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10/04/2008, 2:11 PM
Dr. Ogba

Best Ever Football Game

Surprised there hasn't been a thread for this already but here goes...

Has to be Kick Off 2 on the Amiga for me, not exactly for the realism but purely for the speed, playability and skill required to master the bloody thing. A lot of people would go for sensible soccer from that era but, for me, that game was just for people that weren't skillful enough to play KO2. Plus you had the added bonus of being able to score from the halfway line and being able to get half of your team sent off if you had a card-happy ref....good times!!

Maybe I'm showing my age here (bah!) but must say that the pro-evo's and fifa's of this world pale in comparison! in playability terms that is....
10/04/2008, 2:14 PM
superfrank

Konami's International Superstar Soccer (or something similar) on the Super Nintendo is my favourite game ever. I used to play it for hours. Unfortunately, noone has Nintendos anymore.

After that, FIFA 98, with all the countries of FIFA and the indoor 5-a-side game.

Football Manager is plenty fun, but not in the same vein.
10/04/2008, 2:56 PM
tetsujin1979

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Originally Posted by superfrank

After that, FIFA 98, with all the countries of FIFA and the indoor 5-a-side game.

Yeah, that indoor mode was great craic, still beats the hell out of some full price games like FIFA Street :rolleyes:
10/04/2008, 3:00 PM
Block G Raptor

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Originally Posted by superfrank

Konami's International Superstar Soccer (or something similar) on the Super Nintendo is my favourite game ever. I used to play it for hours. Unfortunately, noone has Nintendos anymore.

After that, FIFA 98, with all the countries of FIFA and the indoor 5-a-side game.

Football Manager is plenty fun, but not in the same vein.

Download an emulator. was just playing International Superstar Soccer on my PC the other day using a snes emulator. most of the games are free to download as they are no longer available and/or no longer covered by copyright
10/04/2008, 3:06 PM
passinginterest

Fifa Road to World Cup 98 was my favourite. Wore the disk out. Featured Blur's Song 2 on the soundtrack.
10/04/2008, 3:08 PM
jbyrne

sensible world of soccer as you could manage the team as well as play. absolutely adictive in my student days
10/04/2008, 3:08 PM
anto1208

Hated kick off it was way too easy . Match day 2 on the spectrum one of the first games to attempt the side on view, is my early favourite . Sensi was good aswell but to simplistic.

But never revisit the games i thought it would be a good laugh to download sensi for the xbox 360 sweet jesus was that game terrible and i think that was the one released in 96 ( world of sensi soccer)and was hailed as the best thing ever.

Pro evo is the king there is no contest fond childhood memories are clouding judgment here i think. Pro evo 5 i think on ps2 was the pinicle of footy games.

None of the Fifa games could hold a candle to it .

ISS is from konami but from a different division than Pro evo but if you really want to go way back to the NES 8bit Hyper soccer was the first of the Pro evo / ISS games from konami it was at the time amazing.
10/04/2008, 3:12 PM
bellavistaman

Pro Ev, nothing comes near it. Fifa 2002 was top class but went totally down hill from there.
10/04/2008, 3:15 PM
jebus

FIFA Road to World Cup 98 beats the daylights out of any other footie console game, the only game to ever get free kicks spot on. Pro Evo 2 gets an honourable mention, but nothing has come close to RtWC for me. I still have my SNES and play ISS quite a bit though, it's still fun to be honest
10/04/2008, 3:18 PM
superfrank

How do you get SNES?
10/04/2008, 3:42 PM
anto1208

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Originally Posted by superfrank

How do you get SNES?

First get a flux capacitator and a Delorian.........

Ebay should have them .... mine got robbed :mad:
10/04/2008, 3:43 PM
superfrank

Quote:

Originally Posted by anto1208

First get a flux capacitator and a Delorian.........

Ebay should have them .... mine got robbed :mad:

Sorry meant SNES emulator.
10/04/2008, 3:44 PM
Pike B

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Originally Posted by anto1208

First get a flux capacitator and a Delorian.........

Ebay should have them .... mine got robbed :mad:

I ROBBED IT... :D
10/04/2008, 3:48 PM
passinginterest

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Originally Posted by Pike B

I ROBBED IT... :D

Limerick heads, not happy with stabbing in the back now they're stabbing in the past! :D
10/04/2008, 3:49 PM
Block G Raptor

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Originally Posted by superfrank

Sorry meant SNES emulator.

It's just a simple Download,SNES9x is what I use and also CCS64 great Commodore 64 emulator
Google for it. Don't want to post links here coz I'm not sure of the legality of them
10/04/2008, 3:54 PM
Dr. Ogba

Quote:

Originally Posted by anto1208

First get a flux capacitator and a Delorian.........

Ebay should have them .... mine got robbed :mad:

I still have a n64 knocking about somewhere actually, must dig it out for a game of ISS if only for its class commentary "and the midfield battle rages on..." :D
10/04/2008, 3:54 PM
superfrank

Quote:

Originally Posted by Block G Raptor

It's just a simple Download,SNES9x is what I use and also CCS64 great Commodore 64 emulator
Google for it. Don't want to post links here coz I'm not sure of the legality of them

Cheers.
10/04/2008, 4:00 PM
jebus

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Originally Posted by superfrank

How do you get SNES?

E Bay, there's loads of them there for about €70, well worth it
10/04/2008, 4:00 PM
gilberto_eire

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Originally Posted by passinginterest

Fifa Road to World Cup 98 was my favourite. Wore the disk out. Featured Blur's Song 2 on the soundtrack.

I'd say that was the first game to use songs by artists. Now that i think of it, this was probably the best ''pound for pound'' if you compare it to even '97 it was mind-blowing, i remember going into Smyths in Galway(everyone used to go in and play games against each other) when it was released and just going ''WOW''

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Originally Posted by bellavistaman

Pro Ev, nothing comes near it. Fifa 2002 was top class but went totally down hill from there.

FIFA 2002 and was the last of the FIFA series been on top, me and a few friends ALWAYS used to play this game, we used to do UEFA cups(2 legs) and have a leg each against each other to try knock one another out, used to always pick Anderlecht and Leeds(Leeds had a great side then) and would normally whoop the lads:cool:.
Very good aspect in that game was the R1 L2/ R2 L2 to swerve the ball in the direction of the back button, long goals were also possible in this one!!.

Year after that we turned to ''Pro Evo 3'', the next FIFA i believe was when they started to slow it down and introduce many aspects which are still there today.

Can only wonder if FIFA kept progressing from 2002, like they had been up until that, what could have been!!
10/04/2008, 8:12 PM
superfrank

Now have ISS again thanks to the emulator and it's so nostalgic.

"No foul?!?"

"Goal, goal, GOAL!"

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