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Sports Interactive and SEGA Europe have today announced that Football Manager 2009 for PC and Mac has gone gold with the game to launch on November 14.
It’s also been announced that a playable demo is to be released on November 2, with two versions to be available for PC and Mac users – each will offer half a season of gameplay. The strawberry version of the demo will include player pictures and club badges, with quickstarts for the world’s biggest leagues. This version will also include all language translations for the game.
A vanilla version of the demo is English language only and features only the English and Scottish leagues, with no player photos or club badges in order to reduce to the size of the download. This demo will be available exclusively via the News of the World website.
Saved games from the demo will be compatible with the full release of the game.
The hardware requirements for the Football Manager 2009 demo and the full release:
PC
OS: Windows XP or Vista
Processor: XP: 1.4GHz or Faster / Vista: 2.0GHz or Faster
Supported Processors: Intel Pentium 4, Intel Core, AMD Athlon
Memory: XP: 512MB RAM / Vista: 1.0GB RAM
Hard Drive Space: 2GB
DVD-Drive: 4x Speed
Video Card: 128MB *Supported Chipsets (see below)
Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c compatible
Directx: Version 9.0c (included)
LAN: TCP/IP compliant
Input: Keyboard, Mouse
*Supported Chipsets – Nvidia FX 5900 Ultra or greater; ATI Radeon 9800 or greater; Intel 82915G/82910GL or greater.
Earlier cards may only display 2D Match Viewer Mode and are not supported. Laptop versions of these chipsets may work but are not supported.
MAC
Intel Processor, OS X 10.5.5, NVIDIA GeForce 7300 / ATI X1600 Radeon, 1GB System RAM
