THE ACTUAL, LIKE, GAME, MAN 19. Okay. You've made it this far. The pre-match preparation is over. It's time to start the game. You should have a feel for moving the cursor around the screen and actually selecting things from the menus by now, so it shouldn't be too tricky. In any case, anywhere in the game, hitting the red 'Exit' button on the screen will return you to the previous menu, so if you get lost, just hit a few Exits and you'll soon find your bearings again. The options on the Play screen are laid out thusly: FRIENDLY - Play a single game between any two teams in the world. DIY COMPETITION - Set up your own competition to your own specifications. For details, go to 20. PRESET COMPETITION - Take part in any national, continental or world competition. Simply select either the World Cup, the World Club Championship, or the continent you wish to play on, then choose one of the continent-wide competitions (eg the UEFA Cup) or pick the country you want to play a national competition in. Couldn't be easier if we came round to your house and did it for you ourselves, missus. SEASON - This gives you a single season to play, as a sort of sampler for the full Career game. In Season mode you play the game as normal, but you don't have to worry about transfers, tactics or financial matters. Since it's a cut-down version of Career mode, we'll cover the various aspects in that section. Okay? CAREER - Full-on Sensible
World Of Soccer the way it's meant to be played.
Like, go to 21, man. 20. There are three basic types of competition you can construct with the DIY Competition option: LEAGUE - This can comprise any number of teams from 2 to 24, playing each other between 1 and 10 times a season. You can award 2 or 3 points for a win, and allow any number between 0 and 5 substitutes, from a selection also between 0 and 5. (But don't try to select '4 substitutes from a selection of 3'. That way madness lies.) CUP - The cup can be for any even number of teams between 2 and 64, selected by clicking on the 'number of rounds box'. Away goals can be switched on or off, and you can choose any combination of legs, extra time and penalties for each round (for example, you can have the first round played over 2 legs with no extra time but penalties in the event of a draw, the second round played over 1 leg with extra time with no penalties, and the third round played over two legs with extra time only being played if it's a replay, followed by penalties at the end. If you really want to.) Substitutes are again any number between 0 and 5, and you can call the competition anything you like by pressing fire on the blue box at the top and typing your new name in. (Up to 24 characters only. So Scooby Doo's "And I Would Have Gotten Away With It Too, If It Wasn't For You Meddling Kids" Memorial Trophy is out. For example.) TOURNAMENT - You must be getting the hang of this by now, yes? Tournaments are always for 24 teams, in a league-then-knockout format (although you can, if you want, make it leagues-only right up to and including the final, which can be a 2-team league with the teams playing each other 4 times to decide the winner. But that's mad.) Normally you'll probably play it a bit like the World Cup, with initial leagues providing the last 16, who then play in a knockout style. Although then again, who am I to tell you what to do? Anyway, the only thing here you won't have seen before is the Seeding' option (activated by clicking on the little tiny box just under the second 'E' of 'SEEDED'), which enables you to seed any or all of the rounds of the tournament in order to theoretically keep the best teams apart until the later stages. It's all pretty obvious stuff, this, isn't it? Let's go to 21. |
