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Sensible Soccer
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The basis for Sensible Soccer was MicroProse Soccer, released for home computers in 1988. It was designed by Jon Hare and programmed by Chris Yates, who adapted the gameplay format of arcade video game Tehkan World Cup (1985) while adding their own elements to create MicroProse Soccer. Hare and Yates went on to use MicroProse Soccer as the basis for Sensible Soccer in 1992, making further improvements to the gameplay.MAGAZINE, The Sensible Game: Jon Hare Reveals the Drive and Inspiration â Direct and Indirect â For the Beautiful Game That Became Sensible Soccer, (GamesTM, Retro: The Ultimate Retro Companion from GamesTM), 2010, 3, Imagine Publishing, United Kingdom, 224-231 (228-9),weblink JOURNAL, Developer Lookback: Being Sensible, Retro Gamer, January 2007, 33, 36â41,weblink Sensible World of Soccer, commonly referred to as SWOS, was released in 1994. The game was almost published by Virgin Games, but they insisted on it being called Virgin Soccer.Jon Hare interview at gamersnet.nl It became a first in video games when it attempted to encompass the entire professional footballing world into one game. Featuring many divisions in many countries around the globe, it featured a twenty season career mode which allowed players to manage and play as thousands of different clubs from across the globe, many of which were very obscure.Next generation
The series would make a return in the summer of 2006, with a full 3D title released for Windows, PlayStation 2 and Xbox.WEB,weblink A Sensible Decision, Eurogamer, November 2005, 1 November 2005, 16 October 2007,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20071016082230weblink">weblink dead, Codemasters, the holders of the licence, released the game across all PAL territories, with the design capabilities overseen by Jon Hare, the original designer of the game. Sensible Soccer 2006 was released on 9 June 2006.Xbox Live Arcade
In 2006, Codemasters announced a new version of Sensible World of Soccer, developed by Kuju Sheffield, for the Xbox 360 to be released in summer 2007 on Xbox Live Arcade. It features both the classic "retro" visuals of the original SWOS, as well as new improved high definition graphics, and retains the exact gameplay of the 96/97 version of Sensible World of Soccer for the Amiga, along with the music from Sensible Soccer 2006.Sensible World of Soccer 96/97 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071017104246weblink |date=17 October 2007}} at Eurogamer.net Due to problems with the game's network performance, the release was delayed in order for "significant proportions" of the network code to be rewritten.Codemasters talks Sensible Soccer XBLA{{Dead link|date=November 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}} at Eurogamer.net After missing several previous release dates, the game appeared on Xbox Live Arcade on 19 December 2007Gamespot â XBLA getting Sensible 19 Dec.{{Dead link|date=November 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}} but was quickly pulled. A statement from Microsoft confirmed that an incorrect version of the game had been made available, in which online play was not possible.SWOS pulled from Live Arcade{{Dead link|date=November 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}, Eurogamer, 19 December 2007. The fixed version of the game was released two days later on 21 December. The Windows version was never released.Development
Reflecting Sensible Software's devil-may-care approach to game design, the developers decided to make Sensible Soccer after playing around with sprites from Mega-Lo-Mania and deciding to use them in a football game.WEB,weblink 7 December 2016, Sensible Software 1986-1999 book review â the rise and fall of a British giant, Jenkins, David, 9 October 2013, Metro (British newspaper), Metro,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20131009162217weblink">weblink 9 October 2013, live,Games in the series
All versions developed by Sensible Software except as stated.{| class="wikitable"Coverdisk games
- At Christmas 1993, a free Sensible Software minigame was included on an Amiga Format cover disk. Called Cannon Soccer, it was essentially two bonus levels of Cannon Fodder (one of Sensible Software's other titles) in which the soldiers fought hordes of Sensible Soccer players in a snowy landscape.Cannon Soccer at Hall of Light
- On the Amiga Power Coverdisk 21 one of the demos was Sensible Soccer: England vs Germany, also known as Sensible Soccer Meets Bulldog Blighty.Sensible Soccer: England vs Germany at Hall of Light This featured a mode of play that involved replacing players with soldiers from Cannon Fodder, and the ball with a hand grenade. The grenade would randomly begin to flash eventually exploding, killing any nearby players.
- Sensible World of Moon Soccer a free covermount disk included with an issue of Amiga Action magazine in the UK. Play as Moon United, featured low gravity, a cratered pitch and hordes of alien players to trade.Sensible World of Moon Soccer at Hall of Light
- The developers released a humorous spin-off called unSensible Soccer which consisted of apples vs. oranges instead of men. It was released as a free covermount disk with Amiga Action in March 1993.Unsensible Soccer at Hall of Light
Reception
Computer Gaming World in June 1994 wrote that "in the debate over the best football action/tactical game, there is no doubt that Sensible is in everyone's top three, no matter what format ... The game is fast and responsive ... a class act". The magazine added that the "Gameboy version is one of the best games" on the handheld.MAGAZINE, Rigby
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Awards
From the time of its release, Mega placed the game at #1 in their Top 50 Mega Drive Games of All Time.Mega Magazine, p74, Maverick Magazines, Issue 26, November 1994 The Mega CD version of the game was #2 in their Top 10 Mega CD Games of All Time in the same issue.Sensible World of Soccer 1995/96 received review scores of 96% from both Amiga Power and Amiga Format, the joint highest mark given for any game by either magazine.Amiga Power top scoring reviews at Amiga Magazine RackAmiga Format top scoring reviews at Amiga Magazine Rack In 2017, Gamesradar ranked the game 50th on their "Best Sega Genesis/Mega Drive games of all time"WEB, Loveridge, Sam, 2017-06-21, Best Sega Genesis/Mega Drive games of all time,weblink 2022-02-18, gamesradar, en, In 1996, Gamesmaster rated the Mega Drive version 7th in their "The Gamesmaster Mega Drive Top 10".JOURNAL, July 1996, The GamesMaster Mega Drive Top 10,weblink GamesMaster, 44, 74, In 1995, Total! listed Sensible Soccer 7 on their "Top 100 SNES Games". They praised the gameplay writing: "Sensible Soccer has the speed and fluidity to perfectly replicate all the speed, excitement and strategic complexity of the real game".JOURNAL, July 1995, Top 100 SNES Games,weblink Total!, 43, 39, In March 2007, The New York Times reported that Sensible World of Soccer (1994) was named to a list of the ten most important video games of all time by Stanford Professor Henry Lowood and the four members of his committee â the game designers Warren Spector and Steve Meretzky; Matteo Bittanti, an academic researcher; and Christopher Grant, a game journalist.NEWS,weblink Is That Just Some Game? No, It's a Cultural Artifact, The New York Times, Heather, Chaplin, 12 March 2007, 1 November 2013, This list was also announced at the 2007 Game Developers Conference.Sensible World of Soccer (1994) received recognition as one of the Ten Most Important Video Games of All Time, the so-called game canon, by the History of Science and Technology Collections at Stanford University.WEB,weblink 10 most important video games of all time, as judged by 2 designers, 2 academics, and 1 lowly blogger, Ransom-Wiley, James, Joystiq,Legacy
- Sensible Soccers, a Portuguese chillwave band named themselves after the game{{fact|date=May 2024}}
See also
References
{{reflist}}- MAGAZINE, The Making of Sensible Soccer, Grannell, Craig, October 2007, Retro Gamer, 43, 88â91,
External links
- {{IMDb title| 0974635}}
- The Making of Sensible Soccer: Jon Hare and the Sensible team on the creation of their football opus
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