You and your opponent will take it in turns to execute three moves on the pitch, be it tackling, dribbling, shooting or just moving a player to a tactical location the idea being to draw out the defence for your players to have a shot.

There’s a significant proportion of time spent in menus for one reason or another here, but aside from being a management sim here you can take direct control of the team in a strategy RPG vein. Unlike other management games though, here you can take a hands on approach to proceedings.

You’ll need to hire players who can perform, but nurture talent from within, juggling players skills and ages with their up and coming counterparts to create a team capable of winning things. Your job as a manager of a newly created football team is to guide them to glory, nurture their talent and discard them when they’re no longer of use, it’s kind of like Pokémon, but the monsters and blokes aged between sixteen and forty. Other than that there’s a slew of menu changes that will baffle anyone who as playing the game in early access but essentially serve to guide you from menu to menu while knowing exactly what lies where.įootball, Tactics and Glory is a football management sim with a difference.

There’s now a proper title screen separating you from automatically clicking an icon and loading a game you didn’t mean to.

It’s also really interesting seeing how a game evolves between builds and whether the tweaks made actually serve to improve things at all.Įssentially the tweaks to Football, Tactics and Glory all take place within the game’s UI. In essence you’re the person who played the game to being with, so it makes sense to have the person carry on that work. It can be weird previewing a game, and then reviewing it later on.

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