Reviews

One of the most overrated games ever - on the C64 at least -, Microprose Soccer is a soccer arcade game vaguely reminiscent of the venerable Tehkan World Cup coin-op.

Looks pretty flashy initially but interest wanes as soon as you realise that the only way to score a goal is 90% of the time a diagonal shot just a little out of the goal area. Even more unrealistic is the infamous "banana shot" - luckily, it can be turned off.

MS was a bit more playable on the C64 due to the different colors of playing teams. On the Spectrum, the two-color scheme (green and black) makes such distinction harder.

Not a turkey - it's competently programmed - but certainly not up to the hype which marked its release.

This time MicroProse have a go at making soccer legend with....MicroProse Soccer...generic or what? So how does it fare compared to the others? Well it's not rubbish but again it's not that great, most of the time the ball goes in all sorts of directions when you kick it, which is annoying. And usually you can just walk through the net to score because the goalies, per usual, are rubbish...that's fun.

So not utter tripe by any means, in fact this is pretty good for a change, but in terms of greatness it just skims over the crossbar I think. Oh well they gave it a good go.

Another football game and another stinker. It's almost impossible to tell the two teams apart and that alone renders the game unplayable.
It's hard to believe that the team behind this would go on to produce the best football game ever, Sensible Soccer.