Pro Cycling Manager 2015

The races are complete sausage fests; I can almost smell the wieners 🤢

Not the best game in the series, and outdated by now. tho fixable with database mods'

10/10 for me having done several 0 to hero campaigns over the years!

I got this in a bundle, and would not have gotten it if it did not get slapped in. Because as a general rule, anything with a year in it, expires fast and not worth it unless you keep up with the Joneses. Applies to all sports games.

Don't buy this! It requires you to authenticate the game, before play. It won't work because the server specifically for this game and the 2014 version, is not working.
The developers know this, I've communicated with them about this. They even admitted it. But they do nothing to solve it. In other words, they are knowingly selling a broken game. What's it called?
I think that's fraud, isn't it!

Do nothing other than flag this game so that Steam will finally sit up and do something about it. The developers only want your money! It seems.

Under no circumstances, buy this game. It simply doesn't work, because the key authentication servers, the game attempts to communicate with on startup, no-longer exist. What's more if you don't attempt to install it, to find that out, quickly enough, Steam will refuse to refund you. Shoddy behaviour all round. I've have received a response back from the developer since writing this, saying the wrong version is on steam, and they will fix it as soon as possible. We'll see

When setting up your profile you have to manually enter your CD Key in the Player Key slot, then check the Default Profile box and it should save your key properly.

Multiplayer's dead, but the game is 7 years old.

You too can learn how to be a road-hogging a**hole cyclist!

2/10

One of the Better seasons of the game, Contador in his prime Froome just arriving plus the game has many features which will be taken out in future games, Stagiares, dev team contracts and other such things

Oh yeah the game will crash a decent amount

I can't recommend this game to anyone but hardcore enthusiasts.It's basically a linear numbers game that will bore the hell out of you if you're not into cycling.
Game play in Pro Cyclist Mode looks like this: Your rider has 75 Hills but can't drop one with 50. The same rider will destroy you in the flats. Or you will get boxed in. Or the pelotons refuses to chase in a one-day race. Or your team won't work for you.
If you control a team and can actually keep track of everything happening, you will be able to pull some amazing wins.

However, this game is overall pretty slow and unbalanced Nairo Quintana won the overall classification along the points AND mountains jersey at the same time. The best sprinter in 2017? Rin Zebal.

-You ride a Bike
-You compete in a small event
-You Win and get excited
-You goto a medium event
-You get into a break away
-You're about to win
-You get passed by everyone and get 20th
-You compete in a big event
-You get destroyed
-You rage quit
-You load up the game and repeat

Good Game if you're into cycling


Note:
-Game can be very buggy and crashes a lot
-It is difficult starting and figuring out the controls.
-Making your own cyclist is a blast and cool feature.
-No one can beat Chris "Vroome"

2007, 2009 and 2015 are the three best PCMs. I recommend PCM 2015 especially to players who want to start cycling management.

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Buying PCM every year is stupid, databases are not real on the base game and real database are proposed on PCMDaily sometimes on three consecutive seasons. Gameplay changes are almost non-existent from one season to the next. I'd advise you to buy a PCM every three years if you become a fan, or even if you already are.

STOP ALL THE PRO CYCLING MANAGER HATE

For a lot of people this game looks like a total waste of time, but that are mostly people who don't know ANYTHING about cycling. If you are a cycling fan, yes this game will fill up your hopes, if you take the time to properly learn it.
That's the main reason why i love this game. It has such a big learning curve, and if you take the time to properly try out strategies, and don't just full out attack at the beginning of the stage, the game is really fun.

BUT you will go crazy after some time because of bs happening all over the place :D

Even though this game crashes a bit, it is still fun to play. The pro cyclist mode is fun, it is actually my favorite mode, but not totally complete because even if you are the team leader, you cannot tell your teamates to get bottles, relay at the front, protect you, or not relay at the front if you are tired (which they sometimes do). The AI in this mode sometimes does not understand that you may be going onto a climb, which makes it easier to bring back a breakaway group. For some, the mode looks bad as you "cannot" control your rider as you can only tell him to pace and other actions and move from side to side with the number pad. The normal manager mode is fun but if you are only looking at that mode, the only difference between pcm15 and the older games in the series is the ratings, age, and teams of the riders which you can chage with downloading databases off sites like pcm.daily. The track mode is unchanged and is fun to play if you have nothing to do. The one-off race is like last year and is basically unchanged. The game is very fun, but if you do not understand cycling, then the game will feel very strange and awkward.
7.5/10

A MUST buy if you are a fan of Cycling in any way. Great graphics in-game, the AI is pretty skilled and the tactics just like the real life. If you are not familiar with Cycling, you SHOULDN'T buy the game, because it could be pretty boring.

This game would be great if the developers were concerned at all about what people that paid $40 for. The idea and concept of the game is fantastic. The fact that the AI riders seem to react differently to my rider then the other 199 AI riders is flat ridiculous. Im not the top ranked rider so why can any other rider decide to breakaway but if I do or follow a breakaway the pack is right on my heels? How are riders able to maintain when they are completely out of both bars of energy? If that happens to me my rider drops back like hes sitting still. When is pro cyclist mode I can see my teammates killing themselves to keep up yet still maintain and recover as fast as I do when I keep my bars almost full. Then lets get to the crazy numberous amount of bugs that no one seems to be working on or care about as they are posted and made awhere of. Im into season 4 of pro cyclist and now all the sudden my mouse pointer freezes on the screen and you have to move your mouse around guessing where it is till you get lucky enough to scroll over something with it and the icon changes colors a tad. Yes the game is playable like this but I refuse to waste my time trying to figure out where my mouse is. Ive had the game over a month with alot of crashes and a pop up that asks me to send my data to help the developers work on a fix. I cant find anywhere that someone from the game has responded or gave info on any fixes for the future. I dont really write reviews but I feel like this time I didnt get even half my moneys worth when I cant continue to play the game and dont know if I ever will be able to.

Terrible game. The majority of the race maps have not been updated from the previous edition and are based on 2013 routes. The interface has taken a huge backwards step and the rider fitness screen is now completley unreadable. Also the lack of Continental teams makes many 2.1 races pointless with sometimes only around 70-80 riders taking part (e.g. there are 6 UK Continental teams but once again only 2 make this game.) Considering that in the 2014 edition it only takes around 1 hour to fully set up a new team on the editor the lack of effort that has gone into the details of this game is insulting.

I would advise you buy the 2014 edition instead as it will be cheaper, the maps are basically the same and the interface is far better.

Not worth until they update so it dosen't crash that every Race. If your consider buying this then I would really listen to the commentary's cause the game is one big bug

First time trying a game in this franchise, and it`s not unreasonable to say that it might be my last...

The game itself is a joy. Learning the mechanics is quite easy and when you get a grip of them, you can play for hours. That is, if the game could be played for that long. The game crashes so frequently that it makes the realistic experience dissapear.

Summary: Great game, but literally unplayable for now. Will not recommend buying this until they iron out the bugs.

I personally am liking the game a lot.
Yes, its a little buggy and for the thirty five bucks I paid for it I do expect a game in the year 2015 to not have these types of issues. BUT...
I am a cycling fan but this is my first video game of cycling and I find the Pro Cyclist mode to be extremely fun and addicting. Trying to wrap my head around all of the manager stuff on first boot up was too much to take on at the time so I thought I would try the individual first mode first...I love it.
After three seasons I am more than able to pick and choose what races I do, I just signed with Astana for big bucks and have only done one grand tour (Giro de Italia) so I am looking forward to the Vuelta and the Tour of course.
All in all I would recommend game as long as you have a relatively newer PC and all of your drivers must be up to date on the said newer hardware because it does have a few bugs at the moment.

I have played almsot every pro cycling game for the last 8 years. I really like the 1st player career mode, only a few weeks into the season but it is a great addition to a game that over the last few years hasn't added much. Which is why typically I don't suggest buying the new game until it has been out a while. As always with a new game it will crash occastionally and I'm sure they will put out patches soon as the game as only been out 2 days now.

1st person career mode:
You determine what type of cyclist you want to be (sprinter, climber, stage races, et cetera).
Then pick your team, typically a contentional or contentional pro team.
You have a race director or tell you want he would like you do during the race (just like in old career modes you used to give to your riders). So he declares you the leader, or free element, or teammate, and gives specific instructions like don't attack, ride in the breakaway, follow counter attacks, et cetera.
You have a small number of points that you are allowed to use to adjust your race schedule during the year, which is nice when you want to get more training in.
You select how much workload for your training, which in effect hurts your freshness for when races come up, so you need to decide how many rest days you want.
Overall just a great addition, and as always if you like the career mode as a manager that has changed a little, they do R&D now on equipment, but quickly other than that I didn't see any major changes from previous version of the game.

So far I highly recommend this game if you like cycling. I will update if any major issues arise.

This game crashes fairly often and has some non-game breaking glitches. The game auto-saves, so the crashing is at least not causing me to lose any progress (yet).
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Pro-cyclist mode is very fun, easy to enjoy but hard to master. Besides that, it is basically the same game of 2014 with better graphics and very well optimized for modest computers.

It is so relaxing to look at the roads, cities and villages while ordering actions to your team from time to time...

Highly recommended.

Cyanide/Focus: congratulations for the "hype" of these days! Not dissapointed at all!