The presentation outlines clearly which positions and which roles your players are best suited to. In the past the presentation has been heavily burdened with a variety of screens to click between, though all the complexity and attention to detail is still included, the presentation in FM16 focusses much more on the main tactics screen and thus it flows a lot smoother. We were pleased at how effortless it was to click between strategy, individual roles, and set-pieces. The first thing we wanted to do was to set our tactics. All areas such as tactics, scouting, squad and training are easily accessed. Navigating the wealth of in-game features is fairly intuitive thanks to the side-bar interface, something we have become more comfortable with since its introduction in FM15. We felt obligated to play a possession-focused attacking 4-3-3 tactic throughout our game because that's what we chose at the beginning. While this solidifies the type of manager you want to be, it also detracts from experimenting. Preferred tactics and playing styles are also set from the offset. It doesn't make sense to assign these skills before they've been proven. If you scour the world looking for new talent, it makes sense to earn attribute points in judging player ability and potential. If you are a tactical mastermind who gets results based on how you arrange your stating line-up you should be rewarded with a high tactical knowledge rating. Something that does have an impact is the choice of preferences that directly influence coaching and tactical abilities. The models are bug-eyed and eerily non-human, you can modify height, weight, gender, skin colour, but as your appearance is only ever seen as a minuscule blocky figure patrolling the technical area on match days, it's a feature that has little importance even if we don't mind its inclusion. While there are virtues here - FM has always been as much about role playing as it is a management sim - its inclusion is utterly superfluous. Modifying the appearance of fictional managers is pretty amusing.
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