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Actua Soccer (VR Soccer in North America) is a sports video game developed and published by Gremlin Interactive for MS-DOS, PlayStation, and Sega Saturn.

Not to be confused with VR Soccer.
Actua Soccer
Developer(s)Gremlin Interactive
Publisher(s)
  • EU: Gremlin Interactive
  • NA: Interplay Productions
SeriesActua Sports
Platform(s)MS-DOS, PlayStation, Saturn
ReleaseMS-DOS
  • EU: 1995
  • NA: 31 March 1996
PlayStation
  • EU: March 1996
  • NA: 31 October 1996
Saturn
  • EU: 1996
  • NA: 30 November 1996
Genre(s)Sports
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

Gameplay


Actua Soccer contains only 44 national teams, each containing 22 players.[1] However, in 1996 a new version containing clubs was released: Actua Soccer: Club Edition. It contained 20 Premier League teams from the 1996/1997 season, with players displayed in "Panini-style" photos and with individualised statistics.[1][2] Commentary was provided by Barry Davies.[3]


Development


This was the first sports video game to include a full 3D graphics engine. Sheffield-based Gremlin used Sheffield Wednesday's Andy Sinton, Chris Woods and Graham Hyde as motion capture models.[4][1]

The Club Edition was developed using the engine used for Gremlin's previous football title UEFA Euro 96 England.[3]


Reception


By 1997, the game had sold more over a million copies for MS-DOS and PlayStation around the world.[6]

In 1996, GamesMaster ranked Actua Soccer 85th on their "Top 100 Games of All Time."[7]

Reviewing the Club Edition Saturn Power's Dean Mortlock gave a score of 65/100, criticising "sloppy controls and poor artificial intelligence". He concluded, "Sorry Gremlin but if Worldwide Soccer is one of the Manchester Uniteds of this world, then Actua Soccer Club Edition is more like a Swindon Town".[3] Sega Saturn Magazine's Lee Nutter argued that "very little has been changed from its Euro 96 incarnation" and that it lacked "the speed, playability and overall polish of Sega's seemingly untouchable Worldwide Soccer '97".[8]


References


  1. Langshaw, Mark (27 September 2014). "Actua Soccer retrospective: Put one past the mighty FIFA in 1995". Digital Spy. London: Hearst UK. Retrieved 4 November 2019.
  2. "News: More Actua Sports". PlayStation Official Magazine – UK. Future Publishing (15): 11. January 1997.
  3. Mortlock, Dean (28 May 1997). "Review: Actua Soccer Club Edition". Saturn Power. Future Publishing (2): 70–71.
  4. Parada, Jaime (23 July 2007). "Actua Soccer (1995)". Insert Coin (in Spanish). Retrieved 4 November 2019.
  5. Lisa Karen Savignano. "VR Soccer (Macintosh) Review". Allgame. Archived from the original on November 16, 2014. Retrieved July 5, 2022.
  6. Webster, Garrick (June 22, 1997). "UK games without frontiers". The Observer. Retrieved August 15, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. "Top 100 Games of All Time" (PDF). GamesMaster (44): 75. July 1996.
  8. Nutter, Lee (11 June 1997). "Review: Actua Soccer Club Edition". Sega Saturn Magazine. EMAP (21): 68–69.




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