The late-1997 edition of FIFA was heavily tied in with the qualifying procedure for the 1998 World Cup. In the Road to the World Cup mode, you take a team from first qualification through to the main tournament, using the varying systems in different parts of the world. The game features 16 distinct outdoor stadia. The League play features 189 clubs and 11 leagues. Each team has specific crowd chants incorporated into the ambient sound.

The action is faster than in previous versions, and AI has been expanded. Players have distinct facial feature and hair styles. Each match is introduced by Des Lynam and commentated on by John Motson and former Scotland international Andy Gray.

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Alternate Titles

"Rumbo a la Copa Mundial" -- Spanish title
"FIFA 98: The Road to the World Cup" -- Game Boy in-game title
"FIFA 98: Rumbo al Mundial" -- Spanish title
"FIFA 98: En route pour la coupe du monde" -- French title
"FIFA 98: Die WM-Qualifikation" -- German title
"FIFA 98: A Caminho da Copa" -- Brazilian title

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Part of the Following Groups

Merchant	Title	Platform	Price
	FIFA: Road to the World Cup '98	PlayStation
	FIFA Road to World Cup 98	Nintendo 64
	World Cup '98	Game Boy
	FIFA: Road to the World Cup '98	SEGA Saturn	$0.97
	FIFA 98: Road to World Cup
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User Reviews

EA Sports' swan song to the American Saturn and Sega	SEGA Saturn	Fake Spam (94)
FIFA 98 is THE best FIFA game out there.	Windows	Diamond Titan (63)
Soccer is LAME.	Windows	Tomer Gabel (4418)

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The Press Says

PSX Extreme	PlayStation	Feb, 1998	94 out of 100	94
PC Action	Windows	Dec 17, 1997	91.5 out of 100	92
Gamesmania	Windows	1997	90 out of 100	90
Reset	Windows	Nov, 1997	9 out of 10	90
PC Jeux	Windows	Dec, 1997	89 out of 100	89
Mega Score	Genesis	Mar, 1998	88 out of 100	88
IGN	PlayStation	Nov 24, 1997	8.5 out of 10	85
Gamezilla	PlayStation	1997	82 out of 100	82
Nintendo Power Magazine	Nintendo 64	Feb, 1998	8.1 out of 10	81
Adrenaline Vault, The (AVault)	Windows	Jan 01, 1998		80

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Trivia

Cover

The German front cover shows the Andreas Möller. He won the Champions League with Borussia Dortmund and the European Championship with the German national team (both 1996).

Offside

The 32-bit version of FIFA 98 was the first game in the series to do a proper interpretation of the off-side rule. Until then, most players turned off the option because if a player was offside, doing anything else with ball except running stopped the play immediately - even if the ball was passed backwards and nowhere near the offside player!