Let me start this review with a spoiler; for me, Sports Interactive's Football Manager Touch 2017 [$19.99 (HD)] is probably the most complicated (yet still accessible), most replayable, and most entertaining game on the App Store. This is a game that lets you play any team from over 130 leagues across the world, and all those teams have their real-life players in their roster, and each of those players has his real-life stats (as well as those can be put into numbers). And you can play with that team for season after season all the while customizing it in all kinds of ways. I'm constantly amazed at all the little things I discover in this game as I go along, features and details that make playing the game faster while at the same time giving me more ways to interact with my team, my board, my training staff, and pretty much everyone in the world of Football Manager. So, as you can already tell, I think this game is terrific and an improvement over Football Manager Touch 2016, albeit in subtle ways. However, not all is rosy unfortunately. FMT 2017 is only playable on top-of-the-line tablets, yet it still crashes way too often on my iPad Air. The crashing is pretty persistent and is quite a big blemish on what is otherwise a fantastic game. Yes, there's been an update that presumably has fixed some of those issues, but go in knowing that you'll get numerous irritating crashes on the older high-end devices.
Football Manager games have often been called "spreadshe...