Actua Soccer

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Actua Soccer
Actua Soccer DOS Cover.jpg
DOS Cover art
Developer(s)Gremlin Interactive
Publisher(s)Gremlin Interactive (United Kingdom)
Interplay Productions (United States)
Designer(s), ,
Series
Platform(s)MacOS, DOS, PlayStation, Sega Saturn, Windows
Release1995 (DOS)
1996
2009 (Windows)
Genre(s)Soccer
Mode(s)Single-player, Multi-player

Actua Soccer is a British football/soccer videogame of 1995, developed and published by Gremlin Interactive. It was the first title of the Actua Sports series. The game was released in the United States by Interplay Productions' division VR Sports under the title of VR Soccer.

This was the first football/soccer videogame to include a full 3D graphics engine. It was released in 1995 for Microsoft Windows, Macintosh, PlayStation and Sega Saturn platforms. For the animations of the players, 3 players of the club Sheffield Wednesday served as motion capture models.[1][2]

Actua Soccer contains only 44 national teams, each containing 22 players.[2] However, in 1996 a new version containing clubs was released: Actua Soccer: Club Edition. It contained 20 Premier League teams from the 1996/1997 season.[2] This videogame became a best seller in Europe, mainly in the United Kingdom.

National teams[]

The following national teams are featured in the game:

Sales[]

The game has sold more than 1 million copies for PC and Playstation by June 1997.[3]

References[]

  1. ^ Parada, Jaime. "Actua Soccer (1995)". Insert Coin (in Spanish). Retrieved November 4, 2019.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c Langshaw, Mark (September 27, 2014). "Actua Soccer retrospective: Put one past the mighty FIFA in 1995". Digital Spy. London: Hearst UK. Retrieved November 4, 2019.
  3. ^ Webster, Garrick (June 22, 1997). "UK games without frontiers". The Observer. Retrieved August 15, 2021.closed access(Subscription required.)

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