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On the Ball

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On the Ball description

Very old coach simulator (!) football team – not the Manager, and it trainer.

With his team (the select) you have to go a long way – from qualifying matches to the world Cup. Development with a special card for strategic and tactical schemes is, of course, important (and it is), but the main thing that allows this and no other game - to become a coach, family coach for athletes. Each of them can (and should) speak at training sessions and before matches, to comfort, to cheer. Have to communicate with the press – because public opinion about your team is an important element of the game.

The gameplay is thoroughly impossible to describe – he's too diverse, and the avaricious schemes and statistical tables are replaced by the striking matches, to participate in that, however, we will not be able to do that giving some indirect commands in the course and producing a replacement. And here it should be noted that the graphics in this game match – just gorgeous, with different angles, and even a hint of three-dimensionality; in any case, models, footballers, and even for the time, is just on the verge of fantasy.

Verdict – very, very ambitious game, of course, gorgeous, but not for everybody.

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Source: Archive.org, Mobygames.com

On the Ball

Genre:
Sports
Year:
1993
Publisher:
Ascon GmbH
Platform:
DOS
Developer:
Ascon GmbH
Gameplay:
Managerial / Business Simulation