210: Brutal Sports Football

Number 210
(7.8 points)
Brutal Sports Football
1994: 88

Sports games have always been popular, but fictional sports have plenty of fans, too. Brutal Sports Football falls into that genre.

The sport is based (very) loosely on American football, in that your players can handle the ovoid ball, pass it and kick it, but instead of scoring touchdowns, the ball must go within a soccer-like goal. How it gets there is irrelevant, and there are no rules regarding conduct towards the other team. You can punch them, stomp on them, throw axes at them, and if you succeed in decapitating them, you can kick their head just like the ball. The team with most goals wins, but if one team loses enough players then they lose by default. The game was also released in a Deluxe Edition, which came to both Amiga 1200 and the CD32.

The problem with Brutal Sports Football, at least in the single-player game, is that it starts as great fun, as you figure out how to bash your opponents and kick the ball with accuracy. After a while though, it gets a little samey, and games against harder opponents will involve constant bashing rather than passing and real skill. Perhaps playing against a human would have more lasting appeal, but I haven't found anyone with which to test it.

Recommended TOSEC disk(s):
Brutal Football (1993)(Millennium)(Disk 1 of 2)
Brutal Football (1993)(Millennium)(Disk 2 of 2)
Brutal Football - Deluxe Edition (1994)(Millennium)(AGA)(Disk 1 of 3)
Brutal Football - Deluxe Edition (1994)(Millennium)(AGA)(Disk 2 of 3)
Brutal Football - Deluxe Edition (1994)(Millennium)(AGA)(Disk 3 of 3)