Footy News: FM 2007 Demo, CM 2007 Demo, PES 6 This Month

Football fans, and those who fancy management games in particular, have been pretty spoiled these last few days, with the release of some demo versions for both Football Manager 2007 and Championship Manager 2007. Not to mention that Codemasters have already launched their LMA Manager 2007 in September, so this is turning out to be another plentiful year for the genre. Not that anyone had any doubts about it.

The first ones to kick off a demo last weekend were Sports Interactive and SEGA. And it seems they're making it a habit to send out two distinct versions of their FM demos: a "Vanilla" flavour, with just the bare minimum needed to play it, and a more copious "Strawberry" flavour (mmm Ichigo), assorted with all relevant kits, player photos and graphics. It's this last one (260 MB) that we've also put up for download locally. You can grab the Football Manager 2007 "Strawberry" demo from here, but there are also mirrors for the other PC / Mac versions on SI Games' website. Expect the final PC version on October 20, and on the Xbox 360 in December.

Next came Beautiful Game Studios and Eidos, with their Championship Manager 2007 demo (127 MB). This one is playable for six months with the English, French and Italian leagues, and it's supposed to be fully save game compatible with the full version of CM2007 - which will be released in the UK on October 13.

And speaking of releases, another football game is lined up for retail this month. Konami's Pro Evolution Soccer 6 is expected to hit store shelves starting October 27 on the PC, PS2 and Xbox 360, with the PSP and DS versions to follow soon after.

P.S. In other footy news, you can now check out the FIFA 07 review we published today.

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