Four songs from The Crystal Method are included – 'More', 'Now Is the Time', ' Keep Hope Alive' and ' Busy Child' – as well as a song by Electric Skychurch entitled 'Hugga Bear'. The theme music for the game was Blur's ' Song 2'. The Windows, PlayStation, Nintendo 64, and Saturn versions of FIFA 98 correct this so that the game only awards a free kick for offside if the ball is passed roughly to where the player in the offside position is. In previous games, when a player was in an offside position doing anything except running, that player was penalised for offside even when the ball was passed backwards.

The game also features a five-a-side indoor mode and was the first FIFA game to contain an in-game player/team editor.įor the first time in a FIFA game, the offside rule is properly implemented. In addition, 11 leagues are featured, containing 189 clubs. Players have individual faces.įIFA 98 features many accurate team rosters, including national reserves for national call-up when playing in the round-robin qualification modes. No subsequent edition of the FIFA series attempted to replicate FIFA 98 's inclusion of every FIFA national team, until 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa, which included all 199 FIFA nations that took part in qualifying. The game includes an official soundtrack, team and player customisation options, 16 stadiums, improved artificial intelligence and the Road to World Cup mode, with all 172 FIFA-registered national teams that took part in qualification for the 1998 FIFA World Cup (including Brazil and France, who qualified for the tournament automatically as holders and hosts respectively). FIFA 98 was the last FIFA game released for the Sega Genesis, Sega Saturn and the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES).

A number of different players were featured on the cover, including David Beckham in the UK, Roy Lassiter in the United States, Mexico and Brazil, David Ginola in France, Raúl in Spain and Portugal, Paolo Maldini in Italy, and Andreas Möller in Germany. It is the fifth game in the FIFA series and the second to be in 3D on the fifth generation of video game consoles.

Single player, multiplayer, multiplayer onlineįIFA: Road to World Cup 98 (commonly abbreviated to FIFA 98) is a football simulation video game developed by EA Canada and released by Electronic Arts in 1997.

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