Championship Manager 2
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| Developer(s) | Sports Interactive |
| Publisher(s) | Eidos Interactive |
| Designer(s) | Paul Collyer, Oliver Collyer |
| Release date(s) | September 22, 1995 |
| Genre(s) | Sports |
| Mode(s) | Single player, hotseat-multiplayer |
| Rating(s) | ELSPA: 3+ |
| Platform(s) | PC |
| Media | CD-ROM |
| System requirements | 486 SX or better, 8MB RAM, 2x speed CD-ROM drive |
| Input | Mouse & keyboard |
Championship Manager 2 is a football management computer game in the Sports Interactive's Championship Manager series. It was released in September 1995 for PC - it was originally due to be released much earlier but the release date slipped several times as the developers refused to ship the game before it was completely ready. The proposed Amiga release of CM2 was delayed as it became apparent that squeezing the game into a 2meg computer was going to be tricky. It was eventually released on Amiga in 1997.
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[edit] New features
CM2 was quite a leap forward, in terms of graphics, from previous versions. The game now had SVGA graphics and photorealistic background pictures. Possibly the most notable new feature was the one which is widely regarded as a big mistake - the audio commentary engine. As well as the traditional text-based match commentary, there was also optional voice commentary, provided by famous British football commentator Clive Tyldesley. The major criticism of this was that there weren't enough comments and it quickly got stale and repetitve. Also, to use the audio commentary the games had to be "viewed" at a very slow speed.
Another huge milestone was the inclusion of playable Scottish leagues. For the first time in the series there was a selection of leagues to choose from at the start of the game - only one could be run at a time, however.
[edit] Gameplay
In terms of the underlying gameplay, not a great deal had been changed since the original CM. Things looked a bit prettier but it was still very much a text-based, menu-driven game and the user interface was almost identical to previous games, albeit at a much higher resolution.
[edit] European league versions
Two new versions of Championship Manager 2 were later released allowing users to play leagues from across Europe. One version contained the Spanish, Belgian and Dutch leagues, the other contained French, German and Italian leagues. Only one league could be run at a time but this was still a big milestone for the series and signalled the intent of Sports Interactive to expand the CM universe across the globe.
[edit] Trivia
- This game started the long standing tradition for the box art in the CM series - a simple picture of a football and the title large across the top. This tradition still continues to the present version on the game, Championship Manager 2006.
