Reviews

There were a lot of dodgy soccer games on the ZX Spectrum and I believe I may have found the very worst. Every aspect of this game is horrendous, it's absolutely no fun whatsoever. The whole screen's a mess, the AI is ridiculously stupid and the game plays incredibly bad.

Even if you are the most die-hard of die-hard Liverpool fans don't even waste your breath on this turkey.

Kenny Dalglish also had an arcade football game under his game, one that is less memorable than his football manager game, and with good reason. Well for starters we have a pretty decent illustration of Kenny himself, even if it kind of looks like he's having a mid-match chocolate snack. I find it funny that you choose to enter names for the “Reds” and the “Blues” yet the teams aren't actually red nor blue. The gameplay itself is utterly atrocious, controlling the ball is a pain, you can't seem to kick the ball unless you stop moving and passing is non-existent. The biggest laugh however is the kick-off which is treated like a face-off, even if one team scores. The computer players are dumb even on “amazing” skill and while playing it on a faster setting improves the gameplay a tiny bit it only shows off the game's flaws even more. The game ended when the opposition glitched the throw-in and the ball got stuck out of play. No further comment, other than this is one of the worst football games I've played in my life.

After the hilariously corrosive yet true criticism done by fellow reviewer YOR, I have not much to add to this marketing exploitation of carrier peaked Liverpool soccer player which name was borrowed in order to milk a few more sales, following the also very profitable 1990 Italy World Cup (note sure it the game was released before of after the competition). Like with many tie-in's this game was solely written thinking about ca$$$h!