$9.99Pro Cycling Manager 2017 Run the team, win the season
Take charge of a pro cycling squad and steer every race decision across a full calendar of tours and one-day classics.
Is Pro Cycling Manager 2017 worth it?
Pro Cycling Manager 2017 is worth it if…
- you follow road cycling and want to manage the teams and races you watch on TV
- you like planning a whole season of goals, contracts and signings before the racing starts
- you enjoy calling tactics stage by stage and living with the result
- you want to race against other managers online, with clans and leagues of up to 16 players
- you would rather build a rider's career from the saddle in Pro Cyclist mode
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The season is yours to run
You take charge of a pro team and its whole calendar: more than 200 races and 500+ stages across the world, including the Tour de France and La Vuelta. Before a wheel turns, you decide who rides. Scout young talent, negotiate contracts, hire staff and keep sponsors happy, all of which judge you by results. Set season goals for your leaders and hand out domestiques to support them; a rider whose goal clashes with a teammate's will like it less. The new schedule system pushes you to commit to clear targets through spring, summer and autumn, so a season becomes a plan you defend, not a list of dates.
Calling the race from the wheel of the car
Every stage counts, and during the race the decisions are all yours. Order a train formation at any moment to shelter your leader and set up the finish, or send a rider to chase down a breakaway eating into your lead. Manage pace, stamina and race rhythm as the kilometres tick by, then commit to the climb or wait. It is the kind of thing that gets tense in the last ten kilometres: one wrong call and your sprinter arrives boxed in, one right one and the win is yours. The AI teams have their own plans, so no two stages play out the same way.
A budget that answers to results
For anyone who likes running an operation rather than just playing it, this is the pull: a team is a business where the product is race wins. Sponsors set objectives and judge your season by them, contracts need negotiating, and every rider you sign is money spent against a result you promised. Balance the roster between stars who must deliver and young riders who might, then watch your calls play out over 500 stages. It is management in the strict sense: profit here is measured in podiums, and the people paying the bills are keeping score.
