Sega has announced that the latest installment of the Football Manager franchise will release on Nov. 2 worldwide for PC and Mac. The publisher is also offering players who pre-order the game a great incentive, as those player will get the chance to play the game before its official release, according to Miles Jacobson, director of Sports Interactive.
"I'm really excited to be able to announce that the release date for Football Manager 2013 on PC & Mac will be Friday November 2nd," Jacobson wrote on the game's official site. "We'll turn on the Steam servers to allow people to start playing the game."
The early access version of the game will be available for gamers who pre-order two weeks before the full game becomes available. The beta will remain playable until Nov. 5, or three days after the full release. All saved games and progress made during the pre-release period will be fully transferrable to the final release.
This offer is only available through participating retailers. The beta will include FM, classic mode & challenges, but will not include the network game.
Football Manager is a series of football/soccer management simulation games developed by Sports Interactive and published by Sega. The game will include new features including the addition of a director of football, being able to give certain roles to other staff members, taxes, a new way of making loan deals and the addition of Classic Mode where players could go through one season in eight hours without having to customize training or deal with team talk.
Football Manager 2013 will be available worldwide on PC and Mac on Nov. 2.