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Sensible World of Soccer '96/'97

DOS - 1996
Also released on: Amiga

This 95/96 version is an update of the classic Sensible Soccer action-oriented soccer game, this version sports sharper graphics, updated teams information, and more weather conditions you can choose from.

As in the original, SWOS delivers a furious action on the pitch, with intuitive controls of tiny players that allow curve balls and bicycle kicks. Choose from a staggering number of league and national teams to compete in major tournaments. Highly recommended! And if you love the game, be sure to check out SWOS 96/97, the best game in the series -- also on this site, of course ;)

Review By HOTUD

Comments and reviews

gamer 19 Feb. 2021

the best football game

1
AFC1903 29 Apr. 2018

Best football game ever.

4
Tachyon666 12 Mar. 2018

great to experience an old game

0
Retro Lover 1492 11 Nov. 2017

BEST SOCCER VIDEO GAME EVER MADE. ENOUGH SAID...

4
Mick 30 Oct. 2017

Brilliant gameplay. Trial players could occassionally be wirth 4.5 milllion. Great for working your ways through the leagues :)

2
D. Norton 86 16 Sep. 2016

This game is by far the best of of Sensible Soccer series. It is also probably the BEST SOCCER GAME EVER (alongside Tehkan World Cup, Kick Off 2, Virtua Soccer, Pro Evolution 17 and FIFA 2000). It was the FIRST EVER to have CAREER MODE !!! Moreover, the gameplay is exciting, entertaining and addictive, so watch out ! :)
It may be what we call "user friendly" (easy) but still, it does not lack of agony, suspense and competitiveness. It works perfect on both Dos and Amiga, I can't really choose. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED TO THOSE WHO LOVE SOCCER AND FUN !!

2
Moobeepbeep 25 Aug. 2016

Nice to see this game again. WOW... Thankyou ever so much for the download.

0
Reyce 10 Aug. 2016

*REVIEW*

In all, Sensible World Of Soccer 96-97 is an okay video game… if it was released 3 or 4 years before it actually was. In the year of its launch, the Sensible games were already slowly slipping away into the night. Now, it’s not really worth the look in or any of your time unless you were a hardcore fan off the Sensible Soccer series in general. I don’t have anything awful to say really, but I don’t have anything positive either. It’s just like the 96-97 Tottenham Hotspur team I talked about above, not all that shit, but not all that good. A team not to be confused with modern spurs under any circumstances.

Full Review:
http://cooldownpodcast.com/reviews/reyces-retro-reviews/sensible-world-soccer-96-97/

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Dávid 28 Dec. 2015

good

-1
tony 10 Jul. 2015

the best game

0
Joshua 08 May. 2015

I remember rushing back home after school to play this game...
Jari Litmanen used to triple its price and Parma offered millions every season.

2
chrishaslam 17 Sep. 2014

Hi can I down load this on my Samsung galaxy 3 ??

-9
Lacrosse 20 Aug. 2014

Are you aware there are Swos communities who play swos online via P2P and server?
Here is one: www.swosit.com

2
rhymo 29 Jul. 2014

i was "managing" with this game as recently as a few months ago. i never actually played matches with this game. just manage and simulate results.

one of the big glitches was that when you went bought a player from the starting xi of another team, and then you looked at the simulated results of that league, the team you bought the player from would finish last and be relegated.

then checking in on the next season, you would see that team basically finish first in the 2nd division and things would be back to normal after that.

-2
Robbie Mustoe 29 Jun. 2014

I just back this. Pixel Soccer its called. Looks good. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/305787134/pixel-soccer

1
Lotus 29 Apr. 2014

best soccer game ever!

1
J-Bolt 02 Apr. 2014

This could bring back a lot of memories!

-1
cross 26 Feb. 2014

The best ever game of the 1995....i could believe every i woke up and came back from school just to open my pc and play this every day....

Hassan Nader
Gabriel Bautista
Mendoza brothers lol

1
Sensible Soccer 26 Nov. 2013

Best.Game.Ever

1
cyhn 25 Nov. 2013

win 7 ?

1
surfer 18 Nov. 2013

Long live SWOS

0
Reacher 10 Nov. 2013

Weird, I thought Fifa international, fifa 95, 96,97,98 and 99 were the fifas of the nineties. I used to have this game on the amiga.

0
wsk 02 Oct. 2013

one of the best soccer games ever!!!

0
buttter 25 Jul. 2013

Best

0
LCCL 24 Jun. 2013

The best game of de world :

0
Mad4Red 31 May. 2013

The BEST game ever :))) spend milions of hour on it :)

0
abandonia reviewer 14 Apr. 2013

this is the fifa of the 90s

0
Jaz 25 Feb. 2013

Played the game ages ago! And just want to play it again!

0
cangeza 09 Feb. 2013

its amazing

0
kool 15 Jan. 2013

good game pals

0
Boris 12 Nov. 2012

Oh my goodness! I used to play this all the time. The game play was unbelievable. I'm looking forward to playing this again. Thank you.

0
omadav311 05 Nov. 2012

best soccer game ever, no doubt about it. None of the "new" games, with all the graphics and stuff have came even close to SWOS

0
Swos rules 09 Oct. 2012

Easily the best football game ever. :)

4
Pauliewaulus 14 Sep. 2012

This game is still my favourate football game ever. The fact its 16 years old and FIFA 13 have only just started to use some of the features this game had is a testament on how well it was made. Game play was easy transfers very very innovative in cash plus player etc options, the choice of literally thousands of teams any were in the world,and job offers from other clubs makes this game innovative easy to play and so much fun. Now if

0
Marty Rock 13 Aug. 2012

Can't get usb controller to work... Any advice please? I've changed game settings to joystick = true but no joy..

0
Robbie 28 Jun. 2012

Use D-fend

0
shraga 09 Jun. 2012

AWESOME!!!

0
shraga 09 Jun. 2012

i downloaded but windows 7 wont let me install or open the files, help plz anyone? :)

1
freddie 07 Jun. 2012

Pure class footy sim!

-1
a 23 May. 2012

thanks

0
GreekFreekickerz 14 Apr. 2012

Mmmm...

0
Ahha 11 Feb. 2012

soccerman

0
mymoon 31 Jan. 2012

Used to play it on the amiga for months. I still do sometimes. One of the best soccer games ever if not the best.

0
DariO 10 Sep. 2011

Classic :)

0

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Extras

Manual Manual 1
Extra file
DOS 87 MB English English

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