Wild Cup Soccer - a broken, rushed mess

[Mr Creosote]

https://www.goodolddays.net/game/id%...up-Soccer.html

Seriously, I challenge anyone to defend this mess! Not on intent, which is fine, but on execution. Putting this on the market was a slap in the face of every remaining Amiga user.

[vulture]

For me, the big problem with this was the frame rate, made it very hard to see what's happening at any time

[stobros]

Frame rate was the biggest problem, indeed.

[dlfrsilver]

the coding was shit on this game.

[Hewitson]

Originally Posted by dlfrsilver

the coding was shit on this game.

Teque weren't much better than Tiertex as far as I'm concerned.

[dlfrsilver]

Originally Posted by Hewitson

Teque weren't much better than Tiertex as far as I'm concerned.

Yep. You've read between the lines

[ImmortalA1000]

Originally Posted by Mr Creosote

https://www.goodolddays.net/game/id%...up-Soccer.html

Seriously, I challenge anyone to defend this mess! Not on intent, which is fine, but on execution. Putting this on the market was a slap in the face of every remaining Amiga user.

Amiga was one of the most complex multi-processor type designs, most coders of Amiga games were clueless. This is a common story.

There is no reason the Amiga didn't get an identical looking port of OutRun as the PC Engine got except for lack of talent/lack of respect for customers by greedy software houses who wasted all their effort up to the point they acquire a license and then do the absolute minimum legal requirement from then on to make sure a quality development happens.

[Anubis]

Never tried this game. Might give it a try, even I don't like much American Football.

[Megalomaniac]

You're thinking of Brutal Sports Football, which is vaguely American Football esque. Wild Cup Soccer was an attempted tie in with the soccer / football 1994 World Cup (perhaps with a hint of wanting to beat FIFA to being the Amiga's first isometric football game). Haven't played it, but after reading Amiga Power's review it's hard to understand why some reviews were favourable.

I'm not sure Teque were that bad (they're basically the guys who became Krisalis, and did many of their in-house games, after all), but their output under that name is uneven, without necessarily improving over the time the way even Tiertex did. With arcade conversions, they went above and beyond what was necessary with Pac-Mania and did enough to do justice to Klax and Robot Monsters (they also brough Laser Squad to the 16-bits, doing nothing wrong there), but they also messed up Chase HQ and (a technically difficult one) Pit-Fighter. Their originals ranged from the decent Shadowlands / Shadoworlds and Brutal Football, down to this and Peter Beardsley's Soccer.