Sports Illustrated Championship Football & Baseball for SNES

Review #524

Sports Illustrated Championship Football & Baseball

Two turds for the price of one

SNES 1994 Malibu Sports Sports › Football
Sports Illustrated Championship Football & Baseball screenshot for SNES
Screenshot used for review/reference purposes.
2 / 5

Gameplay

FOOTBALL uses isometric view which makes me think of NES Play Action Football. Not a good thing.
Your players all execute the play without you doing anything. If you touch the d-pad they stop but otherwise are a self driving car. Controls are so laggy that it's best to just let them do their thing.
Lots of plays to choose from.
Passing is almost comical since you can only see one player in the PIP window, regardless of how many receivers you've got.
Runs at 5 FPS

BASEBALL
The slowest game of baseball ever. You could make a sandwich in the time it takes the ball to get to the plate.
Hitting the ball is a chore as you may send to be half length. You have to crowd the plate to reach the ball and the hit zone is tiny.
The ball rarely leaves the infield and I've never seen the outfield wall. I assume it's out there somewhere.
The football sim is much better than the baseball side of things

1 / 5

Level Design

FOOTBALL
Barest of bones in terms of play modes. Exhibition and Season but no stats keeping

1 / 5

Theme

Generic. No NFL or MLB license
No personality other than Gifs that play after scoring plays in football.
Incredibly boring games of both sports

2 / 5

Art Style

Has a dirty, Genesis style of art. Very pixelated graphics and very brown, flat artwork

1 / 5

Audio

Just white noise in both sports. Almost devoid of any other sounds. No personality whatsoever

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