LMA Manager 2007 to Appear in September

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It's been a breathless summer of football, with head-butts flying, Portuguese winking, Juventus being demoted, O'Leary walking? but we haven't even got to the main event yet. LMA Manager is back just in time for the start of the domestic football season. It has set the standard in the football management field for over five years on consoles and come the start of the new 2006/2007 season, LMA Manager 2007 launches for PC and the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft in late September. A completely new and updated PlayStation 2 edition of LMA Manager 2007, will also launch in late September.

Designed and developed by Codemasters' internal LMA team, which has expanded its unparalleled expertise to include a dedicated PC development team, LMA Manager 2007 utilises a new game and database engine to handle more teams, a Transfer Market system with greater depth enabling more complex contract negotiations, a detailed 3D match section that brings the reality of match day to life and a host of advancements that specifically take advantage of the formats' capabilities. The training system has also been upgraded on all platforms to make it the most realistic training system yet in the LMA series.

LMA Manager 2007 contains all of the summer transfer up to the start of August ? then all budding football managers will be able to keep their game completely up to date with a free online download of the remainder of the transfer window stats on all platforms once the game is released. Of course, it already features Juventus in Serie B on ?17 points and the teams up to date with big summer transfers so far such as Shevchenko now at Chelsea, Stam at Ajax, Podolski at Bayern Munich, Koller at Monaco, Cannavaro at Real Madrid and Vieri having moved to Sampdoria from Monaco.

The LMA Manager series has spent years perfecting a brilliantly intuitive and user-friendly interface, where every piece of information is no more than a couple of button-presses away. The Xbox 360 edition will see the game utilising all four shoulder-buttons featured on the console's pad to aid swifter movement between screens. The PC edition will further benefit from a bespoke mouse/keyboard interface, which combines icon-driven commands with collapsible folders.

On PC and Xbox 360, LMA's football world will expand to include teams from over 50 countries from all major continents, including even more teams from Europe, African, Asia, the Americas and Australia. As manager you will now be able to take your squad on a pre-season tour to all corners of the globe ? enabling your team of 'well-behaved' millionaires to let off fire extinguishers, party hard and generally misbehave in bars across New Zealand, Japan and Korea.

LMA Manager 2007 looks the business. With its stylish new design running throughout the intuitive interface, stats screens and 3D match sections, LMA Manager 2007's visuals take football management way beyond monitoring a spreadsheet to really deliver a graphically rich and immersive football management experience. You'll get an even better sense that there is a huge and authentic football world going on around as you run your chosen team.

With more data available than ever before, you want it delivered at speed. Less finger-drumming and tea-drinking as you wait for in-game 'days' to be processed. The Xbox 360 and PC versions see multi-threading implemented to keep the game moving at pace.

Presenting everything you need to know clearly alongside the most official football image content featured in a LMA game, on Xbox 360, the game's information sections will support HDTV and 720p and the whole game will run in glorious wide screen. The higher-resolution displays offered on PC have been optimised by the in-house LMA PC team and will see more information and detail available on a single screen; effectively 3 console-screens' worth of information will be visible.

Football One ? your window on the football world is clearer than ever. In the Xbox 360 and PC versions of the game you will be able to watch 3D highlights of not just your team's performance and, for the first time, see the best of every match played in your current division. On those special Cup days too you will be able to watch the key moments of all the big ties on that day ? your close rivals in the league, any potential Cup shocks and "big-team" clashes, whilst taking in the expert analysis from Gary Lineker, Alan Hansen and Barry Davies.

Know your history with more data from previous seasons played. On Xbox 360 and PC you can store reports of all past matches. No longer are player histories reset every season ? the histories will be maintained for the whole game. Additionally, with no limit on storage, you'll be able to file all the important documents received from your staff, such as scout reports, for future reference.

Can't hear you properly? "Get into them and muck them up!?" You'll know just what the crowd think of your management thanks to all new audio recordings taken live from real football matches. Recorded with multiple microphones around the stadiums, you'll hear the crowd asking your team to up their effort in the tackle in full digital surround sound on Xbox 360.

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