When faced with an evenly matched opponent, the difference between winning and losing can come down to the individual instructions you've given a single player. While more difficult than ever, success is still there for the determined. In short: if you don't know how to make the best use of the talent at your disposal, you can bet the opposition will know best how to exploit them. Not only do you need to be ready to adapt over the course of 90 minutes, but you need to understand the abilities of your players in more detail than ever in order to make those adaptations in a way they can execute and understand. Handling players in the wrong way can have an enormous effect on their morale. Your opposite number is now much more likely to make tactical changes (both subtle and major) as the game plays out, meaning the intricate 3-5-2 formation that worked so brilliantly in the first half could suddenly find itself ineffective. That need to focus more closely than ever on the actions of your rival managers is most obviously felt on match day. FM14 makes that kind of passive play impossible by forcing you to constantly adapt and stay attuned to the actions of the opposition. With minor interaction along the way, you could finish a season top of the league playing in this way. In previous years it was possible (with the best teams, at least) to make a few signings, define your tactics, and fly through a season at a rate of eight to 10 games per hour. Getting the tactics right, even against weaker opposition, is vital. Not only do many of the new additions and alterations make for the most absorbing (and time-consuming) entry in the franchise's history, but they also make it the most challenging. Classic mode has seen a variety of upgrades, but the fully featured side of the game is where the real changes have taken place.
This season, however, things are different. While a number of worthwhile improvements were made to last year's more exhaustive traditional game, it was clear that Classic mode was the priority.
With the addition of Classic mode, developer Sports Interactive committed itself to providing a streamlined version of the game in the hope of attracting players not exclusively consisting of sport nerds and statisticians. Football Manager 2013 represented somewhat of an overhaul in focus for the long-running series.
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