I thought that this game was OK given the size of the download (250Kb) and the fact that it was made in MS-DOS. Based on the fact that it is a text-based game I thought that it was great. Its positive aspects include that it has an amazing array of features. It has stats such as overall team ratings and it even gives you your level of difficulty for each game. It rates your manager status like if you are "capable" you keep your job.
It has a good variety of tactics to use such as for defense you can choose to use an offside trap or not.
The players it contained were relative to the time it was made and I thought that the fact that it had stats for each was good. Some of the player characteristics were speed, hardness, fitness, energy and morale. It also keeps records of how each of the four aspects of the teams’ game is going: Keeping, Defending, Midfield and Attack. I also thought that it was good that they had something that could control the speed of the matches because I found it a bit slow. These were what I thought the company that made the game did well.
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The engine that runs the matches wasn't very good and when I played it there was a weird buzzing noise in the background. Of course you could turn it off but it was still a bad point. As I said before the games were too slow and I also thought that it missed a few areas such as managing your stadium. The game didn't have a transfer market which was bad because you had to wait for the end of the season before you got new players into your team and your old players left. Even then you sometimes had to rebuild your team slowly season by season because they weren't on a transfer market.
I thought that Goal 94 was an overall good game to play but it missed a few important points that a good championship manager game has. I was surprised that they didn't make a game like this out of a League because I would be sure that it would do well if they manage to add the few bits and pieces that they missed out on. I rate it about a 7/10 due to its array of stats and its good tactics in all aspects of the game but it loses mark for because of the match engine and the areas that it missed that a basic manager game needs to make it interesting.
