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After the
massive success of the original Kick Off a sequel was unavoidable. Kick
Off II takes the aspects of the original and expands and polishes them.
If you like the overhead arcadey style of football game, then you'll love
this, it's better than the overated Sensible Soccer, though it maybe isn't
quite as good as the excellent Team. I'll admit to prefering the horizontal
scrolling football games like Manchester 'spit' United Europe and International
Soccer to this but then that's just me.
Kick Off is somewhat bland graphically and suffers from the occasional
glitch. The upside of this is the raw speed. Playability is good, though
unfortuantly one of my pet hates of the sixteen bit soccer world occurs,
the ball that isn't stuck to the feet of the players feature (i.e. if
you should be so petulant as to attempt a turn while running with the
ball then it will keep on going in the direction you were running in,
normally to the feet of the player you were trying to avoid). I must say
I hate this, it really takes away something that would hook the beginner.
Kick Off suffers from the normal 'one fire button = hideously over complicated
system of control', but then most football games on the ST do unfortuantly,
and at least its not as harsh as Man Utd Europe's kick it in a certain
direction and you'll get a pathetically weak pass, when you want a shot.
The usual features of football games are available including 'design a
kit' and various cup matches.
So better than the original then, but not by a very large margin. Not
that that's bad though.
Zogging Hell Rating: 82%
Cheats
Keep pressing 'r' when you take a penalty and this will show you where the player is going to kick the ball!
