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At last, our first look at Football Manager 26's flashy new match engine is here, and it's a bit like classic FIFA


Two years after FM25's announce, we finally have a look at its replacement, in Football Manager 26.

Two years on from FM25's initial announce, we finally have our first proper look at actual gameplay from Football Manager 26, the game that supplanted it after FM25's troubled and ultimately cancelled development. That might sound like an insult, or back-handed compliment at best, but the differences in what these two types of game are doing under the hood are stark - and Football Manager has to run on significantly less powerful hardware at the same time. As for other changes, you can read much more in our massive Football Manager 25 and 26 interview with series boss and Sports Interactive studio head Miles Jacobson from just a few days ago, where he details the anatomy of an annualised game cancellation in full - from exactly what happened with FM25, to telling Sega about the need to pull the plug, and then what to expect from FM26 itself.

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