FIFA Soccer 97 IBM PC MS-DOS 1996 Extended Play Productions

FIFA Soccer 97 PC DOS

Extended Play Productions released FIFA Soccer 97 for Windows 95 DirectX 2.0 and IBM PC MS-DOS in June of 1996. Note the inferior titlescreen and menus in comparison to FIFA Soccer 96 of 1995: not as bright, not as clear and not as professional, period. Still, FIFA Soccer 97 is a good, full-featured football game.

The PC version of FIFA Soccer 97 was lead-programmed by Darren Gyles, lead-drawn by Terry Chui and composed by Graeme Coleman.

FIFA Soccer 97 displays its menus and 3D texture-mapped playfield in 256-color square-pixel SVGA 640x480. The ball and football players in FIFA Soccer 97 are polygonal models rendered in real-time 3D, not rotating and scaling sprites (as in FIFA Soccer 96 of 1995).

The MS-DOS version of FIFA Soccer 97 requires an Intel Pentium 75 MHz CPU, 8 megs of RAM and PCI/VLB SVGA graphics card with 1 meg of vRAM. The Windows 95 version of FIFA Soccer 97 requires 16 megs of RAM. FIFA Soccer 97 is a Rational Systems' DOS/4GW Protected mode run-time v1.97.

FIFA Soccer 97 supports 4-button joysticks and gamepads.

FIFA Soccer 97 audio supports Sound Blaster, Sound Blaster 16, Sound Blaster Pro, Gravis UltraSound, SoundScape and Windows Sound System.

FIFA Soccer 97 was distributed on 1x CD-ROM extracts and installs to hard disk drive via FIFA '97 Install. The install size is 50 megs and consists of 640 files: 11 megs of UI, 3 megs of art, 2 megs of sound effects and 33 megs of digitized speech.

FIFA Soccer 97 Features

• 5 Modes of play: Friendly, League, Tournament, Playoff, Practice
• 12 International leagues
• 255 International teams, 4200 players, 17 player skills
• Players constituted by 17 stats: Rank, Skill, Speed, Aggression, Ball Control, Power, Accuracy, Agility, Reaction, Bicycles, Headers, Slides, Stamina, Passing, Acceleration, Fitness and Awareness
• Team Coverage: Attacking, Defending, Midfield 1, Midfield 2
• Team Formation: 4-4-2, Sweeper, 4-2-4, 4-3-3, 3-5-2
• Team Strategy: Attack, Defend, All-out Offense, All-out Defense, Long Ball
• Head, chest, pass, throw, backheel, tackle, shoot, slide, bicycle kick
• 8 camera angles: tele, slideline, cable, endzone, stadium, shoulder, ball, tower
• Save / Load facility
• 200 megs of music and sound effects streamed from CD-ROM
• 65 megs of Full-motion video (FMV) streamed from CD-ROM
• Serial and modem-link (IPX-TCP/IP network)
• Tailorable render-field size via "+/-" keys
• Tailorable field and stadium detail via Y and T keys
• Indoor and outdoor fields
• 1-4 players via Gravis GrIP
• Player Transfers
• 3 International commentators voiced

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