Review by YOR on 15 Aug 2021 (Rating: 1)
Gee, remember when this was a thing everybody? Well back in 1991 CDS Microsystems came up with the ridiculously insidious concept way before Florentino Perez attempted such a monstrosity. And who do we have in this “Superleague” then? In order of selection, Arsenal, Rangers, Barcelona, AC Milan, Marseilles, Bayern Munich, Liverpool and PSV Eindhoven. Well they managed to correctly predict four of the teams right 30 years on. I chose Bayern just because, and picking Bayern I thought “well it's not going to make much sense since the players will be English”, but no in actual fact the squads are accurate, Scottish international Alan McInally for instance is in my team, can't help but think that's a bit naughty because I mean, did you get a licence to use real life player names in your game CDS? Hate to draw to conclusions but the likelihood, is no. Anyway, whilst it's more graphically represented compared to most football manager games it's still a bit naff. You spend most of the time doing next to nothing and when something does come up like tactics selection, you have to bloody wait for the time rather than go to it immediately or at least it didn't let me. So I just waited till I was late and then proceeded, better late than never. As for the match screen, it too relies on graphics more with pictures appearing on screen as the action happens, almost reminiscent of Roy of the Rovers. Also, there's no sound anywhere in the game at all. And first match I lost, how predictable. Well what do I make of it? It's a drag. Graphics and presentation wise it's a bit of a step up I guess compared to say just text and a bunch of loading, but however there is a lot of waiting, like right now it's 12:02 I have a board meeting at 16:00 and I get told off because I'm early, so now I have to wait till 16:00 for the board meeting to commence. This is actually more painful to wait than loading! It tries to go above and beyond to be a compelling football manager game rather than the same ol' BASIC nonsense we had dealt with before, but in the end the BASIC football manager games had a setup and structure that at least worked whereas this doesn't. Oh and the board meeting? Well he saw I was leavng without doing my work and so he sacked me, after one match. And how much did this cost? £12.99 for tape and £14.99 for disk. Well, my experience with European Superleague did not last long, which is pretty ironic given the real European Superleague set up 30 years later went kapoot in about 72 hours after its creation. There's nothing left for me to say except fuck the concept and everyone involved in it.
