Thanks to the power of SNES Online, I get to experience another sport I am woefully below average at. Let's... ahem... kick things off, shall we? BACKGROUND:
Unlike tennis, which I don't usually follow, I actually enjoy football in a very casual sense. I'm not any good at playing, and I don't really keep tabs on shit like the Premier League, but I do appreciate the sport. In terms of video games, the only football games I've played were the NES Soccer game (which, like most NES sports games, I felt indifferent about) and Mario Strikers Charged for the Wii (an incredibly fun and wacky game, much like most other Mario sports games). I haven't played any of the more modern games like EA's FIFA games or Pro Evolution Soccer. SUMMARY: Again, it's the sport of football in video game form. If you understand the basic objective of "kick the ball into the other team's goal", you'll survive. There are two modes: Tournament, which is your single player campaign (but you can play it in co-op mode with a friend), and Exhibition, where you can play either a regular football game or face off in a penalty shootout against either CPUs or a second player. That's pretty much it, but really, what more do you need for a game like this? You can play as one of 16 national teams, each with their own stats. A quick Google search of the 1990 FIFA World Cup results reveals that some of the ratings seem to be based on the results of said World Cup (e.g. Germany, who won the World Cup that year, has the best stats, Argentina is the second best, etc.). I wasn't around then, so that's as much as I can say on the matter. Before you get into a game. you can select the formation of your team, which will dictate their positions on the pitch as you play. You can also switch out the starting players' positions (who each have individual stats, and set whether the goalie acts automatically or manually. It's not a lot, but the number of possible formations and player configurations lends itself well to a decent amount of experimentation. The game's kind of tough to get a hang of at first, and I had a lot of trouble maintaining possession and getting passes right. The other members of your team also move rather erratically as they constantly alternate between CPU control and manual control, which doesn't help at all. Games take a decent chunk of time, with each half lasting five minutes. Those five minutes feel like a goddamn eternity when you're struggling with the controls, and I strongly suggest you figure out the controls with a friend instead of frustrating yourself with a CPU match. VERDICT: Super Soccer is a little challenging to get into, but once you get a hang of it, you have yourself a decent football video game with a lot of pre-game options to mess around with. Again, I'll probably stick to the wackier football games, but I did really enjoy the penalty shootout mode, so I may return to this game regularly just for that. - end -
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