![]() ![]() The only sports game I've seen so far that manages this level of detail in its players is Konami's ISS64. The players are huge (especially if you use the excellent close camera option, which moves to frame the action intelligently) and they're so well-detailed that many actually have the real players' faces mapped onto their heads. Now, however, it's not only very fast, but it looks absolutely brilliant. It got to the point where, while it wasn't exactly so slow it would have come second in a sprint for the last seat on the bus with Mike McShane, it wasn't as blindingly fast as the sport should be. Interim versions have improved the graphics a little here and there each time, but this sometimes meant the speed slowed a bit, too. It's very fast, for a start - the fastest version of the, er, 'beautiful' game I've seen since the first Megadrive EA hockey. ![]() From the moment the completely over-the-top intro starts, you know you're in for a treat. A small crowd, admittedly, but those who witnessed it showed a marked interest in what was going on. Alright, so Betty Page's Bondage Crazy- Golf packed them in, but generally the saps who get to plug their way through the endless sports games do so alone, in a corner, while everyone else clamours around the hot new strategy titles, gasping at the beauty of the hexagons and trying to focus on the tiny figures to see if they're wearing trousers. Its Not Often That Sports Games draw a crowd when they're played on the office computers. ![]()
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