Football Manager 2011 demo available now!


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As discussed in the thread http://community.sigames.com/showthr...mo-information we're releasing the demo officially on Friday, but thanks to our friends at MirrorFootball, Marca, L'Equipe, Goal.dk and Veikkaaja, you can download the demo using the Steam platform to get the demo a day early. And it's live now.

To download Steam, if you don't already have it, then you can grab it from www.steampowered.com

Here are the links.

UK & English speaking people - http://bit.ly/ck1wUB (also has a very special competition!)

Spain - http://bit.ly/9xQdl6

Finland - http://bit.ly/dfFG6Z

Denmark- http://bit.ly/djXj9M

France - http://bit.ly/cWl2MQ

Non English speaking people that aren't in the countries above - http://bit.ly/cbXM4I

We hope you enjoy it!

This is the full "strawberry" version of the demo, with 12 playable leagues and all languages.

The vanilla version of the demo (UK & Sco leagues only, and English language only) and strawberry direct download and torrent will be released at Friday lunchtime, and this thread will be updated then.

IF YOU GET A REGION LOCK ISSUE, CLICK THE BOTTOM LINK

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Time for my yearly FM Demo posting

Must. Resist. Temptation....

I've loved playing FM 2010 - according to Steam, I've clocked up around 351 hrs worth of game play since purchasing it :) However, I don't think I'm gonna upgrade to 2011. The changes look really interesting, especially the change to the transfer / contract system, but I wanna carry on with my current team, and besides - FM2010 already pushes my netbook to the limit, so I'd imagine 2011 might be a step to far.

Anyone here played the demo? Is it better than FM 2010?

Despite my post about not upgrading, I did install the demo last night, via steam. Haven't had that much of a chance to play around with it, but I think I'm inclined to agree with the reviews that have said they've tried to cram too much information onto the screen, at anyone time. I had a quick look through the Player - Manager Interaction segments, and that looks like it could be interesting. The "match day" highlights ran a bit slow, though to be fair, I was playing it on a nettop (albeit an ION packing one). I'll probably play around with it for a few more hours - or until the half-way point in the season, but I personally haven't really seen aything to justify ditching FM2010, and upgrading to 2011.

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