'Wicked,'
'Brill' and 'Hurrah'
are just a few of
the words which
didn't spring to mind when I
was 'invited' to write this
review. Nope. 'Why me'
seemed slightly more
appropriate because, as you
people can probably
imagine, I wasn't exactly
thrilled to bits at the thought of
having to plough my way through yet
another footie game. Then again, I
suppose someone had to do it - it's
just unfortunate that it had to be me.
Ho hum. You know the story. Pick a team (to
manage of course). Chose your players. Play a
game or two. Snore. And yes, readers, it's all as
boring as ever, although apparently this one's
'revolutionary'. Blimey! I can't help thinking that
perhaps they confused the word 'revolutionary'
with 'crap' because, as I feared, it really is a load
of old tosh. The only revolutionary thing about it
is the strange control system it's lumbered with
(we really are talking Weird City and a half here).
Let me explain. Rather than sort of wibbling the
joystick to control each player individually, as in
Match Day or
Italy 1990, you chose which player
you want to move, move this little cursor to where
you want him to go, press 'fire' and off he
trundles. Exciting, eh? You can (of course) set it
so that he kicks the ball, or dribbles with it or
whatever. It sounds a bit useless and it is a bit
useless - by the time I've worked out what's going
on the opposing side have scored around ten
goals. Ahem.
Righty ho. I hope you've understood what I've
been on about so far (unlikely), but even if you
didn't it doesn't matter too much - all you really
need to know is that this game seems to have had
more than its fair quota of beef (i.e. It's a bit mad).
And it's a bit nob. Everything is so small that you
can't really see what's going on (so the ball gets
lost far too much) and the management side of
things (which could potentially save it) seems
pretty ropey as well. You can skip the manager bit
if you want and just get a result of the match but
this isn't really advisable because you always
seem to lose. (Of course, since I always lose
anyway, this could be a blessing in disguise
because it saves all that hassle with fiddling
around with players and things).
And there you go really. Hours of fun (I don't
think).