Sensible World of Soccer
Developer Sensible Software
Publisher Renegade
Genre Sports
Released 1994S
till considered by some as the
greatest football game ever
made, SWOS was a superb
refinement of the original’s
excellent foundations.
It played a more flexible game,
promoting an attractive brand of tiki-
taka passing football while still allowing
for the odd uncultured hoof upfield.
Unrealistic as it was, the sublime
aftertouch gave you a degree of control
unmatched by other simulations
of the beautiful game at the time.
Meanwhile, a new career mode with
light management elements laid down
a template from which so many sports
games since have borrowed – likewise,
the concept of subsequent releases
with their updated rosters and features.Tempting as it is to highlight the ludicrously
good Gianluca Vialli, the real hero of SWOS was
the goal-scoring superstar hero celebrated in
its absurdly catchy theme tune, who let his hair
down and played to the fans.
CLASSIC HERO