Windows

FIFA 98: Road to World Cup

Description

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.

Alternate Titles

• "Rumbo a la Copa Mundial" -- Spanish 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

Part of the Following Groups

• EA FIFA series
• EA Sports games
• FIFA World Cup licensees

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User Reviews

FIFA 98 is THE best FIFA game out there.	Diamond Titan (63)
Soccer is LAME.	Tomer Gabel (4476)

The Press Says

Gamezilla	1997	96 out of 100	96
PC Games (Germany)	Dec 03, 1997	93 out of 100	93
PC Action	Dec 17, 1997	91.5 out of 100	92
Reset	Nov, 1997	9 out of 10	90
PC Player (Germany)	Dec, 1997	89 out of 100	89
PC Gameplay (Benelux)	Dec, 1997	89 out of 100	89
GameStar (Germany)	Dec, 1997	88 out of 100	88
GameSpot	Jan 13, 1998	8.8 out of 10	88
MikroBitti	Jan, 1998	86 out of 100	86
Kingdom of Desire	Jun 07, 2008	8 out of 10	80

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Trivia

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!