Sega World Wide Soccer was, and I quote myself, 'the best 3D football game for the PC'. We know that, not only by any objective criterion, like the slow nature of the sport, but also by the fact that good PC soccer games are so impossible to find.

We all know that football, not the American version, is one of the hardest sports games to put on a PC screen.

Need I say that it looks amazing too?īut as the days went by, and FIFA 98 was growing near, those worries crept slowly back in. Then came one of the loveliest surprises of the season, NBA Live 98, that, while still needing a patch to reach its full potential, is one heck of a fun game to play. First it was NHL 98, a fabulous looker, obviously, and incidentally the best PC arcade Hockey game ever. Then, slowly but surely, my worries were set aside. Especially as they were saying the same things all over again- improved graphics, improved looks, improved feeling of being there. With most of the other EA Sports games suffering from this same problem in 1997, I was a little cautious when the 98 ones appeared.

But one has to admit- FIFA 97 looked good. One game that went disastrously wrong in this regard was FIFA 97 - it is now one year later, and I STILL can't make heads or tails of its, err, intricate control system. Their 97 line had a common problem- too much looks, too little play. I am not referring to their sales figures, but rather to the quality of their games.

The most successful of PC sports gaming companies had a terrible last year.

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