The game features 76 national teams in total, plus a team called EA All Stars. League consists of eight teams who contest a double round-robin tournament. Playoffs mode takes the same form, but skips the group games and starts at the first knockout game.
Tournament mode resembles the format of the FIFA World Cup, UEFA European Championship, with the player controlling a team of their choice through a series of matches, starting with three group games with the possibility of progressing to four further games in a knockout format. Exhibition engages the player in a single match. The remaining footballers are controlled by the computer.įour modes of play - Exhibition, Tournament, Playoffs, and League - are available. The players can choose to control a footballer on the same team or on opposing teams. The game allows up to four human players at the same time, each controlling a different footballer. The player controls one of the eleven footballers on their team at a time, with the ability to switch players on command. The game utilises an isometric viewpoint, unlike other football games at the time such as Tehkan World Cup or Sensible Soccer which utilised a bird's-eye view or Kick Off which used a top-down view. In particular, the game is based on international matches. Gameplay showing the isometric viewpoint, the way the view moves to keep the ball on-screen and footballer animation.įIFA International Soccer simulates the sport of association football.
It later served as a pack-in game for the Goldstar 3DO, and led to a sequel, FIFA Soccer 95. The game sold well, with the Mega Drive version becoming the best-selling home video game of 1993 in the United Kingdom. The 3DO version added multiple camera views and more detailed graphics than other versions. The speed the game ran at and issues with the response to the player's input were seen as the game's primary faults.
The game was also positively received by critics upon release critics lauded the detail and animation of the footballers in the game, the crowd sound effects, and the overall presentation. The original Mega Drive version was commercially successful in Europe, becoming the best-selling home 1993 in the United Kingdom. The game was released for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis console in December 1993 and ported to numerous other systems in 1994.
Mega Drive/Genesis, 3DO, Amiga, MS-DOS, Game Boy, Game Gear, Sega CD, Master System, Super NESįIFA International Soccer is a 1993 association football video game developed by EA Canada's Extended Play Productions team and published by Electronic Arts. European cover art with David Platt and Piotr Świerczewski
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