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I had fond memories of playing this as a young lad, and I spent three years trying to get it running again on modern hardware before finally succeeding last month. While PL STARS couldn’t hold my interest for long, PL FM2K was a different matter. I only asked Father Christmas for a new FIFA 2000 disc, as my original CD was so badly scratched and worn out, but those extra two games were a nice surprise. I got my copy of PL FM2K as a Christmas present in circa 2001, as part of a three-game box set with FIFA 2000 and PL STARS. I’m not even including the official UEFA Euro 2000 game, which just proves how much EA milked their licences in those days! This was one of THREE football video games EA published in the 1999/2000 season, the others being FA Premier League STARS (a bizarre FIFA/RPG mashup which had a cool dance soundtrack) and FIFA 2000. The general consensus was that it was a solid and good-looking effort, but that it would only have a short shelf life before Championship Manager 3 blew it away a few months later.Īnd that brings me onto FA Premier League Football Manager 2000, which I’ll mercifully shorten to PL FM2K from now on. Instead, the Californian behemoths agreed a licensing deal with the Premier League, which spawned FA Premier League Football Manager 99 – again developed by EA UK, and released in late 1998. ‘Mr Tracksuit’ – the star of the original game’s iconic FMV clips – quietly got the boot, never to be seen again.

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Here is the game that dragged this series kicking and screaming into the new millennium – FA Premier League Football Manager 2000.Īfter releasing FIFA Soccer Manager in early 1997, EA decided not to put out a sequel in the 1997/1998 season. I’ve already looked at the original release, but now it’s time to fast-forward a couple of years, to 1999. Throughout this month, I will be reviewing a number of titles from EA Sports’ FIFA Manager series, which was a major player in the genre from 1997 to 2013.

This is the second part of my ‘EA MAY’ mini-series. Hello there, folks, and I’m glad you could join me for another ‘retro review’, in which I take a retrospective look at a football management game from years gone by.

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