FM 2009.

In about two weeks time, SiGames will be releasing Football Manager 2009. It comes with a whole bunch of new, and exciting features, which I’m not going to sum up here (JFGI!). Although I’ll mention the biggest one; a 3D pitch.

Now this of course looks like a normal evolution that was bound to happen some day. But I’m not really happy with it, or let’s just say I’m very cautious. Not only because I’m afraid it will be a resource-hogging monster, but more importantly because it might potentially make it more difficult to run the game on a Linux powered machine. (Note though that I have no knowledge or ‘proof’ to back this up, I just think it might)

For those of you who are too impatient, the demo has been released on Sunday morning, and there seems to be at least one person who managed to get it working on OpenSuse. Although I would advise you to keep an eye out for any other, and hopefully more detailed, success stories.

I myself am not going to try the demo. I don’t like to get all “into” a save and then be forced to quit it because the demo only let’s you play half a season.

But I am definately buying the game. It’s an annual tradition.

[HowTo] Football Manager on Linux.

I’m a big fan of the Football Manager series, previously the Championship Manager series. I think I started out with the CM 00/01 edition. As a football (game) fan, you either like the game, or you completely loath it. But if you like it, you’re most likely addicted to it. As am I.
I mean really addicted…

Of course you need either MS Windows or Mac OSX to be able to play the game. I’ve once inquired about the possibilities of porting it to Linux, but the developers didn’t seem interested. Since the game is so brilliant, I’ll forgive them. Hey, at least they already thought about those (few) Mac users.

Luckily there are a few ways to run it on a Linux computer as well.