Actua Soccer IBM PC MS-DOS 1995 Gremlin Interactive

Actua Soccer PC DOS

Gremlin Interactive released Actua Soccer for IBM PC MS-DOS 5.0 in 1995 in Europe. Actua Soccer was renamed to VR Soccer '96 for its March 1996 release in the USA.

Actua Soccer was designed by Andy Findlay and Ade Carless.

Actua Soccer displays its menus and 3D texture-mapped playfield in 256-color VGA 320x200 or 256-color square-pixel SVGA 640x480, but Actua Soccer's in-game SVGA render-field is "only" 640x400. The ball and football players in Actua are polygonal models rendered in real-time 3D, not rotating and scaling sprites.

Actua Soccer requires an i80486DX-33 MHz CPU, 500K of free conventional RAM, 3 megs of XMS RAM and VESA SVGA graphics card. Actua Soccer is a Rational Systems' DOS/4GW Protected mode run-time v1.97.

Actua Soccer supports joysticks or keyboard control.

Actua Soccer features toggleable skyline and video wall as well as tailorable detail for lines, stadium, pitch and players.

Actua Soccer sound supports Sound Blaster, Sound Blaster 16, Sound Blaster Pro, Sound Blaster AWE-32, Gravis UltraSound, Gravis UltraSound MAX, Ensoniq SoundScape and Microsoft Sound System.

Actua Soccer music supports General MIDI, Roland MT-32, Sound Canvas, AdLib, Sound Blaster, Sound Blaster 16, Sound Blaster Pro, Soond Blaster AWE-32, Gravis UltraSound, Gravis UltraSound MAX and Microsoft Sound System.

Actua Soccer was distributed on 1x CD-ROM and extracts and installs to hard disk drive via Kevin Dudley's Actua Soccer Installation & Setup. The install size is 65 megs and consists of 130 files.

Actua Soccer Features

• 4 Modes of play: Friendly, League, Cup, Practice
• 44 International teams
• 22 players per squad with 8 different skill factors
• 8 camera angles: Far camera, Plan camera, Goal line camera, Manual camera, Player camera, Wire camera (default), Referee camera, Isometric camera
• Passing & Shooting: Normal pass, Normal shot, First Time Touch, Disguised pass, Chip Shot, Dummy pass, High pass, Power pass, Power shot
• Throw-ins, goal kicks, corner kicks, free kicks, penalties
• 1-4 players on one PC
• Employs windspeed
• Save / Load facility
• 260 megs of music, digitized commentary and sound effects streamed from CD-ROM
• 100 megs of Full-motion video (FMV) streamed from CD-ROM
• Serial and modem-link (up to 20 players)

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