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FIFA Soccer 64

aka: FIFA 64
Moby ID: 21497
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The FIFA series introduces itself to the Nintendo 64, with all the football/soccer action one can expect from an EA Sports title. Choose your team, whether it be Manchester Utd or Real Madrid, or even a lowly ranked team, and take them through the ranks of the professional sport right up to the crowned kings of their tournament. You can stick with the local leagues (five in all) or take your team onto the International circuit and compete against every team available.

FIFA Soccer 64 can be played by up to 4 players at a time.

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Average score: 56% (based on 16 ratings)

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Average score: 2.9 out of 5 (based on 9 ratings with 1 reviews)

A broken mess

The Good
It has licensed teams, supposedly

The Bad
UI is awful, zero team management, slow and clunky

The Bottom Line
When I was younger, I used to be very much into football, the era of the football games I’ve been playing will have the players I remember in them. FIFA 64 has official licences for a few countries – although they do so little with it that I’m not sure why they bothered.

The players in FIFA 64 are horrific, nightmarish creatures with distorted arms and legs, and with no proper team management – you can only change formation, there aren’t even substitutions – the only time you ever see a player’s name is when scoring a goal.

While Perfect Striker only had a small amount of Japanese teams, it still feels like it had a lot more stuff than FIFA 64 in every other department. The HUD in FIFA 64 is dreadful, showing just the time (no score!), although you can get a picture-in-picture with a different camera angle that covers up far too much of the main screen. You can make the pitch “damp” but you can’t really tell the difference, there’s no rain effects.

The gameplay itself is equally dismal, being extremely slow and clunky. Even passing feels completely broken, as your players will often kick the ball backwards or just tap it forward slightly. Every match is tedious – which is probably why you can skip matches in the league mode (which seems pointless without any kind of management).

FIFA 64 is a very dismal football game and is not nice to play. It very clunky, looks ugly and the game pelts you with annoying sound effects as you play.

Nintendo 64 · by Cube1701 · 2024

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Reception and Cartridge Limitations

Due to being cartridge-based, compared to earlier releases of FIFA, FIFA Soccer 64 is stripped down detail-wise. Reduction to one commentator, the low quantity of different lines spoken by commentator, poor quality of when lines are spoken, poor game performance/frame-rate, over-abbreviating and omitting textual details were all reported problems with this new FIFA release. The sole commentator will often erroneously interrupt himself, sometimes even immediately contradicting himself. This angered many fans due to widespread hype and excitement for FIFA's first 3D soccer game on the N64. Another notable release demonstrating the console's limitations in quality due to its usage of the cartridge form-factor.

Unfortunately, the follow-up release to this, FIFA 99 for N64, suffered from many of the same problems for many of the same reasons.

Awards

  • Electronic Gaming Monthly
    • 1998 Buyer's Guide - Most Disappointing Sequel

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Game added by Kartanym.

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Game added March 7th, 2006. Last modified January 4th, 2024.