FIFA 99

aka: FIFA '99: European League Soccer

Moby ID: 1188

Released

November 1998 on Windows

Credits

259 people

Releases by Date (by platform)

Publishers

Developers

Electronic Arts Canada

Moby Score

8.2

#1,155 of 165K

Critics

89% (44)

Players

(56)

Ranking

#21 on Nintendo 64
#169 on PlayStation
#231 on Windows

Collected By

125 players

Genre: Sports
Perspective: Diagonal-down
Visual: 2D scrolling
Interface: Direct control
Multiple units/characters control
Sport: Football (European) / Soccer
Misc: Licensed

Windows Specs

ESRB Rating: Everyone

Business Model: Commercial
Media Type: CD-ROM
Input Devices Supported: Keyboard, Mouse, Other Input Devices
Multiplayer Options: LAN, Modem, Same/Split-Screen
Number of Offline Players: 1-4 Players
Number of Online Players: 2-8 Players

Description official descriptions

This was the third FIFA title in a little over a year. It incorporates 42 national sides, as well as 250 club teams from 12 different leagues, to play a complete true-to-life season, the preset Super League, or a league or cup of your own design. Formations and tactics can be set, and players can be moved between teams.

Gameplay can be viewed from multiple angles. Players have more animation than ever before, with new moves including sliding challenges and close-control trapping. Goalkeepers now have a level of human control.

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Credits (Windows version)

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Executive Producer	Bruce E. McMillan
Director, Product Development	Warren Wall
Producer	Marc Aubanel
Franchise Development Director	Gaivan Chang
Franchise Associate Producer	Andy Abramovici
Associate Producer	Mike Larsen
Assistant Producer	Nicholas Wlodyka
Development Director	Mark Lutz
Franchise Engineering Architect	Matthew Brown
Franchise Art Lead	Jackie Marie Ritchie
Franchise In-Game Art Lead	David Bollesen
Senior Art Advisor	David Adams
Lead Programmer	Yossarian King
Programmers	Desmond Fernando Vince Jewlal Paul McComas Kevin P. Pickell
Lead Artist	Tracey Dear
Artists	Ladislav Konopa Margaret Livesey Laura Luris
Core Team Production	Brent Disbrow Robert Kaill Nick Malaperiman Kerry Whalen
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Reviews

Critics

Average score: 89% (based on 44 ratings)

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Average score: 3.7 out of 5 (based on 56 ratings with 0 reviews)

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Trivia

Cartridge limitations

The cartridge versions of FIFA 99 suffer from many of the same limitations and quality issues as its predecessor. Compared to their CD-ROM PlayStation counterpart, they perform poorly and are lacking some of the more refined details and graphics.

Amazon's product description for the game includes the line: "Plus, the Nintendo 64 can handle only one in-game announcer who speaks in clipped phrases, rather than the two-man banter in the PlayStation version. The otherwise decent music also takes a drop in quality because of cartridge limitations."

Portugal lawsuit

Similar to Actua Soccer 3, Electronic Arts faced a possible lawsuit in Portugal for using player and team names without authorization from FutePro, the legal owner of them. While Gremlin's product was pulled from the stores, FIFA (which for the first time had a localized cover featuring national team and Fiorentina midfielder Rui Costa) continued to be sold as long as stores wanted to. There was no news of an agreement between both parts, but either EA paid compensation or FutePro decided to let the issue die fearing long and expensive legal procedures.

Awards

Computer Gaming World
- April 1999 (Issue #177) – Best Sports Game of the Year (together with FIFA 98: Road to World Cup and World Cup 98)
Power Play
- Issue 02/1999 – Best Sports Game in 1998
Total! (Germany)
- Issue 01/2000 – Best N64 Soccer Game in 1999