Keith Van Eron's Pro Soccer

Microprose Soccer is without doubt one of the greatest 64 games to date, and I don't expect we'll see anything as good as quite some time to come. Miss it at your peril.

Extremely playable and visually appealing with plenty of variety.

Combines fast arcade style action in what must be the most complete, if not the best football simulation on the 64.

Darauf habe ich all die Jahre gewartet: Endlich gibt‘s eine spielerisch gelungene Fußball-Simulation mit Liga-Modus. vielen Computer-Gegnern, Weltmeisterschaft und anderen Features. Sensible Software legt mit “Microprose Soccer“ einmal mehr ein erstklassiges und mit viel Hingabe ausgetüfteltes Spiel vor. Nach den enttäuschenden Fußball-Simulationen, die zur Europameisterschaft veröffentlicht wurden, ist Microprose Soccer die Erlösung für alle gefrusteten Fußball-Freaks. Allein für die herrlichen Zeitlupen-Wiederholungen nach jedem Tor haben die Programmierer eine Goldmedaille verdient, Eine Kleinigkeit hat mich allerdings etwas gestört: Die zwei Mannschaften sind bei bestimmten Trikotfarben nur schwer voneinander zu unterscheiden. Trotzdem sollte dieses Programm bei jedem Sportspiel-Freak zu Hause im Regal stehen.

The best overhead footy sim we've seen so far. Buy this and Emlyn Hughes and you've got the two best footy games on the 64.

Microprose Soccer is of the highest quality - it's fast action makes it far more playable than other soccer games.

Spielerisch gibt‘s an dem Programm nicht viel zu meckern: Beim Hallen- und Stadion-Fußball werden Tempo, Tricks und tolle Tore satt geboten.

Die Grafik sieht leicht verbessert aus; der Spielfluß ist aber nicht ganz so rasant wie beim C 64. Trotzdem empfiehlt sich diese Umsetzung als bisher beste Fußball-Simulation für den Atari ST.

Microprose Soccer is a pretty good game. Overall a pleasant pheasant of a game. Load Microprose Soccer and have a laugh.

The Amiga game, trailing behind the other formats, is not tardy in its presentation, however, and is just as playable as the others. With all its frills 'n' fun, one of the best action football games around.

Fazit: eine ordentliche Umsetzung. Gute Fußballspiele auf PCs sind ohnehin rar.

One of the annoying features of Microprose Soccer is that you can run straight through the man in possession without actually tackling him. To tackle, the fire button has to be pressed. It is not a serious pain, but this and several other factors make it lose out to Kick Off in the ‘best footie game’ stakes. The larger graphics merely reduce the on-screen playing area and do not improve the gameplay at all. The action is much slower as well, losing the adrenalin rush of non-stop action. This is not a bad game, but it just is not as good as Kick Off. It has more features though: the indoor league is of particular interest, and the different types of competition add interest too.

Where its 8 bit counterpart is super league Microprose Soccer simply fails to make the first division – simply because it is not as good. First impressions are promising with a couple of nice blue digitised stills on the options screen, but once the game is loaded you rapidly realise that the conversion is less than inspired. The major problem is that it is too slow and lacks the playability of Kick Off. You are not going to get excited about this, just steamed up by its limitations. Graphically, there is little difference which is alright, but sound is disappointing. Second best may sound like a good performance, but not in a two horse race.

Immediately playable and long lasting in appeal it may be but it doesn’t look at all like an Amiga game with no more than adequate use made of the Amiga’s graphics and sound (arty farty ‘trumpet’ sounds strike again). There’s smooth scrolling with a fast pace to match but other than the digitised pictures there’s nothing to suggest it’s running on one of the most powerful micros around. Give me Kick Off any day.

I remember thinking how good this was when it was initally released on the C64 all those years back. Today it looks dated and nowhere near as good as Kick Off II.