Championship Manager 01/02

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Championship Manager 01/02

Developer(s)	Sports Interactive
Publisher(s)	Eidos Interactive
Platform(s)	PC
Release date	October 12, 2001 (PC), November 16, 2001 (Mac), April 14, 2002 (Xbox)
Genre(s)	Sport, Management
Mode(s)	Single-player, hotseat-multiplayer, online multiplayer
Rating(s)	ELSPA: 3+
Media	CD-ROM
System requirements	Pentium 133 or better, 16MB RAM, 4x speed CD-ROM drive, DirectX 7, Windows 95
Input methods	Mouse & keyboard

Championship Manager 01/02 is a football management computer game in the Sports Interactive's Championship Manager series. It was released in October 2001 exclusively for PC and for Mac in November 2001. It was also later released on Xbox in April 2002.

1 New features
2 Playable leagues
- 2.1 Europe
- 2.2 Rest of the World
3 Criticisms
4 Community
5 See also
6 Screenshots

[edit] New features

Although never particularly expanding on the graphical side, Sports Interactive included many new features along with the usual updated database. Championship Manager 01/02 implemented the new EU regulated transfer system, introduced in September 2001, and also featured a new attribute masking mode, whereby the player could only see information about footballers he/she would realistically know about (also known as a fog of war).

Other new additions included the ability to send players away for surgery, player notes, player comparisons, and improved media and board interaction.

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[edit] Playable leagues

This edition of Championship Manager included about a hundred fully playable leagues in twenty-six countries, and the final official patch 3.9.68 added South Korea's K-League, its first appearance in the CM series. The full list of playable leagues in CM01/02 is as follows:

[edit] Europe

[edit] Rest of the World

[edit] Criticisms

The 01/02 edition has not been without its critics however. Some have criticised the simple graphics, while others have complained about the difficulty (namely, the game being too easy). Another main reason for criticism was the existence of 'cheat players' - i.e. players whose abilities in the game are far greater than in real life, these players being inexpensive and very effective in game. An example of a cheat player is Tó Madeira, who is not actually a real life player. Others such as Maxim Tsigalko and the infamous 'super Greeks' were also over rated by a considerable amount.

Whilst non-real life players are considered cheating by the experienced players of CM 01/02, the "Super Greeks" and "Super Swedes", and other players such as Cherno Samba & Franco Costanzo and NUFCFan are considered perfectly fine. For example the player Kim Källström was considered to be vastly over-rated and would never amount to anything, yet recently has made a name for himself as "the Swedish Steven Gerrard."

It is also possible to cheat by appointing new managers for two teams who are due to play one another.

For the first time, the game did not include background pictures of the ground at which the current game was being played.

[edit] Community

Many Internet communities are dedicated to CM 01/02, preferring it to the later editions, such as the Football Manager series and Championship Manager 5. A high proportion of these websites are also dedicated to editing the game, attempting to make it more up-to-date and realistic.

One such community is www.champman0102.co.uk[2], a site dedicated to keeping this game alive. They offer full updates and patches to bring the game up to date with today's transfer and much much more. A new February 2008 update has just been released by the owners of the site, free to download.