Boasting over 100 new features, FM2008 is without doubt the most comprehensive, entertaining and involving FM to date. Boasting some beefed up player interaction features, FM2007 made you feel more like a real manager than ever before, allowing you to tap up and destabilise the players you wanted and vent your spleen at opposition managers while contending with boardroom machinations. If you've played it, you'll already know that last year's FM was yet another confident stride along the series' evolutionary path.
Right, you're probably wondering what all this has to do with Football Manager 2008? Have SI infused their hardcore, tactical footy management franchise with a sci-fi alien blasting mini-game? Is James Cameron directing a Football Manager movie? Well, no, but fear not, as all will be revealed later on. If not, go watch them, then come back when you're done and we'll pick things up from there. I'm also going to assume you've seen Aliens: Special Edition (AKA Director's Cut). No, I'm talking about the James Cameron sci-fi masterpiece in which large black monsters with engorged craniums chop up an elite marine taskforce in about two hours. No, not the small grey men with engorged craniums that suck you up into their ships, prod your erogenous zones then spit you back to earth like a globule of hacked up phlegm.
