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World Cup Carnival
is here at last, and what a load of complete and
utter crud it is. I thought that US Gold had something
really special for us football fans, but no. Just
a recycled copy of Artic's pathetic World
Cup II. The game
plays so incredibly badly it's not true -- when
you have a player under your control the rest
of your team mates don't move a muscle -- they
just stand there like dummies. The set pieces
taken by other players are a complete joke --
they just bung or kick the ball completely at
random, giving you no chance to play properly.
Speaking of playability, the whole game is incredibly
simple and I whizzed through the rounds and won
the world cup with ease -- an ardent International
Soccer fan would
have even less trouble. The graphics are awful,
with totally pathetic animation and wobbly scrolling,
and the ball moves like it was filled with water.
The sound is pathetic too and the tune which plays
throughout the game is annoying, repetitive, unimaginative
and abysmal. Even if you're a football fan, don't
go out and buy this hyped drivel, get International
Soccer instead,
it's infinitely better.
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World
Cup Carnival
1985 US Gold
Programmed
by John Prince
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Most
text of the present article comes from the review published
in the fifteenth issue of the British C64 magazine ZZAP!64
(street date: June 12th, 1986). |
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WORLD CUP CARNIVAL
US
Gold, £9.95 cass, £14.95 disk, one
or two joysticks
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The World Cup is happening at this very moment, and
if that isn't enough here's US Gold's World Cup Carnival
so you can play your own footy matches in between watching
the real ones. What the program does is allow you to
set up your own little world cup tournament starting
from the quarter finals. When the program loads you're
asked to input the number of players and their choice
of teams. Once that's been sorted out of the computer
takes control of any other teams remaining and the footy
matches can begin proper.
WCC
plays similarly to International Soccer, being
viewed panoramically in 3D with the game played over
a three screen long pitch which scrolls with the ball.
At the beginning of the match the two teams beetle out
of the dressing room and make their way to their various
positions on the pitch. When they're all ready, the
match begins. You're given control over the man nearest
the ball and you can move him anywhere on the pitch.
If the ball falls to his feet he automatically dribbles
it until you press the fire button, which makes him
kick it. The opponent's player can steal the ball when
it's in your possession by simply running into you,
forcing you to have to steal the ball back. If the ball
isn't in your possession and the fire button is pressed,
control is handed to the player nearest the ball (useful
if your man currently under control is far away from
the ball).
When
your opponent gets the ball anywhere near the goal your
goalkeeper is automatically under your control, allowing
you to make him dive left or right. Set pieces such
as corners, throw-ins and goal kicks are automatically
taken for you by a helpful team mate, although penalties
are taken by the player. The game is played over a simulated
90 minutes with a short break at half time. When the
match finishes your score is shown along with the others
and you're put through to the next round if you qualify.
The game continues in the same way through the semi
finals to the finals, the winner of which is shown a
representation of the Jules Rimet cup and proclaimed
the winner.
Along
with WCC comes some impressive and very glossy
packaging. First there's a poster informing you of lots
of World Cup trivia. There's also a free competition
you can enter with a CD player as first prize, a World
Cup wallchart and stickers, poster size instructions
and a World Cup sew-on badge.
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Commodore's
International
Soccer
is great, which is more than can be said for the
real thing. I don't like football. And I don't
like World
Cup Carnival
either. Crap is a word that sprang to mind many
a time while I was playing it. The graphics are,
on the whole, crap. Twenty two chunky hunchbacks
hobble around a football pitch with seismic problems,
whilst a random selection of pixels pretends to
be a crowd -- and rather badly at that. Ugh. The
music played throughout the game is also crap,
and would make Rob Hubbard turn in his proverbial
grave. But the crappiest thing about World
Cup Carnival
is the game itself, which is basically Artic's
World
Cup II
with a few minor changes. Beneath the glossy wallchart
and cloth badge ('ooh look, mummy, please can
you sew it on?') packaging there is, quite simply,
a pile of crap which you could smell a mile off.
Avoid this game at all costs.
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Presentation
92%
Very glossy packaging with posters etc but it's
a bit like a rosy red apple full of maggots.
Graphics
24%
Fat wobbling sprites and jellyoid
scrolling.
Sound
29%
A revolting tune which makes turning
the volume switch to its minimum a joy.
Hookability
34%
Initial interest may be generated
by World Cup fever...
Lastability
21%
But the simplicity and poor quality
of the game soon quashes that.
Value
For Money 13%
Ten quid is very steep for a few
glossy posters and a feeble footy game.
Overall
11%
Hyped drivel which should be thrown
into a deep dark hole and left to die.
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Htmlized
by Dimitris
Kiminas (29 Jan 2006)
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