Premier Manager 3 is an old school classic game, i remember spending evenings as a youngster managing Halifax Town to premiership glory! Hours spent wheeling and dealing through seasons of cup wins and heartbreaking defeats. Starting out as a new manager you can only take control of a conference side and spend time pulling them up through the leagues building on your reputation as a manager with your fans and importantly your board. Many people complain about the fact you have to start in the basement league but, for me, it adds an extra sense of realism.
Premier Manager 3 is an old school classic game, i remember spending evenings as a youngster managing Halifax Town to premiership glory! Hours spent wheeling and dealing through seasons of cup wins and heartbreaking defeats. Starting out as a new manager you can only take control of a conference side and spend time pulling them up through the leagues building on your reputation as a manager with your fans and importantly your board. Many people complain about the fact you have to start in the basement league but, for me, it adds an extra sense of realism.
A nice feature of the game is the phone option to scour clubs for any bargains to strengthen your club using details from your scouts to find that
all important star player, the usual transfer list is there but with an improved since of negotiation with players to strike out the best deal for you and usually more so for your player!
The match day elements have been changed from the previous premier manager games with a match view, not the old scoreboard, this in turn leads you into a more tactically engrossing match. As the game plots the position of your players you feel more in control when you change the tactics, again adding to the sense of realism and reducing the random results the other games in the series suffered from. Again the tactic editing system could meak or breaks a season proving your worthiness as a managerial god.
Transfers, contracts and finance management are all massively important, and the improvement of the stadium also adds to the overall feel of the game. Also important is the backroom staff you employ building your team and ground from the bottom, and improve your squat from year to year the game never feels dull, with longevity on its side as it takes time to build your small club up from the bottom to Premier glory, if you want to take steps quicker the end of seasons you can leave your beloved club for one in a higher division (providing you have impressed in your previous season) or you could even challenge yourself and move back down a division to try and pull another team up from the dull drums of obscurity.
Even though players’ names are out of date you don’t care. (Or can edit them in the team selection menu) You feel for your club through cup wins and drastic injuries to your star forward... A great old school game!
