Designed to streamline the playing experience for veterans and provide an extra helping hand to newcomers, Classic mode is seemingly an admission from the developers that the core game of Football Manager is perhaps becoming too big, too complex, and too time-consuming for anyone with a job, partner, and/or need for sleep (or, at the very least, aspirations to experience such things). It's odd, then, that-in a gesture of what is likely supreme self-awareness-Football Manager 2013's biggest new feature is Classic mode. The new Classic mode features menus that are simpler and easier to digest.

Addicts who want more detail, more leagues, and more chances to turn an underperforming minnow into a blossoming goliath of the game.

By focusing on stats and raw data, Sports Interactive has distilled the beautiful game down to a form that has created a 20-year line of addicts.

It's one of the beautiful things about the Football Manager series-every game is different, every player plays differently, and every team provides a different challenge.

Football manager 13 download