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- From: kcci1@central.susx.ac.uk (Alan L.M. Buxey)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.reviews
- Subject: MINI-REVIEW: John Barnes European Football CD32
- Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.games
- Date: 26 Apr 1994 18:33:12 GMT
- Organization: The Amiga Online Review Column - ed. Daniel Barrett
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- Keywords: game, sports, soccer, football, CD-ROM, commercial
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- John Barnes European Football
- Software Company: Krisalis Software/Buzz cheapo label
- Address: Teque House, Masons Yard, Downs Row, Moorgate,
- Rotherham, United Kingdom
- Phone: (0709) 372 290
- Fax: ?
- E-Mail: ?
- List Price: 14.99
-
- Review by Jukka O. Kauppinen (Finland) and Alan Buxey (England)
-
- All prices are quoted in English Pounds.
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- For any Americans out there, this is a game that plays English
- football; i.e., soccer.
-
- Jukka
- ----- (rev.2)
-
- Puke flows when you play this game. It is just terrible. It's ages
- since I've seen football game so full of bullshit. It looks bad, sounds a
- bit good, and plays awfully. HOW anybody can make anything THIS BAD
- any more??? No way I would touch this again.
-
- Unlike Alan, I rather liked the old great football games. I always
- remember how great C='s module-football game for C64 was, but that was
- normal technical and graphical achievement of the day. This game drags a
- couple years BEHIND ALL standards! It is not great for even this price.
-
- Alan
- ----(rev. 2)
-
- Is this a joke? Come on, April Fools Day was more than a few weeks
- ago! Seriously, I had the same vomiting problems as Jukka when I played
- this title. It really is CRAP. The graphics take me back to the old soccer
- days (the days we'd rather forget now - hey! who said I didn't like Matchday
- 2 on my Spectrum?? ;))
-
- The graphics don't even seem to use 8 colours, let alone 32! The
- sound is the only saving grace here - some nice chants and effects, but the
- control is awful! If you WANT a soccer game, but already have Sensi or don't
- like Sensi, then wait for Krisalis to release "Man. Utd. Prem. Leag. Champ."
- as it will be much better - even Easy AMOS experts can beat this!
-
- RATINGS
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- Jukka Alan
-
- Graphics: ** *
- Sound: *** ***
- Playability: ** **
- Lastability: * *
- Overall: ** **
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