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PC guys had always such abundance of soccer games, UEFA 2000, FIFA2000 etc, and i can not play a single soccer game on my G3! makes me mad! WHere are they?

[TomG3AKAMacguyver]

Yea, unfortunately not alot of sports games for the mac in general. But there is a soccer game for the Mac, I used to have it (actually now it is in a box in the attic at my parents house 1200 miles away).

It is called Virtually Reality Soccer (or VR Soccer). It was actually very cool with very good graphics - it came with my Techworks Voodoo 1 card. I never saw it in retail and I have no idea where you could start looking for it.

Wish I could be more help, try searching for it. I think I read about it somewhere and it listed only a PC version, but it *definitely* was made for the Mac too, I played it on my Mac.

Best of Luck,
TomG3
Staff,
MacGamersReview.com

[Chimpmaster]

There is another one. new - its a football manager game. Not the same as fifa because its not entirely action, but these strategic football manager games are really cool nowadays - and actually have far more depth than the action ones.

+ you get to see the whole match with good graphics now, and influence what each player is doing.

Its called Championship Manager 00/01 and its by Eidos software apparently.

The mac version was done by http://www.feral.co.uk/

Check out the page on it at their website - it looks very cool to me (the game that is). It even has a where to buy. I imagine that it might be difficult to get in the usa cos its a british game, but you can get it here in australia without any probs so perhaps

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Thank you very VERY much, both Tom and Chimpmaster!

Soccer is everything to me I live by it Playing it on Mac will be great!

[marusin]

I checked out that Feral site and did some research.. Who knew that Championship Manager has such a cult following? I sure wish the U.S. would pick up on the "real" football that is so prevalent throughout the world...

Anyways, they have a demo you can download at the Feral site so I'm gonna take a look at it when I get home and see what it's all about... Any other recommendations, please pass them along...

-Mike

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After few attempts, i found the sites of Virtual Reality Soccer/Actua Soccer for Mac. It seems the mac version is identical to PC version of Actua Soccer 2. I wish i had it!

[Elvin]

You can also buy a copy of "Virtual Game Station" (try www.ebay.com) so that you can play Playstation 1 games on your Mac...therefore you could then play FIFA 2001. Unfortunately, this will probably be that last FIFA for Playstation 1.

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i actually have an experience of playing FIFA 2000 and 99 and 98 on PC. I found its controls somewhat confusing, and gameplay not good. For example, on some setting its plain hard even to keep ball, and not interesting at all..Ppl say that Actua Soccer got better play and more interesting

VGS does not work on my international System, it requires North American OS and i was told it does not use hardware acceleration

[Chimpmaster]

In the end, you are probably better off buying a ps2 if you are into soccer games.
Thats what I intend to do, when the prices drop. And I reckon they will drop with the release of xbox and gamecube.

Then again, the gamecube is going to retail for $199! Pretty damn good hey! And you will get all the fifa games for sure.

The next era of consoles will be great because they are using dvd which has high disk capacity - youll see more "pc" type games and less "console" type games if you know what I mean.

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Chimpmaster,

yeahh, i already have PS1 and few soccer games, but they really suck on it-especially FIFA..On PC there are few good games- and i wonder why. OH WHY, they are not ported to Mac? Sure in past, hardware was a problem,,but now?

And i dont like managerial stuff, for me good pass -shoot-goal is everything,

Besides, in arcades there is Virtual Striker 3 from SEGA - and it really ROCKS! once i won 10 times in row!