By Dave James
All is right with the world again. Dino Dini is back making football games. The legendary game developer who created the classic Kick Off franchise back in the 80s is now returning to bring Kick Off Revival exclusively to PlayStation.
The new, top-down arcade footie game has today been announced on the PlayStation Blog, coming to the PlayStation 4 and PS Vita next year.
For the uninitiated the Kick Off games of the 16-bit era redefined the way football was represented in gaming thanks to the revolutionary way the ball interacted with the players. It was the game which begat Sensible Soccer.
Where previously – and still today – the ball would always magnetically stick to the foot of a player, in Dino Dini’s games you actually had to be skillful enough to manoeuvre your little computer person around the ball, shepherding it towards the goal.
It was tough to get used to, but made for seriously frantic, epic, hopelessly addictive one-on-one footie battles.
In the push towards greater graphical realism, bigger budgets, fully licensed teams and all the legal woes that entails, the smaller developers, like Dini, struggled in the new era.
Let’s call it a comeback!
But now it’s making a comeback and as …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Gaming
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