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Meanwhile major sport franchises such as Madden NFL and FIFA were met with lukewarm critical reception for games that did not have significant feature updates. Similar issues have dogged some of the year's biggest releases with The Last of Us Part II and Halo among the blockbuster games to be delayed due to COVID-19. Such demand for the game has seen numbers at Sports Interactive swell with the studio size increasing by 20 percent as developers battled the labyrinthine challenge of making a new iteration from home. The average player spent 500 hours with their copy of FM20, double the previous year's record. Before they gave the game away, their previous record for concurrent players on the game had been 80,000, after it stood at 189,000.

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A record 1.8million people played its 2020 edition, which was made available for free during a two week period in March. Jacobson reveals that injuries have occurred with '80 or 90 per cent' of the frequency in game that they happen in the real world 'and people still complain that it's too high'.įootball Manager 2021 diverges from this one fundamental aspect of modern football at the end of a year when it proved to be a vital salve for those in lockdown. Of course what feels real and reality are not always the same.

Nor will the empty stadiums that have been a sad sight for supporters across Europe. This year's iteration of the game, released earlier this month, is not ''COVID-free' but virtual coaches will not see players contract coronavirus as they might a common cold or food poisoning (both of which appear in game and force game players to decide whether to isolate one individual squad member or rush them back to training). But the pandemic will not be one of them.

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The Football Manager series has delighted millions of gamers around the world by giving them a chance to take a facsimile of the real world and shape it their own way, to deal with the tactical, financial and physical challenges that managers face every day. Last weekend Mohamed Salah was unavailable for Liverpool's top of the table clash with Leicester City, Luis Suarez missed his reunion with Barcelona whilst Tottenham had to do without key defender Matt Doherty for their game against Manchester City.Īnd yet, for those playing perhaps the world's most detailed and realistic depiction of football, coronavirus goes largely unnoticed. COVID-19 has ravaged the sport and as a second wave spreads across Europe and beyond clubs are having to deal with the ramifications of their players contracting the virus.

It has been the defining issue of football's 2020-21 season.

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