Pro Cycling Manager 2017 Reviews

OH BOY !! dont let the few positive reviews fool you!!! where to begin? i have been playing cycling manager ever since the first came out. every yeah a "new" game, but also EVERY year the same bugs/issues. the last few years, the bugs gets worse and more common. Not only theres ore bugs, but the AI (especially for sprinters) has gotten so much worse and stupid, that its almost no fun at all to play flat or classics races. the realisme has totally gone sour! It seems to me, they every year rush a "new" game out with few changes in features. The sponsor side is ok, BUT now i have played two carrer modes and after few years, suddenly frame/wheel etc sponsors either dont give you offers (even though you make all or almost all of your goals) and if they do its so small amounts that you can not keep the team running because your financial situation will bancrupt you! other ingame bugs, well just look at all others who have written about wich bugs they have and then you get a real view of this game. those who are positive, well either they are bias or they have just played a VERY limited time. another major flaw for instance - my last carrer game, after a few season i suddenly after having choosen my riders for vuelta, they suddenly arent in the vuelta.... laeving me with nothing AGAIN... i could play the game 3d, but no action as i suddenly had NO riders in the game.... Dont waste your money on CYANIDEs BUGGY S... game.... PRO cycling..... well there isnt much PRO about this game franchise, at least it hasnt been for years. Save your money unless if you can get it for less than 5 dollars. 2017 is the last Pro cycling manager game EVER for me.... I lost ALL trust in CYANIDE to make an a least decent game... bugs there will always be, but again EVERY year its so bad and many, its totally takes out the joy of the game. the game could have been the best sports manager game ever, but somehow it gets screwed up every year :-( DONT WASTE YOUR TIME AND HARD EARNED MONEY on this game

The Pro Cycling Manager series... I have played this game for over 3 years now and I think I know one or two things about this game. This game is perfect for the gamer who loves cycling and wants to relax and enjoy there freetime. "Why is Pro Cycling Manager 2017 better than the other one's?" This year they totally improved the game on aspects like: Graphics, Sound, Gameplay, AI, Management, Rider progress, Sponsors and a lot more cool features. If you would compare 2015 with 2016 you will see no difference, if you compare 2016 with 2017 you just can't deny 2017 is much better. "Rating per category" -- extreme bad, - bad, -+ ok, +- decend, + good, ++ perfect 1. Graphics + 2. AI Level + 3. Management -+ 4. Simulation + 5. Overall fun + 6. Community +- 7. Multiplayer -+ 8. Steam workshop ++ 9. Editor + 10. Mechanics +- 11. Realism -+ 12. Improvements over the last year + 13. Improvements over the last 3 years - I gave you my opinion and view about this game. Some of you will not agree with me some will. Overall it does not matter, why? Becuase it's you who likes a game or not. For me is the Pro Cycling series one of my favourite games I have ever played and I will defintly recommend it to you. I give this game an overall rate of: 7.5 So for all the people who are considering to buy this game I can only say one thing. If you love cycling and you are a management/stratagy gamer this is your game.

Bought from steam, installed on Windows 11 and loaded up. Loads up in a completely unreadable tiny window. Tried to do some stuff to get it work full screen but it won't. Very frustrating so got a refund.

What can i say apart from another overpriced buggy game which is a shame as it could of been so much better..i have put a few hours into the pro career mode which was enjoyable to start with training up ur rider for the first few seasons and getting good results bar the bugs where u crash and then cant move or get stuck between race cars and the verge..really. The really crap comentry i can put up with that but considering its a simulation you have very poor control over events ive been in races where ive tried dropping ppl on the last climb only to find riders who's stats are basic 60ish have kept up and then overtaken me my hills and mountain where 77/78 what did they have a RD condition of +20!!!!? it makes no sense at all. The other main gripe is the fact that you spend lots of time sorting ur season schedule and training to be at peak fitness for races and u get a totally random race day conition of minus 1-3 wtf...i have very rarely had a good RD condition the odd +2 so sort of makes the whole training a waste of time.As for getting into a breakaway forget it every time i try the pack runs me down yet they let everyone else who tries succeed most races im on max and still struggling to keep in the peleton absolutely stupid. There are many more stupid things about this game but i just cant be bothered to list them all, seems to be the way of Devs now release a game thats not really working as it should and then hit you with a hefty price tag for it probably cos they know we will still buy it...wake up and smell the coffee ppl they r taking us for a ride.

Game is fun for those new to this genre, which I am. Cons: Though I dislike npc seeming to become better and have more stamina than what their ratings say, Ive tried to lose against a lvl 70 in mountain terrain when I had 82 I attacked set a pace of 75 which is very high uphill especially for a lvl 70 but nevertheless he caught up and won by over 2 min.......Damm that EPO. Other things I dislike is the way the npc block the entire road meaning if you have to gather water it will take you 10-15 km to get to the front, othertimes on hills this means even though you got 100 skill point as a mountain climber you will get stuck behind those in the 20ies placement since its in these whereabouts they use the entire road meaning they block you, and drag you down . Dumb and DUmb Ai where the Fairplay at which every cyclers is know for having they almost never take up all road there will almost alway be space for the fast people to get forward, due to the respect they have for one another. Graphics trucks in the middle of road, people in the middle of road, car is in the way, MC are in the way, spectaters halfed due to clipping through ground level. (default setting) Mouse curser will not work or work correct when upscaling, using 1600x900 full screen (there is a fix for this which I found out by playing with the options.ini file) Game doesnt use all cores, laggy, got problems with schedule yea game has way too many bugs. Im on the Fence of whether I should recommend this game, though it is very fun to play, and I hope they will fix all those nasty bugs, cus there are way too many of em. As game is now its a 51% for and 49% against meaning you could wait for a spell or 2, untill they have fixed all them bugs. Or you could live with the bugs for now knowing they will fix the bugs, if you cant live with a very buggy game then wait. If you can then this is recommended

Only Cyanide has the special power to make a game better and worse at the same time. For each improvement they make, they add a horrible element. Meanwhile, the same bugs since 2011 are still in this game. Why don't you skip a year and come to us with a finished game instead of a cashcow. Newest annoyances; blocking! You can't send a rider in the breakaway because it takes 35km to get to the front of the bunch (i counted). Can't make it to front on a mountain as well. Training system; it takes you 5 hours to set up your team at the start of the season. So you can't ask for a refund, I guess. Instead of 1 menu for training, you have to cycle through 4 or 5 screens per rider to set up the training programme in the most detailed way. Last year's system was fine, stop adding crap. EPO; the whole peloton is on EPO. It's not uncommon to finish an uphill stage with 30 riders, all sprinting

Well, too much things go wrong. I've now spent enough hours on it to say with confidence: it's not my fault... Not working well: - "press the space bar to stop simulation". 7 days later, it finally stops. By now, contract offers are gone. - Be a pro: DO NOT BE A SPRINTER. It will make you go mad. The worst breakaways (5 guys wit 64 Ryding and no stamina on a flat stage of 160k) are impossible to catch with my entire team (Ryders of 65-74-) going after them. Meanwhile, other teams with better sprinters than me don't even seem interested in catching the breakaway. So the breakaway that got 4 mins max is not caught. If however, on occasion you do succeed to catch the breakaway, and get a good train on the road, in 1 out of 3 times, the leadoutguy just doesn't even begin his sprint when pressing "S". Het just let's go mid screen and you lose 20 positions straight away. In other times when it does work, your sprinter of 75 in the shape of his life gets beaten by a nitwit with 68 sprinting, when you let him explode at the 1k mark.. it's rediculous! - Guys like Peter Sagan just keep following climbers with 83 climbing on a 10k climb of 8%. Impossible to win mid mountain stages with a climber. - I only win climb stages with the best climber in freakish climb stages (with over 50k of climbing to do) by doing the final climb on my own pace, not following any attack, and in the end catching up with the nutty attackers being dead 3k's before the finish. - Ever done a breakway in a mountain stage? Every single one of the guys in the breakaway thinks he can win the polkadot jersey, and attacks on every single climb to get the points. So or you do the same and destroy your riders yellow bar, or you don't and you're left chasing the breakaway until the next climb, where they attack once again. - I could go on and on, but it never stops. Overall, there's too many things wrong with this game when it could be that much more fun. It gets frustrating. That can never be the intent of a game so I'm done. Edit: most errors occur in the Pro Cyclist mode. Career mode is playable, however sometimes the lead out guy doesn't want to start his sprint still happens.

Never bought a game so full of bugs. There are so manny mistakes in the interface, it's unbelievable. It's fun when it works but so frustrating. Went in to the second year of my carreer and all of a sudden my rider has stopt resting, I tried cancelling all the races, they never show up on my schedule so i actually cancelled them. But even still my rider competes in the races. Right now my rider is at 117% unrested and it goes up even when I cancell all training and races. Shit game, i would be ashamed to put something so full of bugs on the market!

Okay i love this game but: The developers actually made the game worse! Pretending they made any significant changes to the 2016 or 2015 edition the game isnt looking good so far. Same voice for comentators for a few years now (annoying!) worse controls and menues. no improvements at all. Scouting still sucks, contract renewals, financial management. So easy to imrove this game. Do not recommend if you have the 2016 or 15 edition

Ive really, really tried to love this game...but it continues to throw sh@t back in my face! Ive continued on and on, and been left frustrated, and totally bamboozled with the lack of strategy and the seemingly non-existence of a simulation game. I often feel im not racing other racers, im just racing against the game itself. I havent played MP yet, so that may work well. BUGS GALORE here: Dont believe me? Look at all the stickys on the first discussion page lol. Ive raced multiple races, multiple times in one season...? Imagine playing football manager, and after a game is finished, you play the same game a few weeks later...weird. At the end of the season, ive had to race another 9 times, even though there is none in my schedule. Yup...screwed me right over for my training! Ive had races where the riders go through fields, like with 10ft high grass, so you cannot even see their heads lol. Ive had them drive through houses, walls, trees etc. Ive had races where ive literally lost all control over my rider, and am left at the mercy of where the game thinks i should finish. There's loads more... Now what i will say is, if/when they eventually get it all fixed up, and balanced out..so the game doesnt differentiate player from AI, then there will be cracking games here. As it is, its an early access game for me. £30 quid..no way save your money. When its fixed then sure, there's loads of fun to be had here. I was kinda semi-addicted to this, mainly because, on the outside, it seemed to be a complex game. Underneath it feels all to shallow. I'll be continuing to play, and be pulling my hair out with this (since i payed £30 for it), and my review will surely change..when its fixed.