For a start, the look and feel is completely different, with a modern touch interface sporting big, bold iPhone-friendly buttons, and an intuitive drag-and-drop system that makes tactical changes and transfer hunting a cinch.

Compared to the PC version it is nigh-on impossible to look at a player and decide that they'll be good. After ten, 12 years of dabbling with Sports Interactive's various releases, we know this; we know responsible playing is the answer, so we only get to dip in and out these days. Check out our full review closer to the game's April 13 release date to find out whether our last line of FM defence will finally be breached. It's the first time we've made a handheld game, [but] we're using every single byte of memory to get the AI spot on.But anyway, enough hideous visions, let us tell you what else we found out about "the ultimate handheld game and various other cheesy expressions" during our latest visit to SI HQ.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.A small reduction in the number of stats, the removal of superfluous graphics like club badges, and the super-sharp quality of the widescreen PSP display makes it possible to still cram in tons of detailed information with very little in the way of compromise.

net is owned by Gamer Network Limited, a ReedPop company and subsidiary of Reed Exhibitions Limited.The newly-issued iOS version, meanwhile - a universal app for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch - is a different beast altogether. If you enjoy this free ROM on Emulator Games then you will also like similar titles NCAA Football 10 and Football Manager Handheld 2013. Just don't let your joy about the new streamlined match preparation and in depth contract negotiation system creep into your pillow talk, for God's sake. Plenty of FM-era features make it into the mix, though, with full media involvement, including transfer rumours, accurate player histories, five speed-settings during matches, full tactical control, agent approaches and player unrest, injury diagnosis and feedback, staff feedback, data accurate to the January transfer window (barring loans, we're told) not to mention the same excellent transfer/contract negotiation system that we're all used to. But unless you're lucky enough to have one of those ultra portable, extra-expensive laptops, the chances are that on-the-move play is pretty impractical for all but the most devoted FM-phile.