This was probably my first football game ever.
This was probably my first football game ever. I think I might've seen one Sega Genesis football game before this, but I never really played that one.
It's still fun to play, even though it lacks a lot of features I've gotten used to over the years. For example, in most football games you can just hold down a button, and your guy will automatically run towards the ball and try to grab it. Here, you have to manually run up to the enemy players and press a grab button, which, if you don't time it right, will fail.
In addition, I'm used to a map like in PES games, but here all you get is some arrows under your selected player, showing the nearby players.
The biggest downside, I'd say, is that the controls are not remappable. And by default the same button is used for grabbing the ball and trying to score a goal. So you will often be frantically trying to grab the ball from the enemy, only to immediately kick it far away by accident.
In terms of game modes and customization, it's really bare bones as well. Practially all you can do is either play a match (where you do get stadium, time and weather settings) or play a tournament.
There is only one song, which plays in the menu, and it's alright. The sounds in general are pretty okay. I kinda liked the graphics too, including the artstyle,
Overall, pretty decent, but there's literally no reason to favor it over PES or FIFA.