Graeme Coleman is the composer this time, and maybe he did so for the more advanced versions and the conversion to Mega Drive didn’t go too well. Amusingly Jason doesn’t appear to be present in the game though, either for Ireland or Liverpool, so I guess he is still just standing in for A. As befits a game with real players, it’s a little more recognisable than last time, at least in that I successfully identified Jason McAteer from a low-res preview of the cover – the green shirt and mid-’90s boyband haircut combo being a giveaway. A lot more people still had those consoles, though, so it’s the version which looks and plays the same which is the one which did best.Īn action shot of Jason McAteer of the Republic of Ireland trying to get past Frank de Boer (Netherlands, Defender, Skill 80) to get to the ball. The Sega Saturn and PlayStation versions of FIFA 96 saw the debut of a 3D approach, and it’s easy to theorise that the energy went there leaving the Mega Drive and SNES versions to be quick rehashes. Differences from FIFA Soccer 95 are superficial. Pretty much everything, at least on the Mega Drive.

The step from playing out something which might happen in a match between Manchester United and Liverpool to playing out an action which Eric Cantona might do is a significant one in the level of recognition it can evoke. Nonetheless, this change is critical to FIFA’s appeal to football fans and to being able to sell yearly updates, and keeping up to date will only get more important over time. And if the Premier League is representative, it was a season out of date by the time it came out. Well, outside of the US league where they’re still made up. Rather than teams filled with imaginary people, FIFA Soccer 96 takes the crucial step of representing real players. FIFA Soccer 96 for the Mega Drive has one key change, if not many others… FIFA Soccer 96 (Extended Play/Electronic Arts, Mega Drive, 1995)Īs discussed with FIFA Soccer 95, I’m applying the same set of questions to every FIFA game to better demonstrate the gradual evolution of the series.

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