[{"TitleName":"Soccer Director","Publisher":"GTI Software","Author":"Stephen Bye","YearOfRelease":"1990","ZxDbId":"0004614","Reviews":[{"Issue":{"Name":"Sinclair User Issue 102, Aug 1990","Price":"£1.85","ReleaseDate":"1990-07-18","Editor":"Jim Douglas","TotalPages":84,"HasCoverTape":false,"FlannelPanel":"PRIME PERPS\r\n\r\nEditor: Jim Douglas\r\nDeputy Editor: Garth Sumpter\r\nDesigner: Osmond Browne\r\nAdvertisement Manager: James Owens\r\nSales Executive: Alan Dykes\r\nAd Production: Emma Ward\r\nMarketing Manager: Dean Barrett\r\nMarketing Executive: Sarah Ewing\r\nPublisher: Graham Taylor\r\nManaging Director: Terry Pratt\r\nContributors: Chris Jenkins, John Cook, Steve Harmon, Pete Gerrard and last but BY NO MEANS least, Gary Redrup. Nice jeans, Gaz!\r\n\r\n©1990 EMAP Images, [redacted]\r\n\r\nTypesetting by J'n'G Type\r\nColour work by Pro Print.\r\nPrinted by Kingfisher Web Ltd, Peterborough.\r\nDistributed by BBC Frontline."},"MainText":"Label: GTi\r\nPrice: £2.99\r\nReviewer: Gary Redrup\r\n\r\n\"Football, it's a funny old game\" (copyright Jimmy Greaves) and the job of the director is probably the funniest. Calling share holders meetings, buying and selling the odd share and smoking large cigars. Well low and behold GTI Software have released a game all about the job of a director (but without the cigars).\r\n\r\nThe aim of the game is to own shares in all the major clubs in the first division and to own more than half the shares in at least one club.\r\n\r\nThe game is menu driven. The main options are:\r\n\r\n1. Play season - allows you to see the score week by week of all the first division clubs.\r\n\r\n2. Buy/sell shares - this lets you see the price of each share for each club and purchase some; \"twenty of your finest chelsea's please.\"\r\n\r\n3. View charts - And at number ten it's Bros, no not that chart, but a chart of each team's skill, fitness and morale.\r\n\r\n4. Call share meeting - allows you to try and make some changes to a team which you own shares in like sack manager or wages rise but lose the vote and club morale will be hit.\r\n\r\n5. Make share offer - only when possible are you able to buy a complete team.\r\n\r\nUnfortunately you have no control over the picking the team. Room for improvements here, along with a better scores table.\r\n\r\nAlso you can do a Lou Macari and bet on what team you think will win the cup, the league or get relegated. Naughty eh?\r\n\r\nThe graphics are very basic with quite limited colour but the game doesn't suffer too much because of this. Football Director offers quite a challenge, so it will keep puzzlers and strategy fans in front of their Speccys for a few months at least.\r\n\r\nBut the game really won't do a lot for football fans. You might as well be trading shares in British Gas. So if being a rich fat director appeals, but this great financial market game but don't expect much football to be involved in it.","ReviewerComments":[],"OverallSummary":"Sound strategy elements. Maybe too removed from the Game itself.","Page":"73","Denied":false,"Award":"Not Awarded","Reviewers":[{"Name":"Gary Redrup","Score":"75","ScoreSuffix":"%"}],"ScreenshotText":[],"BlurbText":[],"TranscriptBy":"Chris Bourne","ReviewScores":[{"Header":"Graphics","Score":"59%","Text":""},{"Header":"Sound","Score":"39%","Text":""},{"Header":"Playability","Score":"70%","Text":""},{"Header":"Lastability","Score":"78%","Text":""},{"Header":"Overall","Score":"75%","Text":""}],"CompilationReviewScores":[]}]}]