Sports Interactive took a massive risk with this year’s annual update to Football Manager by pre-announcing that FM25 will be a complete graphical overhaul of the game. That put Football Manager 2024 in grave danger of being a stopgap, one to miss ahead of next year’s big revamp. However, Sports Interactive has done more than enough to justify the £40 outlay.
Ironically, the biggest improvements in FM24 come to that graphical match engine. Player animations are much smoother and more varied, especially when it comes to dribbling. Players such as Mbappe, Rashford and Neymar now cut inside, glide past opponents and shimmy past two or three before scoring spectacular goals that clearly distinguish them from the part-time sheep farmers in the Latvian League.
