In my top 5 BEST games for the Amiga!
It wasn't the excellent graphics or the brutal thumping, ice cream shouting, crowd cheering sound that made this game, but the very addictive and faultless gameplay.
If i can remember correctly your team consisted of 9 average joes, which during the season would improve individually depending on how they played in each match.
The changes were very precise and for example, when your one certain goalscorer who was improving lots receives a pass, the satisfaction of the speed he would run and throw the ball was awesome. It just made the moment of playing the game sheer bliss.
But thats not the only thing which would satisfy!
When you could buy more powerful and better players, who some were very mean and cool looking, when you give that certain person the ball....wow..now the game got really interesting.
The rival teams in your league were all different in stats and when you first play with your 'average joe' side against one of the big boys, you soon knew about it.
Injuries would come thick and fast and you would get thumped by a huge score line, which again makes the game so awesome, when eventually, with an improved team and a few star players brought in, the tides of team supremacy slowly starts to show.
Your 'average joes' will still get battered and bruised, but your star players will just do enough to keep the challenge going nicely.
Theirs so much more i could write about this game, but that would just turn into a novel. Trust me when i say this, their are not many games if any nowadays that have the superb gameplay, with tough team choices, with such skill's to master when playing (like trying to get score bonus's and using the arena for tactical advantages), with the EASE of control and play of a game and just pure addictive gameplay which makes this one of MY classic games of the amiga generation!
Right up there with Paradroid '90, Sensible Soccer, Carrier Command and Kick Off!