Some words about me and writing this game:

I play soccer simulations as long as I can think, Gary Lineker's Superstar Soccer ("English soccer"), Player Manager 1, Championship Manager and of course Sensible Soccer have been my favourites. But I don't like most of the soccer simulations nowadays. Championship Manager is the only good soccer simulation in my opinion that "survived". In most of the new soccer simulations you don't really play anymore. You press the pass button and your player plays the perfect pass or you press the shoot button and the player shoots a goal or the goalie saves it. I miss the feeling of playing yourself - making the mistakes by your own and not by the lacking computer intelligence or something else. That is why I decided to write this game. There has not been a soccer simulation with a better game-play than Sensible Soccer in the last years. And the SWOS-series unfortunately died. The Sensible Soccer game-play was great, but not perfect: in every match you scored goals nearly the same way, you knew how to run to pass the opponent's defenders. That's one point I try to change. Another thing is the automatical pass system. I tried it - and I tried without passes automatically reaching the player. It's much more amazing - you might see yourself in December - when you need to control that yourself. That was one of the things I preferred in the Kick Off series. Playing was not as easy as in Sensible Soccer.

About the player career mode:

I know you all have been waiting for this: play a career as a single player! First you create your own player. Enter your name, choose the age you want to start at, choose your hair-colour, position, side and such things (you can also play a real goalie career!). Then you will be shown your skills and characteristics. Either you take them or you reroll and get new characteristics. After that you start your career. At first you won't have a team. But you will get some offers soon. Only from smaller teams as a prospect. Maybe some better teams as a backup player. It's up to you which contract you sign. Play well and you will stay in the team or get offers from better teams. You play a whole soccer career, your skills will improve if you play well and they will decrease again when you get old. But don't believe it will be easy to get an offer from a top-team. It's gonna be hard, there might be more players playing your position in the team. And only one will play. The manager will decide, not you this time. Maybe the manager is unhappy with you and he buys another player and you lose your place in the team. I put much of hard work in the artificial intelligence of computer managers and computer players. It's going to be hard for you to play better than the others.

The experimental side of this game:

• The talent system: your player will improve more if you play well. You'll get statistics and a rating after every match to see the things you've done well and also your faults. If you leave your position too often your manager also might be unhappy. How well you play also depends on your team. Your potential might increase more if you play in the first team of a top-club, even if you don't play well, than being the star in a conference league team.
• Unknown teams get random players: if there are no players defined in the configuration files, teams will get random players (random age, random potential, random skills etc). That means - if you want - you can play with 10 divisions or more in one country. You just have to define the team-names and what you know about a team and the team automatically gets filled with random players. But you can also enter player-names, positions, age and their skills.
• Youth team: promote players from the youth team. You have to try them to see how good they play. You don't know much about their potential, maybe it takes a season or some more to see how good they can become.
• Artificial intelligence: all computer players behave as intelligently as possible. It takes a lot of cpu power, but I think it's worth it. If a player sees that another player has a better position than him, he'll play a pass, if he has room for a forward-run, he'll do the forward-run. There are no runways predefined, they are calculated in real-time. Also computer players do headers and bicycle kicks, cross the ball, play high, long balls in the penalty-area. Depending on the player characteristics.
• Intelligent computer managers: if a player does not play well, he might lose his place in the first team. Even if he has a higher rating. He might check the alternatives. The computer manager also only tries to buy players that he thinks are going to improve the team. He creates a special tactic for his team. No pre-defined tactics. That's why every match against the computer will be different.