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Sensible World of Soccer 96/97

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4.5/5

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4.5

133 Reviews

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Sensible World of Soccer 96/97
Description
Sensible World of Soccer 96-97 edition is the best and last installment of the most popular soccer series. It’s bursting with every feature you could ever want in a football manager sim. Sensible World of Soccer is brimming with 26,000+ real-life players, each one with carefully researched statistic...
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4.5/5

( 133 Reviews )

4.5

133 Reviews

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Product details
1996, Sensible Software, ...
System requirements
Windows 10, 1.8 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 9.0c, 2 GB HDD...
Description
Sensible World of Soccer 96-97 edition is the best and last installment of the most popular soccer series. It’s bursting with every feature you could ever want in a football manager sim. Sensible World of Soccer is brimming with 26,000+ real-life players, each one with carefully researched statistics and abilities, 144 competitions, from the local tournament all the way to the European Cup Final. Full career records and the unique scouting feature allows you to track and observe a player’s progress and evaluate their contribution to your team. If management is not your style then dive into the action and play for your team. Be prepared to lose quite a few nights’ sleep as you take your team from being a bunch of nobodies to all-time champions, in this 1990s favorite soccer game! Or "football", as we call it in Europe.

  • Choose between being a player, a coach, or a player-coach for any one of the 1,500 Club and National teams.
  • Features more than 26,000 real-life-players with accurate personal statistics!
  • Manage one or more teams throughout a 20 season career and take your team all the way to the European Cup Final.
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Minimum system requirements:

Mac notice: The game is 32-bit only and will not work on macOS 10.15 and up.

Mac notice: The game is 32-bit only and will not work on macOS 10.15 and up.

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Works on:
Windows (10, 11), Linux (Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04)
Release date:
{{'1996-01-02T00:00:00+02:00' | date: 'longDate' : ' +0200 ' }}
Size:
294 MB

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What improvements we made to this game:
Changelog (13 November 2024)
  • Validated stability
  • Verified compatibility with Windows 10 and 11
Internal Update (22 March 2019)
  • Added Cloud Saves functionality
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Posted on: February 24, 2013

Mistic-Gohan

Verified owner

Games: 339 Reviews: 3

SWOS

The best football game ever made ,that leaves shitty fifas and pes far behind ! Get ready for the biggest and most exciting challenge You can experience !


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Posted on: February 24, 2013

brknn

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Games: 23 Reviews: 4

318 mb!!!!

legandary game i missed old footballers. i played it on mac,it works without any problem. very good. but i didn't understand that why it is 318 mb? it was a diskette game


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Posted on: February 21, 2013

mijgog

Games: 34 Reviews: 1

I still play it today !

My friends and I are still playing SWOS with an Amiga simulator and we always have a lot of fun !


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Posted on: May 20, 2013

wormholewizards

Verified owner

Games: 581 Reviews: 13

It's time for some negativity!!!

The ball doesn't stick to the player, this is intentional by design. However this doesn't apply to the computer AI at all. The ball glued to their feet, they can dribble from their own half to your six yard box without losing control of the ball. The AI is in the form of rubber-band, cheating AI. Unfortunately like many other classic sports title, Sensi is no difference on this matter. You'll soon notice the AI is programmed to chase the ball 100% of the entire game. They don't give you any space, they can anticipate your movement, they always made perfect slide tackle and block, they never have trouble to chase loose ball, something that any human player will never able to replicate. Worst of all, the CPU controlled player can run in zig-zag motion and sometime do a 360 spinning in order to keep the ball. All of this in just 3 seconds. This is not a skill move, it's impossible for human player to do similar move. 3 minutes only for Career, Competition and League mode. This is hard-coded (though maybe you can hack the hex). The match length on the option menu only applicable to Friendly and DIY mode. You can do nothing in just 3 minutes. There's not enough time for you to create chances, score, let alone chasing the scoreline if you fall behind. Most of the time the match will end with 0-0, 1-0 and 1-1. I don't know what were they thinking. The game can be really good but i can't let those 3 fatal flaws slide just like that. It seriously affect the enjoyment of the game.


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Posted on: August 27, 2013

Toreharell

Verified owner

Games: 8 Reviews: 1

can't make a curve ball why :/ ?

Why can't i not make a curve ball :/ ? and how do i make new controls settings :) ?


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