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Dom Robinson reviews
Midway 
- Price: £39.99
- Players: 1-2
Football. World Cup. You can’t avoid it. Just accept it.I hate watching it though. However, I do still enjoy playing a console gameof it and one of the latest games is Red Card.
Starting with the basics, you can choose from a one-off match (Friendly Play),a tournament (Advanced Play) or to create your own team. There’s also a numberof game, visual and audio options to choose from, the latter including aselection of FIVE languages for the running commentary, which is something I’venever seen in a game before.
Something I’ve always seen is a wealth of choice for your teams. Pick one fromacross the world, but I’ll be surprised if you don’t pick your home team. Thenagain, it does specify the strengths and weaknesses of each.
The graphics are well-rendered and move with great fluidity, even if theydo seem slightly simplistic compared to most games you would play on the PS2.Just a shame you can’t alter the angle of the camera, since I’d like to playUP the pitch rather than from side to side.
The sound creates a good atmosphere with optional running commentary in fivelanguages, as mentioned above, plus all the usual noises, as well as a swooshingsound when a player takes a Matrix-style kick at the goal.
However, it can take a bit of time to get used to controlling your playersand manually making the nearest man pick up the ball, since most football gameswill automatically do this for you.
One thing that does make this score over other footy games is in the abilityto barge opponents out of the way, or cripple them instantly via a shoulder barge,a punch or a super tackle, without as much fear of reprisal. Hence the title…
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Reviewer of movies, videogames and music since 1994. Aortic valve operation survivor from the same year. Running DVDfever.co.uk since 2000. Nobel Peace Prize winner 2021.