The only FIFA game ever to have this feature, it compiled all the elite teams in europe, like Manchester United, Barcelona and Bayern Munich, into one league. The saving grace of ‘99? The European Dream League. The camera was incredibly zoomed in, and you were given highlighted yellow arrows directing you to where your players were on the pitch. FIFA 99 wasn’t very good, it didn’t capitalise on the World Cup fever on 98. A strange acid electro banging, completely out of time with itself. One of the more bizarre intros, where EA Sports decided to show Tiger Woods swinging his club by a green screen, the music on the team selection screen gave you a migraine. Thank God you didn’t have to wait long for FIFA 99 to come out. Eventually even that wasn’t fun anymore and it became impossible to look at David Beckham on the cover without being overcome with rage. Now playing this game was painful, trying to win the World Cup as England wasn’t fun anymore, it was revenge.
Up until June 30th 1998, this was the best game in the world. This was a game with David Ginola on the cover, you knew what you were getting. Yes it was temperamental but it was magical too. This was a game where Gary Neville could score with a clearance from inside his own penalty box, a replay you saved on your computer because you knew nobody else would believe you. It had so many weird bugs and kinks, but rather than being frustrating they just made the game all the more lovable. It had an indoor mode which allowed you to see how the best teams in the world would do playing in trainers in your school gym.
It had John Motson commentating, getting players’ names wrong and describing a goal in the first minute as one “that would win it surely”. This may not be the greatest replication of a game of football, but it’s a game with all the romance and joy real football should have. If more recent FIFA releases, with their slavish attention to detail and verisimilitude have attempted to be the Barcelona of computer games, then FIFA 97 was happy to settle for being your Sunday League team.
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We discounted out brief, unfortunate affairs with Pro Evo and fought to determine which is the best FIFA game of all time. Then there was the Euro-pop we could sing along to perfectly, but never understood the lyrics.Įvery FIFA game is unique in its own way, and they’ve changed a lot since it first appeared in the mid nineties. We grew up with the evolution of intentional fouls and the slightly forced banter of Andy Gray and Martin Tyler.
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