Getting DIVORCED?!? We Are Football 2024 First Look | Football Manager Competitor!

[@DodgeeGamer]

Thank you as always for watching and scrolling down to the comments. What are your thoughts on We Are Football 2024? If you are panning to get the game, please consider using my affiliate link via Fanatical (Steam Key): www.fanatical.com/en/game/we-are-football-2024?ref=dodgee

[@TheUniversalGamer87]

Could you check if Falkirk is In the game scottish club currently only one unbeaten in the UK 😎 please

[@TheAlphaDingo]

I like the focus on things like sponsors and managing fan relations - good to see some new ideas in the genre. I love FM but nothing wrong with competition to push innovation forward

[@DodgeeGamer]

100% agreed

[@Alpukat_]

Agree, and i hope wa can to see the feature like finding sponsor, build stadium, better newgen face and other feature on fm 2025 (new game engine)

[@riquelmeone]

funny thing is, in Germany this is the history of football managers. We always had games that included sponsors, stadiums and personal life.

[@No-de6wt]

@@Alpukat_ yep

[@pnksmigge5324]

EA's football manager 2002 already allowed you to find sponsors for every individual board and you always had to balance term vs money. Game also allowed you to spend your money on meaningless stuff like Helis or apartments, which was nice.

[@rockerfarm6445]

as a german it's hillarious that you took an unknown team over freaking Wacker Burghausen and Rot-Weiß Ahlen xD

[@DodgeeGamer]

Intentional or not, I always go for the obscure 😅

[@arthurlunar7835]

You could even see the abundant media pressure on Burghausen and know its a more big team

[@FMJellico]

IIRC the last version of the game didn't have a 3d engine, so this is a step forward in the right direction. Will be interesting to see how they move forward, and if what they do differently has some appeal.

[@DodgeeGamer]

I didn't know that - good then that they have made some pretty big changes already and will hopefully continue developing the franchise

[@petergtterup4205]

Last game was shiiiet

[@Tarks_Coady_EFC]

​@@petergtterup4205agreed - long way to go for them, but the attention they've been getting may drive them to make a quality game

[@AndyKusanagi86]

i think it had, but only used it for the club facilities, not to show matches. this one having a match engine (a bit rough, but not bad overall), plus national teams, are the two biggest differentials.

[@ParkeraNZ]

Interesting is all I can say atm, but always good to see these alternative ones and hey they got to start somewhere.

[@benedictwallis1993]

I like the idea of this, takes me back to similar elements of FIFA Manager where you had ultimate control over the stadium, sponsorship, running of the club, training camps etc… just let down by the poor match engine. However, I like the look and feel of this and will buy it just to help with the development in the future :) lacking the 3D match engine really but FM had years to develop theirs so let’s hope for a continued development :)

[@DodgeeGamer]

Apparently the 3d engine is new for this version so hopefully will improve! I will be doing a more detailed playthrough video over the weekend - looking forward to getting to grips with it

[@OrangeBananaPear]

Shoutout USM98

[@ToriTrak]

As far as I know the guy that did the Anstoss games (german football manager) that also worked on total club manager 2002 and 2003 worked on this game. So you can clearly see his fingerprints with all the stuff you can do.

[@filidorable]

It's nice to see a football management game which doesn't suffer from spreadsheetitis! It reminds me of Ultimate Football Manager from way back when, which is no bad thing imo. Yes I'd like to see a season play through. This looks promising.....

[@DodgeeGamer]

Season play through is in the works!

[@chrisgrove4265]

Loved ultimate soccer manager , came out when I was about 11 . The hours I lost to that and champ man is mad

[@calumyoutube5607]

@@chrisgrove4265Loved a bung offer on that game. The stadium customisation was great to

[@aelfredrex8354]

I'm looking at buying an old Win 98 laptop just to play it again. My last try at it kept crashing when I'd win the FA Cup.

[@robertvries1]

Thanks so much for reviewing this. Hadn't heard about this game yet and was cool to get your take on it. Cheers mate

[@DodgeeGamer]

Glad to be of service!

[@SirDBee]

This game feels like a mixture of Ultimate Soccer Manager (I saw someone else in the comments call this out - good spot!) and the German management game ‘Kicker’ (aka ‘Ally McCoists Director of Football’ in the UK). It’s an alternative for sure!

[@Masked_Official]

How can SI not give us these beautiful training ground views and also made it so people can edit it as mods and let us use the modded stadiums. I don't know why SI care so little about the graphics, sounds and expand the game visually.

[@DodgeeGamer]

I would love to see more realistic stadiums in FM. The multi-tiered stands with empty corners always bug me!

[@Biomirth]

SI don't care because they print money every year. They need serious competition to do anything.

[@4stevio]

Yeah would be great to have a dodgy, rickety old stadium in the lower leagues and actually be able to work on it if the club is successful.

[@spiderbootsy]

Theyre revamping the entire graphics engine for next years edition

[@Masked_Official]

@@spiderbootsy I honestly feel your overestimating the upgrade. They haven't even touched the sounds in the game (other than adding official songs) since the DOWNGRADE in 2004. They will probably never have beautiful graphics or visuals to show training grounds and such. They literally forced modders to take down ad board mods. The only company I have heard of that sent letters to modders to STOP upgrading graphics for fun. While you think I am talking out of my backside, I have been a tester for SI, on/off across two decades. I even appear in the credits of the game. I lost faith in the company a few years back.

[@FWB_Nikos]

Looks like they would benefit from having a native English writer work on the English language content - would make the whole experience a lot more accessible.

[@Fight1Club]

Fifa Manager vibes. Logos/real players and development of game and we have a gem. Monopoly FM has is unhealthy for its future.

[@DodgeeGamer]

There is a real name fix and logo latch available. I have a video on it coming out later today

[@adeyt205]

The one person i’d like to see review and play this is yourself. Interested to see what you think.

[@narza4167]

Yall remember Fifa Manager from EA

[@DodgeeGamer]

Classic!

[@TheUniversalGamer87]

EA needs to bring it back and add scottish leagues and other leagues like football manager

[@Dharcness]

Wow, this is a breath of fresh air from FM. Just a question though, is it possible to play full match instead of just highlights?

[@gemini6152]

I've been playing We are Football 2024. I created my own team and started in the lowest level in England. I'm 3 seasons in, broke, and running my team into the ground. With that said, it's a fun game. I'd like to see you try a season if you have time. Have a good one!

[@gursur15]

LMAO

[@star_wars_miniatures]

LMA Manager 2007 you can’t beat it 👌🏻👌🏻 easily the best manager game and fast approaching 20 years old!

[@ballsdeep5336]

The damn loading tomes on LMA is the biggest problem, you could have a nap before and after every match😂, they were great though

[@propman1823]

Lma manager was my fav game on ps2 dam

[@star_wars_miniatures]

@@propman1823 we still have many active LMA 2007 players on a 2,000 strong Facebook group at the moment posting new stuff everyday! Worth checking out!

[@Dragophonix]

​@@ballsdeep5336I'd go for a toilet and get a snack and it would still be 50% by the time I got back 😂

[@TheOldreactor]

Finally some alternative for FM. Last FM i have is fm 21. This one looks good. Every year people ask for chairman mode in FM and now I can have it. Friday evening is sorted with this one 😂

[@DodgeeGamer]

Enjoy!

[@XKXOUzy5E9]

Guys, football tactics and glory is well worth a look, totally unique.

[@AussieVillain]

It's hard to not look at it as football manager but there were a few good ideas in there would you say? Maybe not zombie apocalypse training and divorce, but some of the training and time planning stuff looked interesting

[@DodgeeGamer]

Agreed and I definitely want to take a closer look at transfers, contact negotiations, etc. The whole approach of scheduling your week and the infusion of planning meetings, sponsorship events, junior recruitment days and so on looks great. The zombie apocalypse and sudden breakdown of my marriage were a bit lost on me though 😅

[@trilloclock3449]

A lot of inspo from Fifa manager but Fifa manager 2024 mod still the best out there.

[@Nitehawkmk77]

Be interesting to see a run through of the season does remind me of football director as mentioned. But what i saw from your content not convinced by the game.

[@DodgeeGamer]

I'm hoping to get a seaosn playthrough video out next week!

[@stefhunt7467]

I lost it when Katie filed for divorce. I too was surprised

[@dankeers3124]

Total club manager had the same sort of thing in the personal life activities.

[@AndyKusanagi86]

i like that this game pretty much lets you play any way you want. and, unlike FM, it's available in my country.

[@Tsass0]

Yes, i have picked up 2024 after finishing the my season in We are football. This is the same developer i bereave that did the ???2005 Football Manager??? or something around that area. I loved that too

[@DodgeeGamer]

Same developers who did one of the old FIFA Manager games I believe

[@Londronable]

I think the question of "more control" being better or not is an interesting one in these types of games. Many people are annoyed with say, how the stadiums work in FM. And while I agree it can be frustrating, it's also sort of part of the job. The manager of the team doesn't have control over everything. Is adapting to the management making decisions over your head part of the game? Or should we develop it and let the player control these things as well? Same for sponsors and such. It's not really the manager's problem in real life. Should it be added?

[@Poggia17]

Would love to see you make a series of this game

[@DodgeeGamer]

Working on it!

[@marianmarian8956]

Hello, is there a way to access the home page?(The page where you see all the things for your club)Sometimes when I have many activities I can only press the button to advance,and I'd like to do other things between matches.Thank you

[@btechninja4952]

as much as I love fm, I do hope they take some inspiration from this game and add some more personal features like they have

[@MarkQuinn2k7]

This may seem like a small thing, but to me it says a lot about the polish of the game. I noticed some teams had home and away kits that were almost identical. One of the teams you were given to choose at the start had an all red kit and an all red kit with white sleeves. I saw something similar when you were choosing a team for a friendly match. This tells me kit clashing will be a constant problem in this game. I know there's an editor, but is it the duty of the player now to fix hundreds of kits that the devs couldn't get right on their own? Since this video only showed a small sampling of teams and I saw the problem twice, I have to believe it's a constant issue. I scratched this game off my list once I saw the second example of this. It speaks to the developer's inability to create a polished game and pay attention to details. They know they have a 3D engine, they know these teams will be displayed on the pitch. Am I to believe that none of the devs found themselves in a game with one team wearing all red and another team wearing all red with white sleeves; or if they did find themselves in such a game, how did they possibly think it was acceptable not being able to tell the two teams apart? I imagine someone might read this and say, "But it's a tiny development team." To that I would remind them that it takes the same amount of time to create a club with an all red home kit and an all white away kit as it does to make a club with two kits that are essentially identical.

[@DodgeeGamer]

Thanks for the detailed comment - one thing I initially recorded but then edited out was that you can change the kits when you take over a club, but you are right that it would be better if the defaults were 'proper' home and away kits. The real name fix and graphics pack is easy to install and I will post a video on that later this week.

[@Mazzus21]

I can't even count the number of times I've had kit clashes in FM24...Just saying. If we're going to hold a smaller dev team to that nitpicky of a standard then we should do the same for SI and FM24.

[@ErAckman]

I'm actually watching this on my TV right now

[@violiavimal4213]

you know why when i just finished a season and start new one my team spirit drops by 50 points no matter what my choices for new season is any ideas?

[@biirdman89]

I tried the demo. I really like how much more indepth it csn get than FM. It's really good and the UI/DB feels good. Player's have peraolities that make sense. The main reason i haven't gotten further than the demo is because of the match engine, it's no where near FM. I dont get why too. No hate on developers, i know its hsrd to make a game but i play FM because i like to watch football, i want to see my players play, score goals with the best animations, graphics possible. If you can't compete with FM's ME, why bother??

[@DodgeeGamer]

Hopefully the ME will evolve for future iterations

[@MysterioPerrito]

This is what I’m thinking too, I’m sticking with FM until their match engine is better

[@ammarmaric1834]

Looks interesting! I wouldnt care about bugs and lack of some things due to the small development team behind the game but one thing that absolutely needs an improving is the UI design of the game. Looks way too cheap, distracting, funky and arcady. A clean sleek minimalistic UI of Football Manager is what makes it a great game, it gives a feeling of professionalism, realism and quality behind it. If Dev. could find a UI designer who would collab on the project it would be the best possible move for the future of it.

[@ammarmaric1834]

And most important of all, its easier for the eyes and brain to focus on gameplay with a good sleek UI

[@barrykettell7499]

Just finished playing the demo,will probably get the game makes a change from football manager.

[@DodgeeGamer]

Cool - what did you enjoy about the game?

[@barrykettell7499]

@@DodgeeGamer everything,they were the developers of the fifa manager games, and I used to spend hours and hours it had everything in it.

[@Mad_FanGamingReactions]

Amazing I’ve subbed

[@DodgeeGamer]

thank you! 😎

[@RafaelBeloRocha]

Eu gosto disso. Pra mim o único "problema" é guardar. É mais fácil guardar as capas cartão que com grampos. Destrói menos as hqs

[@marksaunders758]

This looks like a mickey mouse version for FM (the badges, kits, pitch, graphics looks far off pace) I'm all for competition but implying this going to be a anywhere near FM in your video is crazy, love the passion but your either financially profiting from sales or marketing this or you've not actually compared them.... like the different play idea's tho

[@bensafc4life883]

how many seasons can you do in this game?

[@DodgeeGamer]

Not sure to be honest - there was no mention of a season cap on the Steam page or official website

[@Tsass0]

Did you do any other We Are Football 2024 videos?

[@DodgeeGamer]

Never got round to it in the end - FM just takes up too much time!

[@pafnus3188]

May you show us single match simulation mode? 😊

[@DodgeeGamer]

Definitely!

[@MushagasheNative]

reminds me of old fifa manager

[@philipgreen8091]

Nice video mate . Never tried this kind of game before but this might entice me to have a go at it.

[@DodgeeGamer]

Cheers! Let us know if you get it and which team you play with

[@philipgreen8091]

Would also like to see a play through.

[@DodgeeGamer]

Definitely considering it!

[@Biomirth]

This looks good. But is it good? How is the career after 50 hours, 100?

[@PasOdMater]

I always wanted the social aspect to be added to FM just so that I have something to do with the money I'm earning. Otherwise, I just put my wage demands to the lowest possible so they don't influence the finances of my club.

[@Masked_Official]

I am guessing this is Total Club Manager we had in the early 2000's and probably a lot of the same developers.

[@DodgeeGamer]

Not sure about TCM, but they definitely have some people from the FIFA Manager team

[@Masked_Official]

@@DodgeeGamerI just looked, FIFA Manager and Total Club Manager were basically same thing, just in 2006 the name changed.

[@Masked_Official]

@@DodgeeGamerI remember now, TCM always used EA's older FIFA engines for their match engine.

[@Masked_Official]

@@DodgeeGamerTCM/FIFA manage always had the awesome options for stadium building, and day to day events, really fun and wholesome features. It just lacked a good match engine and database and league rules. It always had what FM didn't and what I wish FM would incorporate.

[@GengakuM]

Reminds me alot of fifa manager12/13 back in the day

[@markdillon5494]

Ive never understood in these days post FIFA and PES that in game engines on football manager games still look like they did in the 80's.

[@DodgeeGamer]

80s was a birds eye view with text and a flashing screen for a goal! Still, I get your point. This is more LMA Manager than EAFC

[@discodave2103]

Did they get the 3D match engine from an old Amiga game?

[@DodgeeGamer]

Sensible World of Soccer - that's what we need!

[@NelsonQuintansdaSilva]

Gameplay needs a little adjust but looks amazing

[@conorhegarty4611]

Is it available on xboxs

[@DodgeeGamer]

PC only as far as I can tell

[@JulienTheRoo]

This game overwhelmed me at first lol

[@iankinnell5643]

I think on the original i created the A league as it didnt have Australia

[@glennycampbell]

I bet Sports Interactive are shitting themselves.

[@KeagyG1]

Some great ideas and some .. comical ones! I like the how this is looking, has great potential but definitely needs some polishing and "un-americanising" hahah

[@DodgeeGamer]

Yes, time will tell if the amusing quirks become annoyances or not!

[@Flickzy1]

It could have been better if these features had been added in Football Manager maan

[@ivanlimzg]

Looks like a FIFA MANAGER Clone

[@DodgeeGamer]

True! I believe some of the developers were involved in FIFA Manager back in the day

[@ivanlimzg]

@@DodgeeGamer still like FIFAM better

[@michaeloswal9847]

​@@ivanlimzg Thinking on buying this one but don't know if I should. Just got FIFA manager 10 and loved it. What is it you like more about FIFA manager that misses in this game? (Could help me decide between FM24 and this one)

[@riquelmeone]

it's designed by Gerald Koehler who has a huge football manager legacy in Germany. He did work for EA and looked after their manager series as well for some time. de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_K%C3%B6hler This is his latest development.

[@ivanlimzg]

@@riquelmeone hm, i see where the inspiration comes from

[@magnus2400]

When do you start at? Let's play serious with. We are football. 2024?

[@DodgeeGamer]

Struggling for time at the moment but definitely want to do a full season playthrough!

[@jordalvideo9638]

If it was on IOS I would have got it but for a pc game id rahter get football manager

[@middler5]

Director of Football and accountancy 2024 more like. It's not a direct competitor.

[@filipedominguesmendes4224]

I'm sticking with FM... Spain 2 tiers? Italy 2 tiers? Is this a joke? And the 3D engine is terrible... It looks like a typical german silulator, like the Autobahn SImulator, which are all terrible...

[@StaceyEllis1968]

some nice ideas but 1980s 8bit match means sorry but I'm out

[@jackjude]

it's not Dominik Diamond! 🤣

[@TheDamirBosna]

This feels like a mobile game from 10 years ago 😅

[@BenningsWhu]

Football manager will never be beaten

[@dannyduro]

this game looks like it came straight from 1998

[@MalikChildish]

10 minutes, gets a divorce lmao

[@azri842]

No Malaysia? Meh

[@DodgeeGamer]

Not in the base game, but it is included in the community database by FM Zecker. Check out this video to see how to download it: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jXSUf2pmqbCBqKM

[@azri842]

@@DodgeeGamer I see. Still waiting FM 25 with new engine

[@Darkmountaindweller]

It’s giving fifa manager vibes

[@richnesbitt312]

This looks like Fifa Manager

[@bueasink7650]

Dont get me wrong i am all for competition, but leaving out African leagues is a travesty. FM failed to add leagues from that continent, whose leageus are doing pretty fine if i may add. Its sad that these guys equally neglected that as well. atleast FM added just the South African league at some point.

[@JoeyJoJoJoestarJuniorShabadoo]

I already hate Whistley more than Clippy.

[@SandbagG45]

Safe to say you hated that :D

[@DodgeeGamer]

Why do you say that? 🤔

[@stigm1318]

i live in Burghausen hahahaah

[@therealENENRA]

Looks like total shit 😂

[@DodgeeGamer]

😂Fair enough

[@Gankesaurus]

Usch. Ser ut som skit i match motorn. Usch...

[@TheUniversalGamer87]

No because this game disrespects scottish football 14 clubs really there's 4 leagues = 42 clubs so disrespectful football manager atleast has EVER CLUB and game is on consoles bet this is pc only 😂

[@theduggs1949]

How dare you.

[@kiezorfc8559]

I think I will stick to FM this looks meh

[@realrap5150]

engine is shyte

[@Otto500206]

Who cares about this when FIFA Manager 24 exists?

[@DodgeeGamer]

Does it? I thought the last FIFA manager came in in 2014

[@Otto500206]

@@DodgeeGamer It's a mod for it and it's more detailed than every single official FIFA release ever!

[@Pedro.Chapps]

god no this looks Shite. Defo not my cupa tea

[@woldevilman]

This Is cringe