14 DAY TRIAL // Video game publisher SEGA and developer Sports Interactive have announced that fans of the most popular game in the world can now pick up the demo for Football Manager 2012 on Steam and that the full version of the game is set to be released on both the PC and the Mac on October 21.
Those who get the demo will be able to use their saved games in the full version, so that means that dedicated managers basically get a head start with their favorite team.
The Quick Start leagues for the demo include: England, Scotland, France, Spain, Holland, Belgium, Italy, Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Australia.
The in game languages offered are: English, American English, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Danish, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Czech and Polish.
The Football Manager 2012 demo allows managers to lead their team during the first half of the 2011 – 2012 season.
SEGA has also released the system specifications for the upcoming management game:
Windows XP, Vista or Windows 7 1.4 GHz or faster processor for XP and a 2.0 GHz or better one for the other operating systems 512 MB of RAM for XP and 1.0 GB of RAM memory for Vista and Windows 7 a 4x speed DVD-Drive a video card with 128 Mb of memory using chipsets like Nvidia FX 5900 Ultra or greater, ATI Radeon 9800 or greater and Intel 82915G/82910GL or better a sound card that supports DirectX 9.0c compatible
Football Manager from Sports Interactive has long been the gold standard when it comes to football simulation and the company has always managed to push the game forward with every version.
The 2012 installment promises to keep the well known management concepts of the previous games while adding new options linked to the transfer season, the way managers interact with players and to how overall club affairs are handled.