Sensible Soccer: European Champions

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Description

Sensible Soccer: European Champions is a soccer (football) game similar to the Kick Off series. The graphical view is from a distance overhead, making the players small on screen, but allowing player to view around half the pitch.

The basic control system involves loose control, making running with the ball (‘dribbling’ in football parlance) a skill to master, and putting the emphasis on one-touch passing, which can be easily performed by tapping the fire button.

The game features customisable league and cup competitions as well as pre-set ones including the 1992 European Championships. There are 168 teams in total, 40 European nations, the 64 top club sides, and 64 custom teams with names ranging from self-indulgent to comical, and their details are fully editable. At club and country level, each team has three star players who are more gifted that the others.

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Part of the Following Groups

• Sensible Soccer games
• Sensible Sports games

User Reviews

The Greatest Amiga Game Of Them All

Amiga

Martin Smith (81122)

Critic Reviews

Amiga User International	Amiga	Nov, 1992	94 out of 100	94
Datormagazin	Amiga	Aug 13, 1992	92 out of 100	92
Zero	Amiga	Aug, 1992	92 out of 100	92
Amiga Computing	Amiga	Sep, 1992	92 out of 100	92
ST Format	Atari ST	Oct, 1992	91 out of 100	91
Amiga Format	Amiga	Jul, 1992	91 out of 100	91
Power Play	Amiga	Jun, 1992	85 out of 100	85
Amiga Games	Amiga	Oct, 1992	83 out of 100	83
Play Time	Amiga	Sep, 1992	83 out of 100	83
Amiga Joker	Amiga	Sep, 1992	81 out of 100	81

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Trivia

Graphics

Sensible Software's small-man visual style became their trademark in the early 90s. It's first use was in an uncompleted Sensible Olympics game which was due for release to tie in with the 1992 games.

Kick Off

Although most people seemed to like either Sensible Soccer or Kick Off, Sensible's boss Jon Hare was a major fan of Kick Off, commenting in 1991 that he wished he'd written it "because it sold well, and deserved to sell well".

Awards

• Amiga Joker
  • Issue 02/1993 – Readers' Special Price for 1992
• Power Play
  • Issue 02/1993 – #3 Best Sports/Racing Game in 1992 (Amiga version)
• Retro Gamer
  • October 2004 (Issue #9) – #8 Best Game Of All Time (Readers' Vote)

Related Web Sites

• The Making of Sensible Soccer (Read-Only Memory, 2015) (Interview with Tony Beckwith and Jon Hare about the creation of Sensible Soccer. Interview made by Gary Penn with illustrations by Craig Stevenson.)