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Lead your football club through national championships and to international stardom. Take over an established men’s or women’s team of your choice as its manager or bring a small team into the big league.
WE ARE FOOTBALL is a sports, football (soccer) and time management game
developed by Winning Streak Games
and published by THQ Nordic.
Released on June 10th 2021 is available only on Windows
in 8 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Russian and Simplified Chinese.
It has received 1,424 reviews of which 1,103 were positive and 321 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.4 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 24.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 3.86€ on Instant Gaming.
The Steam community has classified WE ARE FOOTBALL into these genres:
System requirements
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS *: 64-bit Windows 7 / 8 / 10
- Processor: AMD / Intel processor running at 2.6 GHz or higher
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: AMD/NVIDIA dedicated graphics card, with at least 1GB of dedicated VRAM
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 2 GB available space
- Sound Card: Integrated or dedicated DirectX 9 compatible soundcard
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I have put a ton of hours into this game. It's not easy to deduce a lot of things and the help available is okay at times, but for others, non-existent. Like, you can build youth camps all over the world. Once I realized this, I started having tons of talented youth coming up my ranks. Is it documented anywhere? No. It would also help to have numerical scales for things such as morale, etc. Still, I must enjoy it if I'm still playing it.
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A very enjoyable game not to be compared to Football Manager. As a game in its own rights it is great, yes its rough around the edges for example the gimmicky things are not needed like sabotage of a match, building things like directors house in facilities and such these things are not needed and make the game almost childish. The game would really benefit from a 3d match engine although saying that the stadium view and facilities need a graphical overhaul, stadiums at the moment just look all out of perspective with the stands and corners all massively oversized but the roof not getting any bigger as the stand grows. this game has been made great with the edition of mods to update team names/badges and updated league positions. having randomly generated players hasn't bothered me in the slightest. i think if there are any newer versions in the pipeline then they should take influence from the FiFA Manager Games of years gone by namely the EA SPORTS FA Premier League Manager 2002 game which was by far the best in this game type. the range of building and stadium types you could build were fantastic and something i would like to see this game develop into. Tactically the game feels good and it feels like the decisions you make influence a game, team talks for me seem to a be pointless task tho. moving players freely around the pitch is great. overall i think they have made a great game that is FUN and not a second job like other manager type games, season can be quick but but also take time with all the facility/stadium/sponsors and such that needs attention. i hope this game keeps going with new releases and more improvements in the right direction going forward. i know i will purchase newer versions if they come along. (would like to see English Lower Leagues added as well :) )
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I really like this game. It has its issues - some bugs to be fixed and features that are missing - but I really enjoyed this direct competitor to Football Manager and found several aspects that I would love for Football Manager to take note of and possibly add their own twist to. This review is really more of a WAF vs. FM22, so I'll structure my biggest points as to which things I preferred from each game. Things I Feel WAF Does Better: - Negotiations in general are more fun and hands on. FM22 is certainly more granular when it comes to all the possible options for contracts and transfer offers, but at the cost of being a bit too opaque for all the but the most hardcore negotiators. Negotiations in WAF feel more like a minigame. - I really enjoy the passage of time in WAF, and how you need to balance your time and thus pick and choose which items you're going to address in a given week. - WAF gives you the ability to add and negotiate with sponsors directly, and I loved having direct control over this aspect. - I love having full control over both the training grounds and the stadium. In FM, your training area is a hidden number between 1 to 20 that controls how well your players train, but in WAF, you have all manner of buildings and fields with specific bonuses. Likewise, choosing when and how to expand your stadium is left up to you in WAF vs. oftentimes infuriating back and forth with your board in FM. - The UI itself feels much more accessible in WAF. While there are plenty of great skins in FM, all of them fail to achieve the kind of openness and intuitiveness that I found in WAF. Things I prefer in FM: - Attributes. For both staff and players, the single most important attribute in WAF is basically a "level" between 0 and 15 that is indicated by the number and color of stars. On the one hand, I love the simplicity and it does generate some excitement when a player or staff gains a star...but on the other, there is next to no indication of what staff/players are good at on any kind of granular level outside of a handful of skills they can unlock. - I feel much more connected to the games themselves on FM. WAF has the ability to see the stadium and plays during games, but I quickly turned it off once I realized it was just going to show me diagrams and not actual gameplay. - This is an area I hope will improve as more people play WAF, but while both games suffer from a lack of licensing, FM has a MUCH larger collection of add-ons to be able to mimic real-life teams, leagues, and tournaments. WAF has a great database editing tool that allows you to import custom databases, so I was able to play with real teams in roughly the correct league structure, but I still felt pretty disconnected calling the English leagues "1st Division", "2nd Division", and so on and without any of the correct cup titles. - Coaching licenses, work permits, cup registration restrictions, finance rules, and I'm sure plenty of others that I'm forgetting about. FM is ridiculously accurate when it comes to its depiction of the leagues, and everything I mentioned above is missing entirely from WAF. This makes WAF a bit easier to approach, but is still a net loss for those of us that appreciate really feeling like we're managing a real club. All in all, I really enjoyed my time with WAF, and would definitely recommend it to anyone who enjoys the genre, but after a week or two, I found myself back on FM22. I'm hopeful that this marks the beginning of a rivalry with both franchises pushing each other to be better. I definitely have room in my life for more than one football management sim.
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Most bugs have been fixed in the last 4 big updates. Patch 5 with a focus on the transfer market is coming soon. Game is a lot of fun. Note, this is NOT a Sega Football Manager "Clone". You act on a higher level in WaF. You are more in the shoes of the clubs manager, instead of the actual player managing trainer. WaF focuses on multi season development instead of micro management for each game,
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I’ve been playing football management games all the way back to the original Football Manager, through the Championship Manager era and right back to the current iteration of FM. Throughout this period I have fond memories of games such as Ultimate Soccer Manager, LMA Manager and FIFA Manager, and to me these were always good stable mates to the more tactical approach of the FM series. Recently, I’ve burnt out on the FM series, I’ve hardly played it this year to be honest so I was really excited that we may have an alternative, something a little more casual and less of a time sink. So far this This Is Football is nicely filling that gap for me, and I’m really pleased I took a chance on it. It’s a great change of pace and I think that as a first release of a new franchise the devs have done a good job. Basically, this game focuses more on the building of an entire club, through the building of club facilities, sponsorships, looking after the fans etc. rather than just heavy tactics. So I’ve seen multiple reviews berating parts of game, but in my opinion anyone expecting a new football management game to be ‘perfect’ on day one is not being sensible. There are so many moving parts and simulations that interact that I fully expected that to be the case. Even the current iteration of the FM franchise has to issue multiple balance patches every year. What I think we have here is a very solid foundation of a franchise that sits very nicely as an alternative to Football manger, and competition is important to drive both franchises forward. I truly believe that the devs can build on this create a really strong product. But the most important thing is I’m having fun with this game. I’ve had a terrible couple of weeks due to the loss of my mother, and this game has successfully provided moments of respite. I’m happy with my purchase and hope this review helps you decide if this game is for you. A few things for people to consider who may be thinking about a purchase: • The UI is confusing at first, but after spending some time with it I think I know where everything is. It certainly gives a fun throwback vibe to some of the other games I mention above. • I really love how you can literally just drag and drop players anywhere on the tactics pitch and enjoy the more simple way the player rating is shown. • The teams and players are not real, however it can very easily be patched with one download. Its very simple so it’s not really an issue. • The match engine is very different to FM, I suggest watching a YouTube video if that matters to you. I wasn’t sure about it at first, but it’s grown on me. The devs have said that they are looking to develop a fully 2D/3D engine. • Some of the German to English translations are a bit weird – it can make things a bit difficult to understand at first. • There are a few minor bugs, nothing major or game breaking that I’ve seen. I’ve had no crashes. The worst one is an issue with young players asking for way too much money when signing a contract.
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Developer
Winning Streak Games
Publisher
THQ Nordic
Release
10 Jun 2021
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