Ultimate Soccer Manager 98-99 One of the most underrated soccer simulation series of all time is back, and this time is arguably a better game than venerable Championship Manager 2. USM 98 contains data for the 7 biggest Euroepean Leagues: England, Scotland, Italy, France, Germany, Spain and the Netherlands. That's over 400 clubs and around 12,000 individual players, all with appropriate skills and stats.
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Although very similar to Championship Manager in terms of epic scope and a multitude of options, it is better for one thing: a statistics editor. This allows you to edit the teams and players to keep them up to date, something that is a very nice touch and not seen in soccer management sims until much later.
In addition to new features that set the game apart from competitors, USM 98 boasts one of the most detailed and realistic transfer systems ever devised. Similar to business games such as Hollywood Mogul, the game requires you to negotiate with the club and the player's agent. You can loan, buy, or exchange players- and even offer extra cash if the player plays more than 15 matches for example. You can have all six European leagues run at the same time, which opens up the possibility of not only player transfers but also management offers from clubs in Serie A.
The game offers two play modes: either full-management (running the entire club from advertising to pricing snacks), or coach (football elements only). There are numerous other nice touches, such as the excellent tactics editor, post-match newspaper reports, and a much-improved interface that is more accessible for beginners than the esoteric interface of CM2.
Although there are a few shortfalls, such as the limited number of available players for transfer, and the apparent ease of play- it seems you won't get sacked no matter how badly you are managing the team, USM 98 in all other respects is the game that equals -or even.exceeds.- CM2. If you are a soccer fan, this is a must-have. Note: If you like the game but feel it is a bit outdated, I highly recommend Mega Update pack: the most comprehensive update of game roster for 2000/2001 season play. The 600KB file contains literally thousands of transfers, newcomers, and more. Download full game now: (11000kB) (355kB) Ultimate Soccer Manager 98-99 screenshot People who downloaded this game have also downloaded:,.
This article needs additional citations for. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: – ( March 2007) Ultimate Soccer Manager or USM is an management serie for, and, produced by and distributed by from 1995 to 1999. The game was a massive hit in Europe (except in, where it was worse received due to some similarities with managers produced by local software houses such as and ), although it gained little support in. The series was noted for its micromanagement, where the player had to do the job of the team manager and much of that of the chairman, from player training up to bank balance management. Other well-known features were to an opposing team for preferential market treatment, or on the outcome of the players' team matches. Interviews after the match where some answers were printed with different interpretations on the next days' newspaper (the player could reply a question about the game with 'It was a game of two halves', and 'He amazed us after the game by giving us an insight into the rules of football' would be printed on the newspapers).
In all three games, the game always kept the same visual style: the main screen is a bird's eye view of the stadium facility (where clicking on the grass brings the squad selection screen or in the stands for the stadium builder) and all screens are presented like the player was inside an office ( used a similar interface option). To increase the feeling of 'being there', tables are accessed via, news from a and fixtures are available by clicking on a sheet attached to a clipboard. While improving with each game, most features were the same from the start of the series. The game compared favourably in all areas but against its leading competitor,. While similar in name, it has no relations with.
Contents. Ultimate Soccer Manager The original version of the game provided the league system from the down to the. It was distributed as shareware, with a fully functional demo in which the player could only select then Second Division side. The game allowed to watch games in top-down view, buy and sell players, manage the team, upgrade the stadium and manage commercial interests such as advertising and merchandise. The game received a rating of 83% from Amiga computing.
The review stating the game's graphic approach and coverage of business issues made it stand out in the crowded football management simulation market. The graphics the game used for actual matches, however, were considered poor. In 1996, a data disk for the Amiga version was released, covering the 1995-1996 season. Ultimate Soccer Manager 2 The second version of the game, USM 2 ran in, featured a more polished interface (plus teams and players of the 1996-1997 season and also the and leagues (although in the last the final name of the players had a letter swapped to avoid legal problems regarding licensing) which could be accessed with different executables.
In Germany, a localized version of the game was released under the name 'DSF Fussball Manager', being a well-known German TV sports channel. Ultimate Soccer Manager 98 This version of the game was updated to run natively on and and included teams, players and statistics from the 1997-1998 season. The number of leagues increased to five, as both and championships were added. Transfers required often a week or more of fax exchange between clubs and with the player agent, making the game more realistic than most other games in this aspect, which only required the player to bid for the player and agree on wage and length, adding him instantaneously to the team. USM 98 was released as 'DSF Fussball Manager 98' for the German market.
An update disk (also available as a stand-alone) named Ultimate Soccer Manager 98-99 Season Update Add-on was sold shortly after the game came out with statistics for the 1998-1999 season, which also included both and top two divisions, increasing the number to seven playable leagues. While several bugs were ironed (such as a giving one of the assistants a wage of £99'999'999, and then after offering him a new contract he would start paying the club around £13M weekly, a glitch that carried from USM 2), it became clear that many teams would allow their superstar players to end contract, allowing the player to pick them for free (although with a large salary). Similarly, you could loan a big-name player worth millions and then use him as a makeweight in transfer deals. As the official pre-game editor included in the game was poor, some USM users produced enhanced pre-game editors. USM Data Editor (USMDE or UDE), of which the official web site was included in the USM Online web site (usm.footymanager.net), was called as the best editor. USMDE includes various features for USM98 editing, e.g., creating players, editing hidden stats, add-on file support for easy data update by USM fans, beta-released save game editing. USM 2000 There was a planned 2000 version of the game, which was developed.
However, the game was thought to be scrapped after Sierra UK became impatient with the game's development progress. The game was set to have an 'all-new 3D match engine with advanced Artificial Intelligence'. It is also believed that the coding was rewritten. Updates (2012–present) After posting on a Facebook group dedicated to the game, Ande Pearson and Dane Smallbone decided to work together to update all player and team data for the 2012–13 season.
The data file was made available to download from the Facebook group titled 'Ultimate Soccer Manager Update'. As the update proved popular, they have since updated the player and team data up to and including the 2017–18 season and introduced up-to-date sponsors and advertisers to the game. Technical issues The game sometimes crashes when is played for a large number of in-game seasons. The problems with savegames include: no possibility of viewing detailed info on some players (the game quits after double-clicking on player's name), wrong statistics about some players (ex. Incorrect information about scored goals etc.) or even an unexpected exit of the game after viewing post-match statistics. The best way to cope with these problems is to make a lot of savegames, for ex.
Every in-game month. The game does not run properly on Windows XP. But it runs smoothly on Windows 98, so you can use a free software like Microsoft Virtual Machine with Windows 98 on Windows XP to run the game. External links.
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