game developed by Sports Interactive and released in 2004. It was published by Sega. It is available on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Football Manager 2005, known as Worldwide Soccer Manager 2005 in North America, is a football management simulation video game and the first instalment in the Football Manager series developed by Sports Interactive and published by Sega built on top of the code of Championship Manager 4, which Sports Interactive legally owned the rights to. It was released for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X on 4 November 2004 in Europe and on 8 December 2004 in North America.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
How it was received
Football Manager 2005 holds a critic score of 90 out of 100. That places it above 93% of the 2,882 rated simulator games in our database, which average 71. Games released in 2004 averaged 70, so it scored 20 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Football Manager 2005 launched on 5 November 2004, within three weeks of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Half-Life 2, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater and World of Warcraft. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Half-Life 2, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, World of Warcraft.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Football Manager 2005 yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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