FIFA: Road to World Cup 98

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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.

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Alternate Titles

• "FIFA: Rumbo al Mundial 98" -- Spanish title
• "FIFA: En route pour la coupe du monde 98" -- French title
• "FIFA: Die WM-Qualifikation 98" -- German title
• "FIFA: A Caminho da Copa 98" -- Brazilian title
• "FIFA ロード・トゥ・ワールドカップ 98" -- Japanese spelling

Part of the Following Groups

• EA FIFA series
• EA Sports games
• FIFA World Cup licensees
• PlayStation Platinum Range releases
• PlayStation the Best series

User Reviews

EA Sports' swan song to the American Saturn and Sega	SEGA Saturn	Fake Spam (94)
FIFA 98 is THE best FIFA game out there.	Windows	Diamond Titan (74)
Soccer is LAME.	Windows	Tomer Gabel (4646)

Critic Reviews

Power Play	Windows	Dec, 1997	91 out of 100	91
Jeuxvideo.com	PlayStation	Jun 09, 2011	18 out of 20	90
HappyPuppy	Nintendo 64	Sep 28, 1999	9 out of 10	90
PC Jeux	Windows	Dec, 1997	89 out of 100	89
PC Player (Germany)	Windows	Dec, 1997	89 out of 100	89
Mega Score	Nintendo 64	Feb, 1998	87 out of 100	87
PC Joker	Windows	Dec, 1997	85 out of 100	85
Nintendo Power Magazine	Nintendo 64	Feb, 1998	8.1 out of 10	81
Adrenaline Vault, The (AVault)	Windows	Jan 01, 1998		80
Total! (Germany)	SNES	Jan, 1998	4 out of 6	40

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Trivia

Cover

The German front cover shows the Andreas Möller. He won the Champions League with Borussia Dortmund and the European Championship with the German national team (both 1996).

Offside

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!

Awards

• Computer Gaming World
  • April 1999 (Issue #177) – Best Sports Game of the Year (together with World Cup 98 and FIFA 99)

Information also contributed by Louis Silva