Sensible World of Soccer has to be the greatest ever football simulator. Many hours of my youth were spent searching through the Indian and Asian leagues trying to find a player with the pace of Jean Pierre Papin and the shot power of Pierre Van Hoojidonk.
A truly excellent football game that never gets boring, the graphics are so basic and the controls so simple, but the entire same if you a score a diving header there is no better feeling.
Any person who spent there early teens in the 90's will swear by this game, its the only reason why I haven't sold my Amiga 600 and Jet fighter joystick yet. Anybody who plays this game must sigh Hugo the left winger from Flamengo in Brazil he is awesome.
The tactics of this game are very simple send a long ball from defense by passing the midfield to your star striker. You really have to make an effort to involve your left and right wingers, and your full backs are none existent, but if you do get them involved you can string together some nice short passing play which makes your eventual goal so much more enjoyable.
This is the only game that
can be genuinely gutting when you see your little man go down from a tackle and lie there injured, i was depressed for hours when Davor Suker was injured for 8 weeks, done get me wrong I had a good replacement in Patrice Loko, but Suker had banged 47 goals and that’s not easy to come to terms with.
The players come in only three varieties, ginger haired blokes, black haired blokes and Black blokes, but even with this small selection it is still surprising how accurate some of these chaps are to the actual players, Andy Impey looks identical to the Andy Impey in sensible soccer and I always thought Jose Dominguez was a bit of a ringer too. But seriously this is the best Amiga game ever and has to be one of the all time greats. Sensible were on top of the world this Sensible Soccer, Cannon Fodder and Meglomania it’s just a shame they never really moved with the times as they would be producing top titles now.
Top 10 in the all time game greats!
