Kick Off 2  (Disk version)
Platform: Commodore 64
Gametype: Undefined
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The original Kick Off was expanded on in many ways for this sequel. The game now features full tournament modes (although the players on the teams are fictitious) and four different pitches (including an implementation of plastic pitches, whose uneven bounce cause controversy when several British clubs tried them in the 1980s).

Viewed top-down, the controls involve trapping the ball under your foot, giving you time to prepare passes. Running with the ball is tricky at first, as it doesn't stick to your foot the way it did in contemporary football games. Complex moves such as overhead kicks, back-heels and long-range through-ball passes can be completed with practice.

Trivia

Famed UK journalist Stuart Campbell was renowned for his vicious hatred of this game - he found the controls really hard to grasp, with the ball whizzing around the pitch seemingly, to him, at random. This created a lot of friction among readers of this and other magazines, especially when he became an obsessive fan of Sensible Soccer and ultimately began working for  Sensible Software. By the time Amiga Power magazine closed in 1996, Stuart was writing for them again, and his final review for them saw him give  Kick Off 96 (which wasn't written by main Kick Off 2 author Dino Dini) a score of 1% (my trivia entry for the game explains why - he wasn't merely being petty)

Anco Software released Kick Off 2002 (obviously in 2002). Surprisingly the cover art of Kick Off 2002 is exactly the same with Kick Off 2. But, with only one difference: the '2' in the front cover art is replaced with '02'.

A wide range of shots - including aftertouch - are available, and fully accessible with a one-button joystick (another feature that modern games could learn from).

Alternate Titles
"World League Soccer" -- SNES title
"Pro Soccer" -- Japanese SNES title
"KO2" -- Common abbreviation


http://www.mobygames.com/game/c64/kick-off-2
