Detailed but underwhelming soccer manager
The game feels as if someone went on to create a football manager simulation, thinking that the external details and the entire list of options will make the player oblivious to the fact that it is the player interactions and their impact on the game that keep them engaged. At the surface level you have all the amenities of soccer management simulation presented to you, and rather very well, with cool backgrounds and with rather nice undertones. However, try as you might, you are not going to get that feeling that your options in the game make any long term difference. It is as if the game is managed by a single digit parameter, and that with all the tools at your disposal, the only difference is that parameter being higher or lower than the computer AI's one. It thus makes little difference what decision you make, because something that you thought would have a positive repercussion, will turn out to have the exactly opposite one. So, in the end Bundesliga Manager Hattrick is a wasted opportunity, because it's infrastructure of options, very well wrapped and very nice graphically could have been used on another, more serious game, one that would actually make you play it
