Trivia
Controls
A wide range of shots - including aftertouch - are available, and fully accessible with a one-button joystick.
Controversy
Famed UK journalist Stuart Campbell of Amiga Power magazine was renowned for his vicious hatred of this game - he found the controls really hard to grasp, with the ball whizzing around the pitch seemingly, to him, at random. This created a lot of friction among readers of this and other magazines, especially when he became an obsessive fan of
Sensible Soccer and ultimately began working for
Sensible Software. By the time Amiga Power magazine closed in 1996, Stuart was writing for them again, and his final review for them saw him give
Kick Off 96 (which wasn't written by main
Kick Off 2 author
Dino Dini) a score of 1% (the trivia entry for the game explains why - he wasn't merely being petty).
Remake
The in 2002 release remake
Kick Off 2002 has almost exactly the same cover art as
Kick Off 2. The only difference: the '2' in the
front cover art is replaced with "02".
Awards
- Amiga Joker
- Issue 01/1991 – Best Sports Game in 1990
Information also contributed by
Indra was here and
Martin Smith
