By Kieron Gillen on June 2nd, 2010 at 4:00 pm.
New Star Games – who foot-to-ball fans will know from New Star Soccer – are releasing their new foot-to-ball game today. It’s not out at the time of writing. Will it be out by the time of posting? Only clicking will tell. It’s basically a world-cup-themed 2D game, aiming to be between Sensible Soccer and their original Sensational Soccer. He explains more on his blog, though fails to give us a video. VIDEO! WE NEED VIDEO! Anyway – the only way you’re going to find out whether it clicks or not is playing the bally thing. Luckily, there’s a demo available to allow such things. Go get the PC one here. Alternatively, get Macintosh-PC demo here. Oh – you can also get the full version of the original Sensational Soccer if you sign up to the New Star Games mailing list. This must be what they call a Free Kick (Fired – Ed).
02/06/2010 at 16:09 Heliocentric says:
The eurogamer overseer ed is intolerant of foot to ball jokes.
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02/06/2010 at 16:13 Schaulustiger says:
This sadly reminds me that there is no FIFA World Cup Edition on the PC this time. I always had a blast playing through the tourney with all the official licenses and stuff. I easily got my 50€ out of every World Cup game, but EA doesn’t want my fanboy money anymore.
02/06/2010 at 16:59 Paul B says:
I suppose there’s always Fifa Online, if you want to take England to the final (then lose on penalties) but it’s not he same as proper Fifa.
02/06/2010 at 17:20 Schaulustiger says:
Yep, I somehow dislike FIFA Online. it just doesn’t feel like a proper FIFA game.
What’s funny: Since I’m from Germany I took my team to the finals in the last World Cup game. I faced England and – guess what? – won the penalty shoot-out. Hooray for realism!
03/06/2010 at 14:20 bill says:
Lose on penalties in the final?
They won’t even make it past Japan again, unless the Japanese decide to spot them two goals out of sympathy again.
02/06/2010 at 16:16 Mario Figueiredo says:
>> (Fired – Ed)
You damn right! And I’m also filling a lawsuit for inappropriate use 20KB of my bandwidth with that image plus the use of 150 words.
02/06/2010 at 16:44 Ysellian says:
There is the Fifa Online beta which features the world cup.
02/06/2010 at 21:32 OctaneHugo says:
The Fifa Online Beta has a World Cup mode.
03/06/2010 at 07:48 sfury says:
A World Cup mode the FIFA Online Beta has.
04/06/2010 at 06:38 TeeJay says:
1 cup 2 goals
02/06/2010 at 16:48 Peter Radiator Full Pig says:
I read recently that foot-to-ball games werent going to be convered!
Eurogamer has changed you guys.
02/06/2010 at 17:09 siread says:
The video is now up and the game is on sale. Cheers RPS. :)
02/06/2010 at 17:50 sudogamer says:
a shocking sensible soccer imitation. . . Player should never ever have a turning circle! It’s like driving lots of small cars. .!
Zsnes 1.42 (the one with net play) + “Sensible Soccer – International Edition ROM” = half-way-line outrageous Bergkamp goal-scoring-awesomeness.
03/06/2010 at 08:55 Ginger Yellow says:
“Player should never ever have a turning circle! ”
Clearly you don’t remember Dino Dini’s Kick Off 2. It had insane turning circles.
02/06/2010 at 18:00 Divebomb says:
love the game, siread. would it be possible to add a button for changing man focus manually. the automatic thing is a bit hard when defending. as the midfield players or forwards are usually always closer to the attacker and the attacker gains a lot of ground before the focus go to the closest defender
02/06/2010 at 21:26 Spatvark says:
This has potential, but it’s no Sensi-beater yet. Crappy player selection, insensitive controls somewhat dubious AI (need to try it on hard though, to see if that was just difficulty-based), and the fact that the sprites just aren’t as cute. I’ll probably give it another try later though, since it was still fairly enjoyable, but I honestly can’t see myself spending money on this.
Myself, I always played Sensible Soccer with a joystick, for maximum aftertouch awesomeness control, and I’d sit down and play the entire European Superleague in one day (38 games against the top EU clubs), noting down who scored my goals on a piece of paper Most I managed with one player was 84 goals in a season, as it were. God I love Sensi…
03/06/2010 at 11:34 Jonh says:
It has nothing to do with sensible soccer, besides why the hell we have to imitate SS – be original! It has no charm, annoying turning circles, sprites are not cute, strange ball physics. However this game has a wonderful option… uninstall.
03/06/2010 at 11:20 itsallcrap says:
It does look an awful lot like Sensi.
Also, the way the ball moves reminds me of World Cup USA ’94 on the Game Boy. Of course, I realise I am perhaps the only person anywhere that remembers that game.
03/06/2010 at 15:19 terry says:
I’m stuck at work so I haven’t tried this yet, but I’d like to pipe up for the New Star Soccer games. There’s a certain charm about being able to get your footballer drunk as hell before a match or gamble his life’s earnings away on a whim. Brings back memories of Footballer Of The Year on the humble ZX for me (winning strategy: spend everything on goal cards, gamble wages, repeat).
03/06/2010 at 21:59 RedFred says:
Man am I the only one who thought Sensi was damn hard?
I may have scored one goal the entire time I have played that game.
04/06/2010 at 02:44 caesarbear says:
Yuck. This is the same game as the old New Star Soccer. It’s shit compared to Sensible.