Think i might do a career game, and start with lowest rep and build my way up. Probably jumping jobs if a much better team comes in.
Very difficult to compare, but obviously FM is miles ahead of manager mode on FIFA. Never played FIFA manager or whatever its called though.
I generally prefer FM, but have to go on FIFA now and then because I like when I score the goals myself.
Football Manager is more in depth than Fifa in the managerial sense, but people who play Fifa would like to play as well as manage the team, and managing your team on Fifa is still a complex job. If you're one of the lower clubs that is. You've got to nurture your young players, manage fitness and make the right choices for appearances, manage player growth, spend wisely and achieve your clubs aims on your given budget in order to receive transfer funds. Also every player is a complex item, you have to decide what you need, pace, strength, jumping ability, vision, tactical awareness ect. Fifa is better IMO
I agree with most of what you said (I like them equally ) but I find it is quite easy to manage lower league teams, sell all the dross and you have enough money to build a decent team and work your way up
It's the wage budget that pisses me off. You get a decent sum for transfers but you can't afford their wages.
It is annoying, but I find that, if you start in league 2, the free agents are better than your squad and you use budget change or whatever it is, and make all the money available mainly for wages to pay the free agents
On FIFA? Go on transfers then budget allocation. You can only change it about 3 times a season though so be careful.
Transfers - Budget Allocation Useful if you need the extra 5K wages for whatever reason. EDIT - Beat me to it
Non is better as they are both different games. Saying that, I play FIFA more probably because I like the control and it also might have something to do with the fact I'm terrible a FM FIFAs new manager mode looks exciting for next year since they're including scouts, academy's etc If you want a slightly arcade like be the team experience where you have a simple but yet fun manager mode go for FIFA If you want a completely authentic, purely managerial experience go for FM
The thing I love about FM is that at the beginning its exciting building your team and working the free agent market (I once got Amdy Faye and Steed Malbranque for Bradford) then early games are fun, january is very interestong, then the run in iis great and then you see who won the awards and then you are building your team again
