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Managerzone vs. Hattrick

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Broodrooster

Reserve Team
Managerzone and Hattrick are the two biggest online managergames in the world. Managerzone just went above 200,000. Hattrick has 170,000.

I am playing Managerzone for 10 months and Hattrick 21 months. Let's see wich one is better in the end.



Managerzone begun in 2001 and is available in 40 countries. They made quite some financial efforts. Real sponors, real names etc. etc. Hattrick seems a lot smaller when were talking about the commercial site of the game. Hattrick started in 1997 and had a lot of time to improve the game... It's available in 52 countries.


Paying for playing -

Both games are free and both have some extra's when you pay for the game:

Managerzone - When you pay for managerzone, you can play in cups and play against the top teams. You'll get MZ live and some extra's

Hattrick - The HT-Supporter function provides stats, press announcements, shirt designing, logo's and more.


Managerzone:

Graphics - 8
Gameplay - 6
Gamedepth - 7
Match Engine - 7,5
Community - 7
Addiction - 6

+ Real names, real sponsors..
+ Easy to learn, hard to master
- They really want to make to much money on their game
- No in game stats on 1 player


Hattrick :

Graphics - 6
Gameplay - 8
Gamedepth - 9
Match Engine - 6,5
Community - 9
Addiction - 8

+ National teams
+ Match ratings and reports
- Server speed is often slow (has improved lately)
- Paying to make a logo and shirts

Overall:

Managerzone is a great game and has lot's of potential. It's a pity that you have to pay for allmost everything you do. Even challenging big teams. But don't let that spoil you fun. I am still missing the match ratings. There is no way that I can see how well 1 player did in a particular game.

Hattrick has a great addiction level. The community seems to be a bit more alive. The game has more depth then MZ. For instance, nowadays the World Cup Under- 20 is being played (in Romania). The training system seems a bit better and the national cups are a real succes! Every game you play is free and paying supportes have 0% advantage wich is a good thing!


Conclusion:

Hattrick seems to overpower MZ. It's much more experienced so it has a huge advantage. MZ is still gaining on Hattrick but is has a long way to go.

And the winner is:::

HATTRICK!
 
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chris boston

Senior Squad
Re: Managerzone vs. Hattrick

"Hattrick - The HT-Supporter function provides stats, press announcements, shirt designing, logo's and more."

You have to pay just to change your kit... right...

"MZ: Match Engine - 7,5
HT: Match Engine - 6,5"

I don't agree with some of the others but this one was way out even though you went in MZ's favour. MZ has a real match simulator, the players actually play like real life. With Hattrick they just have a program that simulates a few moves and gets text commentary from it, there's no actual match being played like with MZ.

"Easy to learn, hard to master"

Wouldn't say that MZ is hard to master, they're about equal.

"They really want to make to much money on their game"

And Hattrick don't want to break even or make a profit either? They need to cover their expenses and pay wages for living costs etc. or there won't be a game...

"National teams"

Coming to MZ soon.

"Match ratings and reports"

There's been match reports in MZ since 2001...

I tried Hattrick but didn't really like it... just the player ratings for example, solid, passable, weak, etc... easier to compare in MZ with balls as you can quickly see rather than take a long look.

Do you have to pay to use the forums on Hattrick among some of the other extras? And there was something about the tactics I didn't like either, not as advanced as MZ and the same with training.

I prefer MZ as you can probably tell and if MZ started around the same time as Hattrick then I reckon MZ would be far enough ahead that we wouldn't have these comparisons. ;)
 
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Broodrooster

Reserve Team
Do you have to pay to use the forums on Hattrick among some of the other extras? And there was something about the tactics I didn't like either, not as advanced as MZ and the same with training.
Click to expand...

No all forums are free :) The tactics were introduced this season :hump:
 
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chris boston

Senior Squad
Oh right, well I couldn't find any forums, least not what I can remember. And for challenging top teams, that's optional, you can always challenge to a normal friendly for free, just like in Hattrick... although from what I remember, you could only have one friendly a week in Hattrick?
 
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Bluecoaster

Reserve Team
Hat-trick definatelly doesn't deserve graphics - 6...the graphics are too simple while in MZ you got even a MZ live which shows your own match...MZ is better by far. (What else did you expect of me to say while you're writing on MZ forums? :S)

Blue
 
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Ash

Senior Squad
I did try to get into Hattrick but I don't like the way training works, the way tactics work, the way player stats are viewed and the way the games actually play.

I haven't played it like I've played MZ but from what I have played on it for the addiction just wasn't there. I could easily go weeks and months without logging onto Hattrick (infact I did and got my team deleted :( ) whereas I've logged onto MZ almost everyday since I started playing it.

MZ wins hands down for me.
 
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Rami

Mullet Boy
when I played hat-trick, the stats weren't in balls (like mz) they were in words like "good" :kader:
 
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Essendon BFC

Senior Squad
I have played both games and I think that ManagerZone is better.

It looks better, Its better Graphics and has more features. Also you dont have to buy anything to get all the features of the game. Also the staff at MZ are far better then Hattrick.

I joined Hattrick and so did my brother(live in the same house use the same computer) and they kicked me off saying I had a double account.

MZ RULES!!
 
E

Essendon BFC

Senior Squad
Another thing about MZ thats better then Hattrick is that MZ doesn't even have a waiting list like Hattrick does and MZ has more members!
 
B

Broodrooster

Reserve Team
Next time i'll post this on a Hattrick forum :crazyboy:


I guess playing them both is the only correct answer to this :rockman: , but Hattrick is way better.

I don't see national teams, Under 20 teams, experience, national cup, leadership, youth squads, a complete staff, fanclubs, 100 stats, a forum for each league, nation etc, a world cup, 52 countries on managerzone... now do i?

I could make the list a bit bigger, but i won't =)
 
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