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Sensible Soccer 2006 comes complete with lightning-fast football action, mesmerizing dribbling, physic-defying slide tackles, and a huge amount of unbelievable goals, thanks to outrageous levels of aftertouch. Sensible Soccer 2006 returns with a modern take on its trademark zoomed-out camera and intuitive control system, which delivers total 360-degree control over your players' kicks and movement. The game has a distinctive new graphical style, which includes cel-shaded players with the classic enlarged heads. Sensible Soccer 2006 includes over 350 international and European club teams, 50 preset and custom leages, cup and trophy competitions, and seriously fun gameplay.

This demo lets you play a match between England and Argentina.

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Editor's review of Sensible Soccer 2006

The whole point of Sensible Soccer is to simplify the controls yet retain the complexity of prettier soccer games, and the 2006 version continues the tradition. The gameplay borders on frenetic, and three main buttons control most of the action. A small investment learning how to play will lead to unlimited 10-minute games of soccer between Argentina and England.

Unlike other popular soccer games, there aren't any one-button fakes or fancy step-over moves. Instead, the players are completely controlled by the directional keys or joystick plus a "Sprint" button that uses a limited amount of boostable energy. The cartoon kitsch might have seemed funny at some point, but the misshapen, lumpy heads are a bit annoying. There is very little in-game help, so you should look over the brief read-me file before playing.

Despite minor annoyances, as in any good sports game there's a decent learning curve in Sensible Soccer 2006 that makes it enjoyable to improve. You'll appreciate the game more after you can direct your passes and bend your shots effectively. Unfortunately, the demo doesn't allow any customization of the difficulty, so newcomers to the genre may be quickly overwhelmed by the default playing speed.

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  Sensible Soccer 2006

  Great Game

  by: ecmrwings on 29-Jun-2006 11:28:19 AM

  Pros: Very fun and its addicting.

  Cons: Hard to score

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  Sensible Soccer 2006

  A welcome blast from the past

  by: CRADOCK on 07-Jun-2006 05:47:18 AM

  Pros: I may be slightly biased in my review, as the sensible soccer series (especially SWOS) was one of my favourite games to play on the Amiga, but this update of a classic is fantastic. You really don't have to be a football fan to enjoy this game.

  The cartoon style graphics of the players, complete with giant heads, works well.

  The genius of sensible soccer lies in its simplicity. With only three buttons available for all actions in the game (i.e. shooting, passing, crossing, sprinting, heading and tackling) it makes playing both intuitive and simple to pick up. A game for all ages, I think.

  Cons: In SWOS you could go to practically any country in the world, purchase any player you wante and assemble a fantastic football team. I'm not sure that you can do this in this version. I could be wrong though!

  Maybe a bit slower than previous versions.

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  Sensible Soccer 2006

  GOOD SOCCER GAME

  by: nizall on 26-Aug-2006 05:00:45 AM

  Pros: BEST OF ALL

  Cons: NO NETWORK PLAY

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  Sensible Soccer 2006

  Malware!??

  by: Sitanshu Nandan on 02-Oct-2007 01:00:56 AM

  Cons: My Nod32 detected it as an adware as I tried to download it.

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  Sensible Soccer 2006

  like it said. Simple. MY RECORD IS 10-0 with ENGLAND. BEAT THAT

  by: wudioo on 25-Jul-2006 01:48:25 PM

  Pros: simple. Fun and addictive. controls are like pass, shoot, and the directional buttons.

  Cons: too simple?

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