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Football Manager 2009 features a vast array of all new features including, for the first time ever, a full 3D view of the world famous Football Manager match engine.

Football Manager 2009 (abbreviated to Football Manager 09 or FM09) is a football manager simulation video game. It was released on PC, Mac and Playstation Portable on 14 November 2008. Some of the new features and box art for the game were announced via a series of videos on 3 September 2008, other new features have been released via a series of podcasts and online blogs.

Sports Interactive studio director Miles Jacobson stated that it was likely that the game would make its debut on DVD: it's looking likely that the game will need a DVD drive this year. Nothing confirmed as yet, but we were very
close to using the full CD size last year, multiple CDs is not an option unfortunately, and I am 95% sure at this stage that we'll be too big for a CD.

The main new feature to the game is the 3D match engine. This can now be watched fullscreen, with a widescreen option available. Other features include being able to play as a female or male manager, improvements to the interaction between the manager and his assistant manager, improved mid-match team talks and tactics, training players to have preferred moves and transfer rumours. The player rating will have a decimal point, eg. 6.8 or 8.3 instead of 7 or 8. There will also be press conferences, where you can build up a rapport with the journalists, and the finance and transfer systems have been completely reworked. The game is set to feature more players than
ever before, with over 350,000 in the database at the time of the game's announcement. Many of the new features were tested using a Football Manager Live beta. The PC version has a skin similar to the one used in Football
Manager 2008.

The handheld version will include a 2D match engine for the first time, and the game will be shipped with two skins; a light and a dark alternative.

There were errors on the release of the game, Steam causing many people aggrivation and pain. The effects on the franchise have been numerous, with Steam at the heart of the problem. Due to high traffic levels, many people
were unable to activate the game, which had to be so via a product code which was sent via the SI Games website, which was unavailable.

Compounding the problems with activation & installation, all lines of communication with technical support have been in meltdown on launch day. The official website of Sports Interactive has been crippled with disgruntled
users desperate to find out how to play the game. The only printed customer services telephone number has been permanently engaged or ringing out.

An official petition to boycott the Football Manager series has been created with over 12,000 signatures gathered by 3:30pm (GMT) on launch day. The nature of the unrest has fell in line with similar issues with recently released
Command & Conquer 3.

• OS: Windows XP or Vista
• Processor: XP: 1.4GHz or Faster / Vista: 2.0GHz or Faster
• Supported Processors: Intel Pentium 4, Intel Core, AMD Athlon
• Memory: XP: 512MB RAM / Vista: 1.0GB RAM
• Hard Drive Space: 2GB
• DVD-Drive: 4x Speed
• Video Card: 128MB *Supported Chipsets (see below)
• Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c compatible
• Directx: Version 9.0c (included)
• LAN: TCP/IP compliant
• Input: Keyboard, Mouse
• Supported Chipsets Nvidia FX 5900 Ultra or greater; ATI Radeon 9800 or greater; Intel 82915G/82910GL or greater.
• Earlier cards may only display 2D Match Viewer Mode and are not supported.
• Laptop versions of these chipsets may work but are not supported.

• Install the game "OFFLINE". This means disconnecting your LAN cable or disabling your computers NIC. Using a firewall might also work.
• Choose phone activation and use the included keygen to register. If there isn't any option to activate by phone, go to step 1.
• Install the 9.3.0 update.
• Play the game. We recommend playing it offline.