Euro 96 was a special time for English football, the first tournament to be held in England since the World Cup in 1996. The game to go with the tournament was just as good for English Football.
On its release in the mid-90's, Uefa Euro 96 England was hailed as a genuine contender for 'The King of the International Footy games'. This was not without reason. Good graphics, excellent commentary and a relatively simplistic but very playable control system meant that this was up there.
Euro 96 was a special time for English football, the first tournament to be held in England since the World Cup in 1996. The game to go with the tournament was just as good for English Football.
On its release in the mid-90's, Uefa Euro 96 England was hailed as a genuine contender for 'The King of the International Footy games'. This was not without reason. Good graphics, excellent commentary and a relatively simplistic but very playable control system meant that this was up there. However, predictably, it has not aged well. All of the things that made Uefa Euro 96 England good have now been drastically improved in other games over the years. Now it appears poor but for the nostalgic it might be worth a
look.
Despite being 10 years old now, Uefa Euro 96 England is a benchmark to all current football games. Despite facing competition at the time from games such as Actual Soccer, Uefa Euro 96 England managed to keep ahead of the competition with one interesting feature.
This feature was the ability to play not just as a team, but also to play as just one player. To my knowledge this is the only game that ever had this function. It enables you to run your midfielder into the box to get a head onto a cross. It is this feature which helps Uefa Euro 96 England out muscle the competition. Obviously time have changed and technology has moved on meaning Uefa Euro 96 England looks poor compared to modern games such as Pro Evo, however none of them has the Uefa Euro 96 England feature. This is surprising.
However, there are also problems with this feature; the feature added of first-person football is more than a gimmick. With that said, playing football from a first-person view isn't as much fun as you might think. Sure, passes and kicks are awesome, and running with the ball, in general, is a lot of fun in the first-person view, but it's ultimately not as much fun as playing the game from a regular camera view. The one thing that's important to note is that there are some major game play differences when Uefa Euro 96 England is in first-person mode versus regular camera mode.
So to conclude the game is worth a download, even if just for a quick hour when you should be doing something important. Still, to date the only game with the brilliant first-person football view.
