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For most football games are about strategy and skill and not just a case of tearing down a field and blasting the ball as hard as you can when you get to the other end hoping that it would go in.
Although back in the Sega Mater system's day's football games used to be just a case of selecting your team and tearing down a field. Thanks to modern technology we can now create the most realistic footy games on the planet.
You can select from dozens of teams and stadiums, you can choose your starting line up, your formation you can even select the weather conditions. You can also make in game changes and substitutions, which you could never have dreamed of doing when the Mater system or the SNES were around.
In some games you can buy the players you want or of course you can sell them too. In games like Football manager 2001 you can manage your whole team.
Whenever technology improves football games will also improve.
I love football games but these days there all much the same because football is football.
The only things that really change in football games are the graphics and everything else stays more or less the same.
Wouldn't it be nice though if a twist was added to make football games more interesting?
Maybe Namco and EA could get together and make a game along the lines of a Mario Tennis Speedball cross.
Perhaps they could take the bribing the referee feature from Speedball and perhaps the power shot from Mario Tennis.
It would make for some very interesting gaming.
After all they gave tennis a twist with Mario Tennis and they did it with hockey so why not football?
They could also put together some unusual teams using characters from different games.
I doubt this will ever happen though because football is a game like no other.
So I guess we'll just keep on tapping our buttons and twiddling our analogue sticks until something new and exciting comes along!
Although back in the Sega Mater system's day's football games used to be just a case of selecting your team and tearing down a field. Thanks to modern technology we can now create the most realistic footy games on the planet.
You can select from dozens of teams and stadiums, you can choose your starting line up, your formation you can even select the weather conditions. You can also make in game changes and substitutions, which you could never have dreamed of doing when the Mater system or the SNES were around.
In some games you can buy the players you want or of course you can sell them too. In games like Football manager 2001 you can manage your whole team.
Whenever technology improves football games will also improve.
I love football games but these days there all much the same because football is football.
The only things that really change in football games are the graphics and everything else stays more or less the same.
Wouldn't it be nice though if a twist was added to make football games more interesting?
Maybe Namco and EA could get together and make a game along the lines of a Mario Tennis Speedball cross.
Perhaps they could take the bribing the referee feature from Speedball and perhaps the power shot from Mario Tennis.
It would make for some very interesting gaming.
After all they gave tennis a twist with Mario Tennis and they did it with hockey so why not football?
They could also put together some unusual teams using characters from different games.
I doubt this will ever happen though because football is a game like no other.
So I guess we'll just keep on tapping our buttons and twiddling our analogue sticks until something new and exciting comes along!
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Has anyone here ever played about computer-football game that Pro Evo on the PS2? That is simply the most greatest football game there ever was! I'm going to buy a PS2 just for it.
I think that's This Is Football. And for Meka's benefit, Death Tunnel is a game of headers and volleys, but when a certain amount of goals are scored against the keeper (depending on how much you like him), he must run through a tunnel of death. This involves the players (and some people who are in the nearby vicinity) lining up against the fence/wall, and making the hapless keeper run through the gap inbetween them and the fence/wall.
Sometimes you got the luxury of choosing punch, kick or spit, but it never made any difference - you alwys used to come out the other side with dead arms, dead legs and a huge greenie on your blazer. Ah, school days...
Sometimes you got the luxury of choosing punch, kick or spit, but it never made any difference - you alwys used to come out the other side with dead arms, dead legs and a huge greenie on your blazer. Ah, school days...
Mr.Snuggly wrote:
>playground game modes would rule. Take note Konami.
Doesn't Pro Evo give you that? Damn, can't remember who told me or what game it was (think it was pro evo though) but you used jumpers for goals and stuff.
Never played it though so they may have been having a giraffe.
>playground game modes would rule. Take note Konami.
Doesn't Pro Evo give you that? Damn, can't remember who told me or what game it was (think it was pro evo though) but you used jumpers for goals and stuff.
Never played it though so they may have been having a giraffe.
Well I enjoyed playing football at school although I hated being a defender!
Yeah brings back memories
Playground football: Where keepers can run down to the half way line before taking their kick!
Fouls and Handballs only count if the popular kids want them too.
That was what it was like in Primary school anyway...
Fouls and Handballs only count if the popular kids want them too.
That was what it was like in Primary school anyway...
"Death Tunnel"
Sorry, I don't know that one. Could you explain the rules?
(And it should definitely be called the 'Playground' option)
Sorry, I don't know that one. Could you explain the rules?
(And it should definitely be called the 'Playground' option)
I've always thought they should do that in footy games, have playground options. A game of headers and volleys would work wonders, as would Wembley (or Wembley doubles) and I feel Death Tunnel would work especially well. Seriously, this is a serious point - playground game modes would rule. Take note Konami.
I reckon they need 'Wembley' and 'Heads and Volleys' options.
And arcades that let you play as a team - each gamer plays as a different player on the pitch. You work together, or you lose.
And arcades that let you play as a team - each gamer plays as a different player on the pitch. You work together, or you lose.
Gangsta Hamsta wrote:
> jimmy duck wrote:
> Most of which are gak.
Let me guess... you have
> either never played Pro Evo/ISS pro evolution 2 or you hate football.
(or you
> just want to argue)
Good topic Dogsnads
Thanks. I wonder if it'll win GAD!
*Askes $lik when his next win will be*
> jimmy duck wrote:
> Most of which are gak.
Let me guess... you have
> either never played Pro Evo/ISS pro evolution 2 or you hate football.
(or you
> just want to argue)
Good topic Dogsnads
Thanks. I wonder if it'll win GAD!
*Askes $lik when his next win will be*
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