WorthPlaying reviews in the unusual style of a letter to the game. It begins:
"Dear Speedball 2,
We had some fun back in the early '90s, didn't we? You, me and an Atari ST. I was a gamer, even back then, and you … well, you were the most amusingly violent sports game there's ever been, with the possible exception of Mutant League Hockey. We spent a lot of time together - two teams of nine men matched up against each other, with a host of power-ups, and no rules when it came to injuries. You even awarded points for injuring members of the opposing team!
Why, everyone had a favorite method of playing with you. Some would rack up a huge multiplier and then go for the goal at the end of a match, while others would head straight for the Electro-Ball and fry the goalkeeper, sending the ball bowling into it in the same shot. Me, I always favored outright violence, beating down every single player along the way to the goal. But then, somehow, lots of other games came along, and you kind of faded into the background, until we eventually drifted apart entirely."
The Independent: "The single greatest sporting videogame ever created."
"The single greatest sporting videogame ever created."
I second that :)
winning a match 300/400 - 0 is fun (especially when the points are from physically beating the team >:) )
I remember Speedball 1. I'm pretty sure if this gmae got a remake then it would be Esport worthy.
Neocrisis: The Bitmap Brothers classic futuristic sports game will be going live on Sony Playstation 3 and PSP next week as a Minis game.
We all love a good game – if we didn’t then we wouldn’t be here now, on this site, am I right? Well like all good things video games “came” from somewhere. From those early days of pubescent sweat infused bedrooms. From the fledgling start-ups trying their utmost to get financial backing from anyone other than their parents before their company sank. All these classic games that formed the foundations for the massive multi-billion pound/dollar industry we see today had one thing in common – the dedicated people behind them.
