14 DAY TRIAL // SEGA Europe and Sports Interactive have confirmed the Gold status for Football Manager 2008 Handheld, the latest iteration in the handheld football management game series for Sony's PlayStation Portable. Having gone gold, the game is now undergoing the manufacturing process, being scheduled for a 30th of November release in Europe.
According to SEGA Europe, Football Manager 2008 Handheld will boast a bunch of new features such as a brand new skin, customizable tactics (as fans have been screaming and crying for those since... ever), enhanced player interaction and of course, the addition of reserve squads, which doubles the number of players at the manager's disposal.
"Once again, Football Manager Handheld 2008 raises the bar for handheld management games, with the team squeezing in as many feature requests from the community as were possible," said Miles Jacobson, Studio Director of Sports Interactive at the time SEGA dated the game for launch before Christmas 2007. "When we first started on the quest for a real pick up and play football management game, we didn't even believe ourselves that the game would be able to have the depth that is does, whilst still being so much fun to play in bite size chunks, or on long journeys and holidays."
An earlier report said that gamers will benefit from greater accessibility and more teams to choose from, while tactics customization will be shared with friends via the system's Wi-Fi connection, with the latest installment in the football manager series. The match engine has been optimized as well, allowing the player to spend more time playing and less time waiting, as the same early press release confirmed back in September.
Football Manager 2008 Handheld will be released across Europe, exclusively for Sony's PSP on the 30th of November. Available languages are English, Spanish, French and Italian, just like in all sports and sport management games.