AUTHOR: TecMagik RELEASE: 1992 TYP: Sport SPIELER: 2 LEVEL: 34 SPRACHE: Englisch Partnumber: 27034-50 EAN: 5021093160964 WERT: 7 Euro

Your chance to be a champion has arrived! Compete against Europe's finest teams in the football game for 1992. Fast paced action, multiple options, 'instinctive' controls and superb animation make CHAMPIONS OF EUROPE the official game of UEFA '92 rock solid soccer!

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Finals
Qualify for the semi-finals and play until a score of 0-0 is reached at half-time. Select the „Quit“ option to jump to the finals.

Easy Goal Glitch
Kicking the ball into your own goal, will class as a goal for your team.

At first this appears to be a nice attempt at a football (soccer) game on a system with just two action buttons. Made in conjunction with the 1992 European Championships in Sweden and even featuring the mascot that adorned the tournament's merchandise, Berni the bunny, you have the choice to play as any team from Europe at the time (a lot has changed since then though). Choose from practice, demo, exhibition or tournament matches in 1 player or 2 player mode. The length of each football match can be changed from 3, 5, 8 or 10 minutes per half and there are a host of other options, including after-touch, wind strength and weather conditions. All of the necessary options for a good football game appear to be present. The tournament itself is based around the UEFA Championship, starting with a set of qualifying leagues before moving into the knock-out stages. It isn't just the teams that featured in Euro '92 can be picked; every country eligible for the tournament is in the game, shown way of a map of Europe. Unfortunately the map where you select the teams is poor. It isn't due to the Master Systems graphical limitations either, it's just badly drawn and out of proportion. The names of the countries are all in their own languages too, so unless you have good geographical knowledge of Europe in the early 90's you'll find it a challenge just knowing which team you picked, mostly where Eastern Europe is concerned. This wasn't an issue upon release, but nowadays it is. Gameplay is extremely hampered by the lack of control you have over the players and the ball, but more about that later. The AI of the computer controlled teams is just as hapless, they all run around aimlessly which just makes their actions too confusing to react to and deal with. The view of the pitch is a top-down one, leaving you with sight of only your immediate surroundings, also of little use in a sport that relies on awareness of the other areas of the pitch and of who is positioned where. Your awareness of where other players are on the pitch is extremely limited, there is a radar but because play moves so fast and you need all of your concentration on the ball you don't have time to even glance at the radar, making it redundant. Even if you could look at it once in a while, the dots representing your players are almost indistinguishable from those of the opposite team. There also appears to be no difference between each team's abilities at all, no statistics that affect play and very few options in play besides run and kick. Oh you can add after-touch to the ball, but kicking the ball in a straight line is as likely to achieve a goal as using after-touch since the goal keepers are slow and their movements very limited. This brings me to another flaw - penalty taking. There are some glitches in this section of the game which make taking penalties a rather random affair, not least of which is the ball sometimes going in the opposite direction of where you want it to. On occasion the ball will pass right through the goalkeeper. […] It could have been great - Champions of Europe had an official license and looked very good - but there's no fun here and no challenge worth persevering for. It fails on the essentials.. running with and kicking the ball. - www.smstributes.co.uk