0 to Z of Playstation 1 Games - Alex Ferguson's Player Manager 2002

         

Alex Ferguson's Player Manager 2002 is a football management sim released on the Playstation 1, the game was developed by the late Anco Software and Published by Ubisoft, the game is also know as DSS Fussball Manager in Germany, with the game releasing first there on May the 14^th 2002 with a PAL release on the 17^th of May 2002, the game was also released on the Game Boy Advance and PC.

Using Sir Alex Ferguson’s  wealth of tactical knowledge of the beautiful game, this seasons release promised to be the ultimate in realism and in depth football management game, the game now features over 3500 players to shape your squad, a returning 3D match engine.

Gameplay footage has Portuguese commentary

The game also featured more added realism with agents and team training, the game features fully updated squads and kits for the 2001-2002 season as well as now featuring a tactics designer with the ability to issue individual player instructions.

Football management game no story or story mode present

Like the 2001 edition of the game critic review for this late and cross generation Playstation 1 game are impossible to find, so we head to GameFAQs for their user data, where the user rating is currently sitting at 2.21/5 with a total of 7 users rating the game.

The majority of the users that rated the game gave it a disappointing 2/5 with one user seeing fit to only give the game a dismal 0.5/5, a couple of users were more generous with their ratings with a 3.5/5 and a 3/5 awarded to the game but generally a pretty poor reception to the game.

Difficulty wise we had 6 users rate this category, with the majority of the users rating the game as tough, with just the one user rating the difficulty as just right, on to playtime with the game with only 5 users rating this, with 3 of the 5 spending around 8 hours with the game the remaining 2 users each spent 4 and 12 hours with the game, giving an average playtime of 8 hours.

This is the part of 0 to Z where is visit five online retailers and see what the availability of the title is, and what price you would be looking at if you wanted to pick this title up, the sites that I will be using for this are Amazon.com,  eStarland.com, retrogames.co.uk and Gamedude.com I know the last one is very location specific, but from a podcast I listen to I’ve heard they have a huge stock of older games, I will also be including Ebay.com as well

So lets get down to business with Gamedude, along with eStarland.com and Retrogames.co.uk don’t stock this title new or used, so we move on to Amazon.com who unsurprisingly don’t stock this European release, so we head to the co.uk version of the site where a small number of copies of the game are available, surprisingly the cheapest copy on sale at the time of writing this is a new copy.

This copy is priced at £4.99 with a £1.30 shipping fee, this comes to a total of £6.29, this converts to $8.11 in the US, in Euro zone countries you are looking at a cost of €6.87 while in Canada it will set you back 10.21 Canadian Dollars, please be aware this is a PAL only release.

Heading to Ebay.com the first copy that we see is a brand new factory sealed copy available for $15.70 considerably more expensive than Amazon even with the free shipping, a used complete copy of the game does come in slightly cheaper than that new copy on Amazon with a copy on sale for $6.42 again this copy comes with free shipping.

Written by

P J Gibbon