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This must me PS1 version? Thanx for uploading. Posted: Apr After a few hours struggle I got it sorted. The game works but I get no sound or music.
Posted: 1-Jan Posted: Dec It seems there are no more than two or three possible comments for about 10 common situations. There’s really not much variety. Then again, how creative are real color commentators? My favorite is when your guy gets caught offside and the Scottish guy says: “He just simply shouldn’t be offside!
This is another area in which I found myself wishing I had more time to get good at this game, because if you’re good you can control a guy without the ball, run for the open area, and force the guy with the ball to pass it to you. True, that’s not AI, but my point is, it takes a little prodding for you to get the guy standing next to you to do the same thing you’d do if you were him and had nobody guarding you. Yelling “move, you stupid dork! Rather, you have to start running, and then he’ll move roughly with you, sometimes to an open area.
You can do all the standard customizations in FIFA ‘ You can pick a strategy for your team, from “Defend Agressively” to “Attack.
Or you could build a team packed with the world’s best center-forwards and run everybody’s pants off. You can control your view of the pitch, your starting lineup There’s a pretty comprehensive WinHelp file included, along with a sixty-something page manual. All that documentation might be a little overblown. And the whole thing’s well presented. But there are still one or two gripes with this verson. For instance, the boards in the five-a-side obscure the action on the nearside of the pitch.
And some of the ratings leave a little to be desired. For example, Corinthians, who’ve won the Brazilian Championship a couple of times in the last six years or so, come out rated lower than Perlis, a team from Malaysia. Perhaps Perlis are unheralded giants of world football. Perhaps not. The database thing works well, the gameplay is more down to you, and the network options up to 20 people can play a game at once will be great if you have that many people to play with.
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However, when running towards a stationary ball close to the touchline, it is all too easy to reach the ball and immediately kick it over the line. Admittedly, this will happen accidentally sometimes but on the whole a player would compensate and trap the ball.
This can be avoided by pushing in the opposite direction to the way you’re running which will hopefully slow you sufficiently to maintain control of the ball. However, this needs split-second timing and no small amount of luck to get right every time.
The control system on the whole often seems sluggish in its responses. The AI is very buggy, in particular CPU players on the attack in your half, will often inexplicably make a long pass back into their defence, often so badly directed that it goes to a member of your team. It is all too easy to play a long ball over the defence for your striker to run onto and score past the goalkeeper. With a little practice the optimum time to shoot becomes apparent and goals being scored eight times out of ten is not uncommon.
Which leads me to perhaps the weakest part of the AI – the goalkeepers. In some ways, particularly shot-stopping, the goalkeepers have improved over FIFA ’96 , but they seem very reluctant to leave their goal-lines to collect long passes forward, or to pick up the ball, indeed I have been tackled by the keeper feet first on many occasions when it would be simpler and more realistic for him to simply dive at my feet and take the ball.
Not only that, but the ball goes through the goalkeeper’s legs far too often. Another bug I noticed was the CPU kicking off after I had scored with one of my players still in his half of the pitch!!! Another problem lies with the shoot control being the slide tackle button when you don’t have the ball, so when one-on-one with the goalkeeper it is all too easy for you to go to shoot, the keeper to take the ball off you and your shoot action being intepreted as a vicious sliding tackle on the keeper, resulting in at least a booking for the unfortunate player and usually a sending off.
FIFA ’97 is ultimately disappointing. Some aspects of the game have been improved over the ’96 edition, but all too many have been changed for the worse or just left as they are.
The trademarked Motion Blending hasn’t achieved its aim of improving response times. I look forward to the updated version, now known as PFA Soccer ’97 which should feature English club sides, improved graphics and gameplay. However, whether we will be blessed with a good PC version we shall have to wait and see. FIFA ’97 has some good new features, like the highlight reel at the end of each half, but still lacks features in its companion titles, like saving replays, a small feature, you may say, but one that is great for showing off your skills to your friends and proving that the outrageous events you have just related to them actually happened.
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Chad Faul. Posted: 1-Aug Excellent art, animation, and graphics. This must me PS1 version? Thanx for uploading. Posted: Apr After a few hours struggle I got it sorted. The game works but I get no sound or music. Posted: 1-Jan The system requirements have gone ballistic accordingly, with the recommended spec being a 16Mb P It runs well on my 16Mb P, but my work P chugged a little at times, although this probably wasn’t helped by the lacklustre 2D performance of the Rendition chipset.
Both DOS and Windows 95 versions are on the CD, the latter of which uses DirectX version 2, although it works fine with version 3, although you’ll need the version of DirectPlay that comes with version 2 of DirectX for multi-player games.
As the case is with many 3D Windows 95 games at the moment, development began too early to realistically allow Direct3D to be used and so that nice Voodoo card you just bought will be of no use, as FIFA ’97 only uses DirectDraw. Reassuringly, the DOS and Windows 95 versions are fairly similar from a performance point of view.
Flipping through the manual and reference card turned up some gems, like “When the ball carrier is in the zone”. Ball carrier??? You can tell that the development team is from the western side of the Atlantic. That line crops up in the five pages!! Most control mechanisms have two modes, Simple and Complex. The delightfully named rainbow kick turned out to be that ever-popular drag the ball back behind you and then flip it up into the air behind you and over your head to land in front – if that description confused you, don’t worry I’m not sure I understand it either!
Suffice it to say, it’s an exhibition move and rarely finds a use, although a German striker did use it against me once in one of the few indoor games I played. Even with six “action” keys you have to press two at once to initiate the aforementioned rainbow kick.
In all seven buttons are required in addition to directional controls in order to avoid some degree of finger twisting. Modem and Network setup are also offered, with Network play you can spread up to 20 controllers across up to eight machines so that every player on the pitch, except the keepers are human-controlled. Another new feature for this year is Transfers, players can now be traded between teams, irrespective of the difference in ability, allowing you to transform your favourite team, however humble, into a side capable of trouncing AC Milan.
The Options menu offers a choice of three game types: Arcade, Action or Simulation. Arcade has the fastest gameplay and no difference in skill levels, whereas Simulation comes closest to the real game, enforcing all the rules, players get tired and have differing abilities. Selecting the match style you want brings up a screen new for ’97, yes I did say “indoor games” earlier, EA have added an indoor soccer option, on a small pitch surrounded by plexiglass walls.
Unfortunately, the camera views all tend to obscure your view of some areas of the pitch and particularly in Arcade mode, it seems more like a game of pinball than football. Not a feature to buy this for. Next up comes the team selection screen, where you can choose from International teams, club sides from eleven countries or if none of those take your fancy, you could create your own custom team. The competitions can at international or club level and you can choose any number of teams to be human controlled.
As ever, with more than one human playing in a particular match you can choose to go head-to-head or team up against the CPU, or even play something like 2 vs 1. Actually, I didn’t read a thing. EA should be commended for attention to the little things in FIFA — the realistic look of the players, for example, goes a long way to creating a sense of realism for this game. The interface is intuitive — thanks, perhaps, to all-important usability tests — and it allows you to quickly and easily move past the setup and into the competition, which is the reason you bought the game in the first place.
Unfortunately, it’s once you actually get into the game, actually begin trying to direct your players in competition against the computer, that FIFA is weakest. That’s due mainly to the fact that there’s just so darn much to keep track of in a soccer game. No PC soccer game has yet achieved complete success in recreating the intricate and varied movements possible in a soccer match in a way that is easily controllable with either a joystick or a keyboard.
Simply for its overall quality, FIFA would be a fine choice if you’re looking for a soccer game to add to your game collection, but be aware that despite its good looks it can be hard to control at times and it offers a steep learning curve that will frustrate many more players than it will please. Browse games Game Portals. FIFA ‘ Install Game. Click the “Install Game” button to initiate the free file download and get compact download launcher.
Locate the executable file in your local folder and begin the launcher to install your desired game. Game review Downloads Screenshots Overview If you’re reading this from the U. Gameplay So much of playability depends on the sport, I think. Graphics These are some good-looking 3D dudes, and — like all soccer players — they know it. Audio The music is pretty cool while you’re in the UI — that typical hard-driving rock sound to get you pumped up — and the crowd noise is good though not awe inspiring like a sold-out Wembley match.
But there are still one or two gripes with this verson. For instance, the boards in the five-a-side obscure the action on the nearside of the pitch. And some of the ratings leave a little to be desired. For example, Corinthians, who’ve won the Brazilian Championship a couple of times in the last six years or so, come out rated lower than Perlis, a team from Malaysia.
Perhaps Perlis are unheralded giants of world football. Perhaps not. The database thing works well, the gameplay is more down to you, and the network options up to 20 people can play a game at once will be great if you have that many people to play with.
Overall, ea are definitely getting there, and this is the best version of the game to date. Browse games Game Portals. FIFA Soccer
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