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Description
This top-down soccer game has a similar long-range look to Sensible Soccer. The ball runs close to the player, but some fine control is required. Passing involves pushing the controller in the pass direction while hitting fire.
The English Premiership teams of the time are included, with 22 man squads and 8 formation options. You can play individual matches or league or cup tournaments. Match lengths can be set between 2 and 20 minutes, with 3 levels of wind, 3 levels of referee toughness, and 5 pitch styles. Replays can be viewed in 3 speeds, and stored for later viewing.
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Critics
Average score: 90% (based on 1 ratings)
Players
Average score: 2.0 out of 5 (based on 2 ratings with 1 reviews)
Feels like a school project attempt at a Sensi clone
The Good
There are plenty of formations and players available for each team. It has a couple of options that were relatively unusual for the time, such as variable referee strictness and different pitch effects which have a clear difference.
The Bad
The controls are unresponsive and unneccessarily awkward. Having to push in the direction of a pass as you tap the fire button robs it of the one-touch feel of Sensi. Tackling without conceding a foul seems to difficult, and the goalkeepers are a bit error prone.
The menus and option screens are shamelessly similar to Sensi and Goal!, which seems to typify the lack of any kind of original thought. Close clones of games which weren't converted to a system, or were done badly, are forgiveable, but this is shameless, or perhaps talentless.
Only the 22 English Premiership teams of the time are featured, as opposed to the 168 teams in Sensi, and around 100 in Goal.
The Bottom Line
A desperate attempt to cash in on a popular game on a dying system. It's no surprise that Impact were never heard of again, as they got virtually nothing right in this one.
Atari ST · by Martin Smith (81666) · 2007
Trivia
An Amiga conversion was completed and reviewed by at least one magazine in late 1995, but is not believed to have been released - no disk images or box scans exist.
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Game added by Martin Smith.
Game added January 5, 2007. Last modified February 22, 2023.