Reviews

Slightly more professional version of its predecessor, with less clumsy features.

Which were the only worth things in the first game.

The goal scoring idea is quite good, but it lacks the graphic, sound (has none) and playability qualities it had in the previous game.

The sequel to Footballer of the Year, this one I owned back in the day and I absolutely loved it! A lot of people tell me the first game was better, I beg to differ...well only because I owned this one and not the original.

You now control the player and must follow the "goal route" as shown on the blackboard before the game, or for pete's sake, stick some blu-tac on your spot and walk towards it. Simples!

The only gripe is that Irish Rovers is meant to be Shamrock Rovers and Swansea Town is meant to be Swansea City. Also they took out the incident cards which was a lot of fun in the original. They replaced it with a quiz, not as fun to be honest.

This probably is not as good as the first game in hindsight but this gives me so much nostalgia and I have many great memories of this game.

I am not entirely sure if Footballer of the Year really needed a sequel but nevertheless here it is, and well it wasn't long before I preferred the first one. Instead of working your way up through the divisions like you did in FOTY 1, here you have one league mixed with English and Scottish teams as well as Swansea Town of Wales, and Irish Rovers for some reason. The incident cards from the first games are gone but incidents still take place randomly during the games, it just happens when they say and not you. Instead we have a Double or Nothing quiz game where you play from a minimum of £10 to a maximum of £500 and you have to answer three questions correctly in which your money is doubled each time, get it wrong and you lose the money. Well it's different but nowadays it's easy money because you can pause the game, look up the answer and you win, and some of the questions are poorly written anyway so chances are you lost your money more times than won back in the day. The gameplay itself has changed too, instead of just moving the ball to a part of the goal and shooting, you control your player while players pass the ball and you have to walk to the point of where the ball will last travel to as shown on the blackboard tactics. You also choose your goal cards before each match between A and U. I guess it's an attempt to make it look more realistic and more like a simulator, but it honestly makes the game a complicated mess. Even when the blackboard shows you where the ball will travel too during the play you're still left confused as to where to go and where to stand by the time the ball comes near you. Like one of them is a penalty kick that you never take and they always miss and you have to score afterwards, but it never tells you where to go, plus one of the players isn't behind the ball when the penalty is taken and is clearly offside when given the ball that is then fed to you. And come to think of it you can be miles offside yourself in some plays and you won't be fouled for it. Was this meant to be like a simulator? Because it sure as heck doesn't play like one it is was. There are always defenders in the game but unlike the first game where they can tackle you, here they are just stiffs who don't move, and so is the goalie for that matter too. The first game had simple and effective gameplay that worked and was fun, this one however has stripped away everything that was great about the first game and turned it into a boring, complex, walk to a spot to score game. Hate to say it, but it's another shitty sequel. I'l just go back and continue my saved game for FOTY 1, if you don't mind.

I never knew a sequel for this existed until years later and it was a good job I didn't because I certainly would have bought it and found myself a bit disappointed with it.

It's alright but I didn't really enjoy the route-based gameplay that made scoring a goal down to simply standing on the right spot on the route rather than actually firing a ball into the goal.

This was more luck and memory based rather than skill, and so I much prefer the first game to this.