After several earthquake level personnel changes in a few months, KONAMI announced the decision to officially transform to a mobile platform earlier this year. After a while, we soon saw the launch of the new mobile game "Live Football Club Manager". This is a football manager game based on "Live Football". It has more than 5000 authorized players and is built by a host level game engine.
The most significant difference between football manager games and traditional football games lies in the way in which the game is played. In this work, the player does not need to control the players to play, but needs to be the team manager and coach, watch the players' performance from the perspective of God, and conduct overall control at an appropriate time, such as changing the team members, controlling the game rhythm, changing the attack style and adjusting tactics. The game adopts the league competition system, and players can improve the team group and conduct more intense confrontation every time they finish a good season.
The game provides players with 3D and 2D viewing modes. The former is more suitable for watching the game, while the latter is conducive to controlling the overall situation. Although players can easily adjust the team under both visual effects, players can more intuitively understand the player's movement, physical strength and status and other information under 2D visual effects.
According to the level of numerical ability, players in the game can be divided into seven different levels, from one star to seven stars. The representative players include six star Mata, six star Casillas, seven star Ronaldo and seven star Ibrahimovic. The overall quality of the team to a large extent determines the success of the game. Because players cannot directly intervene in the game manually, numerical advantages are particularly important in this work. As one of the few payment points in this work, the player draw shows the developer's ambition. For the five consecutive draws that are slightly expensive, there are only five players as the minimum, and six and seven stars are hard to find.
Through continuous competition, players can accumulate a large number of training points and various props, among which training points are used for special training of players, such as weight training, sprint training, defensive operations, etc. There are three types of props in the game, namely, physical strength recovery supplies, enthusiasm recovery supplies, and medicine boxes, which are used to recover physical strength, enthusiasm recovery, and treatment of injuries and diseases. This is one of the most frequently used elements in the game, and players need to pay attention to daily accumulation and reasonable distribution.
In addition to the most basic league and cup competitions, the game also prepares a limited time "World Tour" tour for players. In this mode, players will directly compete with players from all over the world, and win ranking points from the other side to improve their own level. The "World Tour" has four levels: bronze, silver, gold and platinum. Players can get corresponding scout coupons for each level upgrade. At the end of the tour, the game will also give rewards according to the final ranking of players, and TOP 100 players can get a very precious ticket of 7 planets.
The construction of the home city has a great impact on the overall growth of the team. Its internal construction facilities include scouting agencies, offices, stadiums, entertainment facilities and youth training camps, which respectively affect the price of listed players, sponsorship costs, number of fans, speed of props production and quality of youth team players. For players, the importance of home city construction is no less than the management of the team itself, which also requires a lot of time and money.
Apart from the slightly expensive players' card draw, the Live Club Manager shows KONAMI's deep game strength in many other negative aspects, although it does not have a deep accumulation in mobile platforms. With excellent game pictures, detailed player data, rich strategies and tactics, and diversified team development, Live Club Manager has been recognized by a considerable number of players. Of course, the relatively poor network stability has also been complained about by many players.
Konami President Hideki Okawa once said: "Although the host game market will not be abandoned at present, the mobile platform will be the ultimate game platform. Konami is constantly exploring how to expand all series to mobile platforms." We have reason to believe that the derivative works of "Live Football" series such as "Live Club Manager" and "PES European Championship Fingertip Free Kick" are just the first step of KONAMI's overall transformation to mobile games. Perhaps in the near future, we will be able to experience more masterpieces on mobile phones, such as Metal Equipment and Silent Hill, which were once only available on the host platform.
