Football Manager 2022 Review: 8 Ups And 2 Downs

Downs...

2. No Fresh Lick Of Paint

Admittedly only a minor Down, Football Manager 2022 looks near-identical to its predecessor.

Of course, we FM players can very much be creatures of habit - and why change something just for the sake of change? - but on an initial load-up, you'd be totally forgiven for thinking that you'd accidentally booted up FM21.

The layout and skin of FM22 is familiar yet vanilla. Obviously you can move the various menu tabs around until your heart's content, yet this latest Football Manager release just feels like it missed the boat a little by not sprucing up its main interface - or at least giving players the option of an alternative, fresh layout.

There should be some slack afforded to Sports Interactive, mind, for the development of Football Manager 2022 was hindered by the global pandemic that's hit countless industries hard across the past 18 months or so. And while the main interface didn't get a face lift, more importantly, the ins and outs of FM's actual matches did - at least in an animation sense.