Goalscoring superstar hero!
Tinker with the camera angle, height and zoom and you’ve got a pretty decent handheld clone of Sensible Soccer. That is my quick first impression from playing a custom tournament of classic English club sides full of legends after a bit of a go with the player and team editor. As I swerved home a great long range effort with aftertouch from Jay Jay OkochaGoalscoring superstar hero!
Tinker with the camera angle, height and zoom and you’ve got a pretty decent handheld clone of Sensible Soccer. That is my quick first impression from playing a custom tournament of classic English club sides full of legends after a bit of a go with the player and team editor. As I swerved home a great long range effort with aftertouch from Jay Jay Okocha to Nat Lofthouse’s head, the good feelings about 1990’s Sensible Soccer sessions returned! The passing, the shooting, the tackling etc all feel very similar to that much loved game. You have multiple difficulty levels, speeds, camera angles, replays, the ability to store a library of replays. I found playing on handheld mode more enjoyable than docked.
After playing I looked around the editing areas and found that you can edit player names and team names, but not abilities or kits (although you can mix and match home and away colours prematch to avoid clashes). I would say that while the collection of classic club and classic international sides is very extensive (the largest I’ve seen before in any football game) - the actual font used in the menus could have been clearer for editing purposes. At least it is there though, which means a potentially long shelf life for football lovers/anoraks like me who are interested in historical players. The sheer number of classic teams is very impressive, must have taken some research and there is a nice spread of the legendary Eastern European/Soviet bloc teams as well as the fairly standard array of Western European classic club teams. There’s a lot of South American classic club teams too. Editing is better in handheld than tv mode I found.
Career mode I haven’t had chance to test so won’t pass comment on and neither have I had chance to test out local multiplayer. There is a tutorial section in the rather bland front menus and also a replay section for reliving those great goals which you are given the option to record during the game.
Overall:
It plays similarly to 1990s Amiga soccer classic Sensible Soccer when you have tinkered with the settings. I don’t think it hits the same heights, but the goals are still very satisfying once you get comfortable with the gameplay. It might take practice and it will certainly take patience with the editor to get all the correct names of teams and players. As a pick up and play handheld game it’s a decent stab at an all time classic.… Expand
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