The game that started the best-selling series licensed by football's world governing body, this first installment in the long running series used a dimetric (colloquially known as "isometric") viewpoint, previously unusual in football games but quickly imitated by several titles. The televisual presentation, one of the unique points of the early EA Sports titles, with hosts introducing the matches, was another thing making the game stand out from a market dominated by Sensible Soccer and Kick Off games.

Based on international teams (with fictional player names), their abilities in each skill area rated out of 10 to give the player an overall impression of how good they are. The options available follow the standard set: fouls and offsides can be toggled on and off, the match length can be set, and if the timer operates continuously, or only while the ball is in play. Gameplay privileges quick runs, short passes and blistering shots outside the penalty box, and set pieces are controlled by moving a box into the target area for the ball, and then passed, lobbed or kicked directly. On the tactical side, formations can be selected, with 5 different strategies also available (although not all of these combinations make sense) as can the team Coverage - the areas which defenders, midfielders and strikers cover.

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Alternate Titles

"FIS" -- Common abbreviation
"FIFA International Soccer Championship Edition" -- Mega CD title
"FIFA 94" -- Post-1995 informal name
"FIFAインターナショナルサッカー" -- Japanese spelling
"EA Soccer" -- Production title

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Part of the Following Groups

Merchant	Title	Platform	Price
	FIFA International Soccer	SNES	$0.99
	FIFA International Soccer	Genesis	$0.01
	FIFA International Soccer-Panasonic 3DO	3DO	$0.01
	FIFA Soccer	Game Boy	$5.00
	FIFA International Soccer
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User Reviews

A useless conversion of an over-rated game	Amiga	Martin Smith (63221)
An absolutely terrible game, with not even one good point...	DOS	Jim Fun (222)

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The Press Says

GameFan Magazine	3DO	Dec, 1994	98 out of 100	98
Game Players	Genesis	Jan, 1994	93 out of 100	93
Total!! UK Magazine	SNES	1994	91 out of 100	91
Digital Press - Classic Video Games	3DO	Mar 20, 2005	9 out of 10	90
SEGA-Mag (Objectif-SEGA)	Genesis	Oct 20, 2008	9 out of 10	90
Consoles Plus	SEGA CD	Sep, 1994	88 out of 100	88
Power Play	DOS	Aug, 1994	81 out of 100	81
GamePro (US)	SNES	Jul, 1994	4 out of 5	80
AmigaInfo	Amiga	May, 1997	77 out of 100	77
The DOS Spirit	DOS	Dec 06, 2009	4.5 out of 6	75

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Trivia

Cover

Some European editions feature Piotr Świerczewski and David Platt (Poland-England match) on the front cover.
Think the Game Gear, Master System and 3DO cover arts look familiar? It's because EA used the same cover from FIFA Soccer '95, complete with the same font type.

Dream team

If you use the EA dream team in the game, and you shoot with the great player H. Van Smeiter making one of the special tricks available, you could also pierce the goal.

Awards

FLUX
- Issue #4 - #53 in the "Top 100 Video Games of All-Time" list
GameFan
- 1994 (Vol.3, Iss.1) - Soccer Game of the Year
Game Players
- January 1995 - Best 3DO game in 1994
GameStar (Germany)
- Issue 12/1999 - #22 in the "100 Most Important PC Games of the Nineties" ranking
VideoGames
- March 1995 - Best 3DO Game in 1994
- March 1995 - Best Sports Game in 1994