Rugby League Team Manager 2018

Nice little improvement on the previous title. Particularly fond of the new 3D in-game engine, looks a lot crisper. With a new season update soon that I'm eagerly anticipating you can't argue with what you get for your money. If you like Rugby League and you like tactical managerial games then what's not to love? :)

When I first started this game it was tricky fiddling around but overall it's a good game a must have for NRL fans and thank you for making this game :)

I'm going to be honest. This game is TERRIBLE. People on here writing reviews saying it's a small developer and to give it a chance, I understand but honestly this game is not what I expected at all. I knew the UI was going to be hard to work with and poorly designed due to other reviews but once you actually start playing - WOW is it bad. So clunky and slow it takes an eternity to switch between interfaces. That's just the UI! The management is so far from enjoyable it's in a weird middle ground where it isn't simple and it isn't complex. It's complex enough to be annoying but simple enough to take the fun out of it. Signing players is such a massive F-around you can't just click on a team and click through there roster or even look in competition results and sign a junior league's top try scorer, you have to first scout the player using a scout from your staff which requires you clicking through several screens on the UI that's straight out of the 90s. Besides that, the training and financial side of things are super hard to understand and the game manual covers virtually nothing, you're left to translate the hyrogliphs that are the Ui's buttons and work out what exactly it is you're doing since the manual covers nothing outside of the very basics. As far as the game running that's the worst part yet, in this management sim game you cannot leave the window/program so while it's simulating hundreds of other teams doing there weekly training/transfers - you literally cannot click out to check emails, browse the web or even change a background song or else the simulation stops until you click back onto the program. The simulation btw takes FOREVER and every 2 weeks you need to completely change or at least re-confirm your teams training schedule so don't expect to fast forward further then a fortnight. Overall, there's plenty more I could write about what I didn't enjoy about this game but I'm just gonna leave it in saying i've never had buyers remorse worse then this and I can't reccomnd anyone reading this too avoid this game enough it isn't fun, it isn't a quick and easy game, it isn't complex and challenging. I'm literally going to have nightmares about the UI.

---{Graphics}--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☑ Ok ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ Paint.exe is an upgrade ---{Gameplay}--- ☑ Reason to live ☐ Good ☐ It‘s just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Starring at walls is better ☐ Driving nails through your genitals is an upgrade ---{Audio}--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☑ Bad ☐ Why is there blood in my earphones? ---{Audience}--- ☐ Kids ☐ Teens ☐ Adults ☑ Human ---{PC Requirements}--- ☑ Potato ☐ Word processor ☐ Average rig ☐ Gaming rig ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{Difficulity}--- ☐ Press 'F' to win ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Difficult ☑ Significant brain usage ☐ Dark Souls ---{Grind}--- ☐ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if you care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ A whole lotta grind ☐ Call it a Makita because she's a grinder ☑ Management game so you know what you're in for ---{Story}--- ☑ Story? ☐ Text or Audio floating around ☐ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It‘ll replace your life ---{Game Time}--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☐ Average ☐ Long ☑ To infinity and beyond ---{Price}--- ☐ It’s free! ☐ Worth the price ☑ Wait for discounts ☐ If you have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{Bugs}--- ☐ Never heard of ☑ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ----------

I am giving this game a 5.5 out of 10, it is a pass mark. The upside it is heading in the right direction compared to the previous years installment which was just a heap of @#$%. The devs have put a little more work into this years product, there are still really basic things that I cant belive got through like the lower grade competitions arent named correctly, it must be a pommie SL things. The pages are still a bit clunky and noisy, not set out nicely at all. Hard to navigate around and so much eye clutter makes it worse. Gameplay is a bit average also, trying to work the ball out from near the try line, gain 10 meters after 5 tackles and kick on the 20 meter line often. Line breaks are a rarity too. The pommie thing #2 - how do they get such high ratings compared with NRL players??? Hardly any of them are up to week in week out NRL standard, how many would press to get in a State Of Origin series? Sweet FA. Sam Tomkins played in the NRL, he was an average player at best but again high ratings. Hoping the devs can go check out the FM series and tidy up this game. Also, why are the teams home grounds capacities / names etc incorrect? Its very basic stuff guys n girls. Get people to research it for you if you havent got time, hell I will do for you if you want. NRL has lower grades, get the correct names for those comps and inlude it in the next edition. If you need ppl downunder to research NRL stuff and send you the correct info let me know, I am happy to assist. It is still an arcade game, its not a management sim as such, but its on the improve.

advance button just dosent work...