The speed burst button has been carried over from the psx version, along with a new feature (lifted from Striker) for dead-ball kicks which offers more control over the ball. True, the game runs a lot better, but you'll need a fast Pentium for a satisfactory result in hi-res mode. More likely to save a low shot (whereas previously they were so busy being beautifully animated that the ball hit the net before they finished their stylish dive), but they still let soft goals in (see Artificial Stupidity). In essence, Euro 96 is the same game as Actua Soccer. This latest pc version is now the third version of the game. But while the goalkeepers had also benefited from some tweaks, they still showed a worrying lack of concern for keeping a clean sheet, and often contributed to their own downfall (suspicions still abound about the involvement of a Far Eastern betting syndicate) and many of the basic gameplay elements remained flawed. There was a new 'speed burst' button so that you could overtake and tackle the ball-carrier by pushing him out of the way instead of chopping his legs off at the knee.
Then came the slightly improved psx version: you could now select the player nearest the ball yourself, rather than have the computer switch control just as you were trying to make a tackle. Unfortunately we went for the former approach.) (The alternative was to give it say, 80: it depends on whether you score things according to genre, or with some kind of absolute across all genres in mind. In the end it was awarded 92, but we did try and highlight what was wrong with it. Much debate arose in the office when it came down to scoring the review: opinions differed, because while it was clearly the best pc football game available (which wasn't actually a massive endorsement), it still had problems.
But beneath this attractiveness lay a dark soul. The first pc version was very attractive, boasting fancy, swirly camerawork and motion-captured players, and so on. Despite this, we play it nearly every day. Once we've all had a go at standing up and Jr introducing ourselves, we then talk through the distressing things that happened the last time we played it. It could be extremely good, but there are so many things wrong with the game that there is a compulsory counselling session held every morning in the PC in which we sit around holding hands and drinking herb tea. We Have A Love-Hate relationship with Actua Soccer.
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