MCM launches mobile football manager sim
And it involves text messages
I have a dream that one day, someone will make the best football manager game ever for mobile phones.
You'll pick your team, tweak tactics and training, and then buy and sell players from your phone. But every other manager will be human too - your decisions will all be uploaded to a central server that does the processing stuff, then sends you back match reports.
Nokia should get someone to do it for N-Gage, or Sega should start working on a Football Manager Online for iPhone. It'd be genius.
Anyway, MCM isn't that game, but it's a step in the right direction, being a mobile football manager that makes use of connectivity.
Developed by a company called Sanco, it's launching to tie in with Euro 2008, allowing you to manage one of 16 top European teams (weirdly, that includes England), working on training, formations and tactics.
The training happens via mini-games played on your phone, including weight training, shot stopping and ball control. You then pick a team, formation and strategy, and upload it all to the MCM server. And then wait for a text message to come back with updates on how your team is doing.
It certainly sounds intriguing. Sanco is offering a free trial if you text GoMCM to the 60777 shortcode here in the UK, which includes ten SMS messages. After that, each text from the service costs 25p.
