Why Sociable Soccer is more enjoyable than EA Sports FC – Reader’s Feature
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A reader reminisces over his childhood playing Sensible World Of Soccer on the Amiga and how Sociable Soccer has become the modern equivalent. Damn, I loved Sensible World Of Soccer as a kid! I played it every spare hour I had. This started back in 1994, when I was 14, living in a hellhole called Speke in the south of Liverpool. I took my beloved Everton (at the time) to 10 Champions League and Premier League victories. I was a master.
![[Sociable Soccer 25 screenshot]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/SEI_234150736-862a.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
On Boxing Day, I would go to my cousins and lay all opponents to waste. I was a master. I wish the Amiga could have kept count of all the hours I spent on that game. Must have been close to a thousand hours, surely. When Sensible World Of Soccer was re-released on the Xbox 360 in December 2007, I was hooked all over again.
However, the gaming climate had changed considerably since the Amiga days and my tastes had moved to first person games like Portal, Half-Life 2, music games like Guitar Hero, Lumines on my PSP, and the Japanese role-players Eternal Sonata and Ōkami. With so many options, my attentions were distracted.
10 years later in 2017, Jon Hare and his team at Tower Studios released Sociable Soccer on early access for Steam. I was chuffed. I made a bootcamp partition in my Mac to be able to play it. The Ultimate Team style progression mechanic was enjoyable, the graphics and gameplay felt like a satisfactory evolution of the Amiga graphics. Jon was able to add more of his sense of humour to the players, with the extra detail that modern PCs afford.
