FIFA: Road to World Cup 98 is a football video game developed by EA Canada and released by EA Sports in 1997. It is the fifth game in the FIFA series and ...
| Date | 2025-05-14 06:12:24 |
| Filesize | 228.00 MB |
| Visits | 42 |
EA Sports. The most successful of PC sports gaming companies had a terrible last year. I am not referring to their sales figures, but rather to the quality of their games. Their 97 line had a common problem- too much looks, too little play. 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. But one has to admit- FIFA 97 looked good. Very, very good, in fact.
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. Especially as they were saying the same things all over again- improved graphics, improved looks, improved feeling of being there... it all sounded a bit too familiar. Then, slowly but surely, my worries were set aside. First it was NHL 98, a fabulous looker, obviously, and incidentally the best PC arcade Hockey game ever. 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. Need I say that it looks amazing too?
But as the days went by, and FIFA 98 was growing near, those worries crept slowly back in. We all know that football, not the American version, is one of the hardest sports games to put on a PC screen. 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. Sega World Wide Soccer was, and I quote myself, "the best 3D football game for the PC". While it is true that it is indeed a good game, it certainly isn't on par with games like Links LS or Nascar Racing 2 when compared to the sport they are representing.
