Worse than that, the players often seemed as though they were doing their own thing and you sometimes spent more time battling the control system than playing football. The original FIFA often degenerated into a series of long range shots, interspersed with charging down the keeper's drop kicks when you were a goal down with seconds remaining. The PC version was virtually a straight conversion of the original Megadrive game and whilst it was graphically the best football game around, it just didn't have the playability of Sensible Soccer and perhaps even the Amiga Kick Off 2, even if the latter did sometimes play a little like a pinball game.

When the 3DO version of FIFA appeared a while back, us PC owners were left drooling over the quality of the multiple camera views and stunning graphics.

It is the second game to feature the new Virtual Stadium technology (the first being NHL Hockey '96). Read Full Review The new king of the football sims ?įIFA Soccer '96 (hereafter known as FIFA96) is the eagerly awaited next generation version of Electronic Art's footy game.

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