MYFC brings football management to iPhone
Manage Your Football Club by touch alone
Developer Sports Director is working on its first football management simulation for iPhone, and we've had an exclusive first look at the game.
It's called Manage Your Football Club (MYFC for short), has been developed by handheld firm Sports Director, and is due for release later this month. Oh, and we've played it!
The single-player game lets you take charge of any club in the top four UK divisions - Premier League down to League 2 - with accurate player and team names.
It's certainly comprehensive, cramming in tactics, training, transfers, finances and more statistics than you can shake a sheepskin coat at. You even get to build a youth team - an often-neglected element in management sims.
The thing that impressed us most from our hands-on with MYFC was the interface: Sports Director has clearly done a lot of work on the game's UI, from the slide-based training controls to the way you swipe between formations as if browsing photos on your iPhone.
There looks to be plenty of depth too - it's from the Football Manager school of management sims, with huge scope for tactical tweaking and squad-building, right down to individual player training to mould them just so.
The matches offer text-based commentary on what's happening, while a ball icon whizzes around a 2D pitch to show you roughly where the action is.
MYFC isn't quite the first football manager game for iPhone - that accolade goes to the just-released Soccer Manager.
We're keen to see how the two compare: in the absence (so far) of big guns like Football Manager and Championship Manager, there's a statto-shaped hole to be filled on iPhone.
Check out our video run-through of MYFC below:
