Manage your own team with Football Director DS
First DS football management game steps onto the pitch
Who'd have thought it? DS seems to have managed to support a wide variety of games involving everything from managing zoos to taking part in ice skating competitions, but no one's thought of making a football management game for it.
Until now, that is. Courtesy of Sports Director and "veteran football management game designer" Roger Womack (who has worked on Championship Manager, FA Premier League Manager and Football World Manager), Football Director DS is on its way to Nintendo's handheld.
The game uses the official Football League licence, so features accurate teams, statistics and player data, and has been developed especially for DS. So that means it's got all the depth football management fans are normally after, but also simple pick-up-and-play gameplay and the ability to play bite-sized, five-minute chunks if you fancy.
So, you take control of your favourite team then make it the best possible by wheeling and dealing in the transfer market, choosing from the 3,800 players in the game's database. You then improve your squad using the training and tactics functions.
On match day, you then get to take your place in the "virtual technical area" and direct proceedings such as playing styles and formations as the match takes place.
As suggested by the title Football Director, though, you're not just managing a football team. As director, you're responsible for hiring and firing non-playing staff and other back room team members, and also controlling the club's financial performance, paying wages and sorting out contracts. Which all sounds a bit like proper work to us, but each to their own.
If you've been hankering after a football management game for your DS (and according to Sports Director's data, 50 per cent of UK DS owners are football fans so at least half of you should be interested) then you can look out for this stylus-using, data-packed simulation in September.
