Reviews

Now we are heading in the right direction with these soccer games....WRONG! They are getting worse! This might well go down as maybe THE worst soccer game on the ZX Spectrum...because it crashes nearly all the time! I played this nine times and eight of those crashed before finishing the match, usually after the first half and it crashes before the second half...the one game I finished (a 2-2 draw) I started a new game which had the computer score DIRECTLY from a throw-in, which is actually illegal in real-life...oh and then 15 seconds later it crashed...can you say justice for the win?

Absolute rubbish! Maybe more rubbish than Gazza's Super Soccer which really is saying something! This shows why this was never released as a standalone game and only in the 4th Dimension compilation as well as in a Your Sinclair covertape....mind you with that compilation you still technically paid for this...imagine the agony!

This too came out on Hewson's 4th Dimension compilation and never on its own, and I can see why. As Raphie's review stated the game had the tendency to crash but I figured that it was a problem with the Z80 snapshot, so I made a new one directly from the 4th Dimension compilation and it never crashed so that is that sorted. However, it's still worth noting that even after this the gameplay is highly broken. The players constantly clash and flicker and bounce off each other like pinballs, the colours are glitched in that you can choose to play as yellow vs red yet you play in blue instead of red, the goalkeepers are just outfield players and they never actually dive to save the ball, you can't tackle, directly aiming for goal from a throw-in is the only way throw-ins are effective, there is a lot wrong with this game, even the goalnets look like something out of an Etch A Sketch. This is easily one of the very worst football games I've ever played.

If the Monty Python's made a sketch about soccer, this is what it would look like. Utter nonsense.