One of the key features of Anstoss 3 was the ability to actually play the games after Anstoss Action was released. The game had positive reception, and a year later Total Club Manager 2003 was released, with Bobby Robson on the cover (for the second time, after FIFA Soccer Manager). It resembled Anstoss 3, although on a more serious note (in Anstoss, players could be abducted by aliens, train in Area 51 or use performance-enhancing drugs) and fewer financial options (managers developed by German teams often include deep financial options, such as stock and real estate markets).
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However, by 2001, several employees of German software house Ascaron, who developed the highly popular Anstoss series in the past moved to EA, and the first game, Fussball Manager 2002, was released in Germany only, as a test for a potential series. It was announced FIFA Manager's last installment was FIFA Manager 14 and that there would be no further editions to the game.īefore FIFAM and TCM, EA Sports released FIFA Soccer Manager (1997) and The FA Premier League Football Manager 99, 2000, 20, but while the first managed to attract some attention, the latter were released when the managing games market for non- Championship Manager titles was close to non-existent, and after two unsuccessful titles, it was dropped. The game was called Total Club Manager (short: TCM) until the name changed to FIFA Manager with the FIFAM 06. The games were developed by the German studio Bright Future GmbH and EA Sports.
FIFA Manager (short: FIFAM) was an association football series of sport management games published by Electronic Arts.