Saturday, August 10, 2024

Zico Soccer for SFC


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Zico Soccer

RTS soccer


Genre: sports - soccer

Publisher: Electronic Arts Victor

Year: 1994

System: SFC


Gameplay Score: 0

Gameplay Notes:

This is ostensibly a simulation game, but rather than picking strategies or doing anything like a turn-based game, this one has you using a cursor to play some sort of RTS gameplay. Whoever has the ball obeys your command (more on that later) and will otherwise do absolutely nothing. So yeah, your job is to micromange the guy with the ball using a mouse cursor. Instead of, yaknow, micromanaging the guy with the ball using the d-pad like every other normal soccer video game. This would all be tolerable if pressing buttons actually did something but alas that isn't the case. It's impossible to make your guy do what you want to. It's truly awful.


Level Design Score: 1

Level Design Notes:

Fine, it's got the modes, but the gameplay is so awful that I can't give it any credit here. If there was some configuration to change the controls then fine, but this is terrible.


Theme Score: 3

Theme Notes:

Looks and feels like a FIFA title with all the licenses to boot.


Art Style Score: 2

Art Style Notes:

Looks ok, but the viewport is so tiny.


Audio Score: 3

Audio Notes:

Some rocking menu tunes


Overall Score: 18

Review ID: 1967



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