Sensible Soccer's Spiritual Successor Kicks Off Next Month On Switch

Most popular soccer game to release on Switch this year I reckon.

Sensible soccer was probably one of the best football games of all time. Sensible Software in general were legends of the sort you rarely see anymore in this more corporate gaming landscape. Good days.

I never liked Sensible Soccer. It wasn't football. It wasn't even soccer. It was more like ping-pong on a soccer field. Let's hope this updated version involves much more than pinging a dot around a field.

I lost many, many hours to sensible soccer back in the day. You’re goal scoring superstar hero…

that does not look sensible.

It's only Sensi if you can run straight down the field to the corner of the box, cross it in past the CPU keeper on the diagonal and score. Every. Single. Time.

@HalBailman it still is the most soccery game there is, but on a different perspective than your tv style look

i stil participate in the world cup every year, this year berlin

sociable soccer is quite a different game though, fun on phones, so we'll see

Loved SWOS back in the day but not a fan of the graphics on this new version. Though its great that it looks to have real player names, always a bit off putting having players with slightly switched out vowels to cover copyright

Interesting. I have a lot of fond memories of Sensible Soccer back in the 90s. I really hope this is good, because it's been a long time since I have played a football game I really enjoyed.

I've only played FIFA in the last 10 years, so am not familiar with the options in EA FC 24, Sociable Soccer, or whatever the last version of PES was.

But while I like FIFA a lot and have spent many, many hours playing various iterations over the years, I think its biggest problem is how lacking it is in fun options. Yes, you can move sliders up and down to adjust player running speed, goalkeeper difficulty etc., but you can't set any more arcadey options like: turn offsides off, turn fouls off (or adjust referee strictness).

If you play on hardest difficulty
to make the games competitive you can be spending too much leisure time trying to win the ball back without fouling, and trying to make fluid attacks without getting caught offside. Offside in FIFA, as in real football, is ****ing infuriating because the players run offside so damn much - let me turn offside off or at least have some settings so I can stop my players ever going offside, or allow some random flexibility in how accurately offside is enforced.

This is why Mario Strikers will always have a place on my shelf - no fouls and no offsides. Fun.

Hopefully Sociable Soccer incorporates some of the options I'm looking for, I'll have to look into it.

Hope Sociable Soccer 24 is something good on the gameplay front. Back in the day, I played so many football games on Commodore. Kick Off, Sensible Soccer, International soccer, ... not good today but man, had I fun with a lot of them. PES needs to come back like it used to be. I long preferred it above Fifa games. Also, what happened to UFL?
I hope SS doesn't only try to get players who have nostalgic feels but gives something more like a Mario Strikers or Captain Tsubasa.

@romanista It's the least soccery game to me. Heck, I got more out of Excite Bike 64 Soccer than Sensible Soccer. It's a joke, sorry. Reminder: We are all entitled to our own opinions so please leave it at that.

@HalBailman oh don't worry, just wanted to show the perspective i had on the game..

@gcunit There's plenty of fun options on FIFA. There's the arcade modes with stuff like you lose a player whenever you score, or everytime the ball goes out of play a new super power is enabled

@Big_Fudge Srs? Which version and which mode is that?

Have played it a bit on Apple Arcade. It's a bit of a leap to say it is especially close to Sensi. I guess the passing is somewhat similar. But you don't get the same level of control over shooting and tackling is a bit of a mess. I don't see many people scoring really nice goals on it either, despite Sensi's apparent simplicity (which I would question anyway), you really could score some beautiful goals on that game.
Also the camera is super jerky, way too sensitive. It actually gave me motion sickness so severely limits how much of it I can play.
Somebody involved with the game claims that some of these concerns have been noted since the release on apple arcade and that this version has moved on but I'm really not sure they can be trusted. So many lies and false promises since this game was announced. I'd at least need to play a demo before buying.

It's better than the 99p drivel football games that you can find on the Switch store but some way short of the mighty Sensi.

By the way, HalBailman - you yuck somebody else's yum and when they offer a differing opinion you shut them down whilst saying we're all entitled to our own opinion? Practice what you preach.

@gcunit I don't know if just the none Switch versions, haven't tried it in EAFC, but it was in the last 3 for sure

"pixel cup soccer - ultimate edition " is already on switch.....

When people say spiritual successor do they mean "we are going to piggy back off a long dead game series in the hope we sell a few more copies".