All Star Soccer

All Star Soccersteps back and take a look at the more humorous sideof soccer with characatured players, off-beat commentary and a chance toexpress yourself on a football pitch without getting off your A.S.S.

Dazzle your opponents with quick-footed silky skills, annoy them with yourelaborate celebrations and dish out your retributions when the ref’s notlooking…

This game gives you the chance to lovingly create your ultimate All Star Squad.Create your players, create your tactics, create your identity and don’t forgetto colour the players’ boots !

Soccer is a funny old game, of two halves, where heroes are made and dreamsare shattered.

Playing the Game

All Star Soccer is an average football game mixed with an excellent arrayof options and facilities to alter every degree of your custom-designed team,as well as the usual throw-ins, penalties and tackles, plus commentaryimpressions from Alistair McGowan.

Controlling your players

The player nearest the ball will be under your control, and as shown in thescreenshot above, he will have a circle around him indicating this. There arecontrol methods for with and without the ball.

Control System with Ball :

Control System without Ball :

Options

One big bonus of this game is the mass of options available to the player,all described below.

Main Menu

From here you can customise your team (see View Squad), go to the GamePlay screen, alter the Game Type (choose between Friendly, Cup, League,Custom Cup and Custom League), load/save settings, go to Sound and Visionscreen, or go to Select Teams screen.

Select Team

Your team is selected by using the directional buttons, and then appointing theteam selected to the player number, or designating it as a computer player,depending on the number of players taking part. The computer will add randomteams to make up the required number of teams for cup competitions.

Once done, you can move to the Fixtures team.

Fixtures

This screen shows the fixtures for the next round of league/cup matches, andthe current league tables. You can save your current position before continuingto the Environment screen.

Environment

Available only when playing a friendly match.

Controls

This screen allows you to change the button configuration of the Controllerand assign which Team/Players are controlled by which Controller. You cancontrol the whole team or any number of players in a team, up to 11. Anycombination of Users can control any combination of players.

Game Play

In this section you can choose whether to have Extra time, No extra time ora Golden Goal shootout, alter the length of the game (5/10/20/30/60/90 minutes),control the strictness of the referee, choose a continous clock or time forstoppages, and toggle the following options on/off : Offside, Bookings, Injuries,Penalties, Fouls, and Violence.

Sound And Vision

On this screen you can toggle replays on or off, and adjust the volume forthe Presenter, Music, Sound Effects, Crowd and Commentator.

One other useful feature is to alter the camera angle of the pitch. A choiceof eight camera angles allows side-on, diagonal, or direct third-personviewpoints of the game. I prefer the latter, and after half-time, instead ofhaving to play down the pitch, you can turn the pitch 180 degrees and continueplaying up the pitch.

View Squad

This option allows you to customise any aspect of your squad. You can assignattribute stars to an individual player, swap a player with a substitute orcustomise a player.

By customising your team, you can alter the kit design, the look of each playerin your team, including making them look like Eric Cantona, and the team’sformation tactics.

Gameplay Tips