Player Manager Kick Off 2 In 1990,
Kick Off 2 was released by Anco.
Kick Off 2 retains the pace and accuracy of
Kick Off, with a full size multi directional scrolling pitch and the players, markings, goals etc., in correct proportions. Both teams play the game strictly according to tactics. Players move into position to receive passes and gain possession. The ball, as in real game, travels ahead of the player. There is a league and a cup tournament with sudden death penalty shoot outs, in case of a draw. The teams in the league are on the whole evenly matched but with different styles of play and the player skills to match, that style. There is an option to load player's team from
Player Manager along with player's tactics, to play against another team in a single game or enter league and cup tournament. The special events selection in the main menu allows data disks to be loaded.
Kick Off 2 also provides the facility to change strip colours and on expanded
Atari ST's (1 MB or above) there are additional sound effects. The "Action Replay" facility allows goals to be viewed at normal pace or in "Slow Motion" and saved to disk. There are 24 referees and have their own distinctive temperaments.
Super Kick Off Super Kick Off is one of the follow-ups of
Kick Off and
Kick Off 2 for the
Master System,
Game Boy,
Mega Drive, and
Super Nintendo Entertainment System.
Super Kick Off was slower than the original games.
MegaTech gave the game 94% and a Hyper Game Award, saying that the "feel and playability is unrivalled by any other footy game so far", but criticising the high price of £45.
Goal! In 1992, a sequel,
Kick Off 3, was in development. The game wasn't released in this form though, as Dino Dini left Anco in 1992 for
Virgin Games, where he developed
Goal!, released in 1993.
Goal! featured similar gameplay to
Kick Off 2 but also added one-touch passing as seen in
Sensible Soccer, player acceleration, and more advanced menu systems and options.
Goal! received generally good reviews but did not enjoy the same lasting popularity as
Kick Off 2.
Kick Off 3 In 1994, Anco released
Kick Off 3 developed by Steve Screech, a totally new game with nothing in common with
Kick Off 2. The game did not receive as good reviews as its predecessors and did not gain the same popularity. An
Atari Jaguar port was in development but never released.
Kick Off 96, 97 & 98 In 1996, Toka Nono released
Kick Off 96 for
Amiga and
Windows. The game received average reviews. In 1997,
Kick Off 97 was released for Windows. The game received better reviews than
Kick Off 96 but still did not become popular. Later the same year, Anco released
Kick Off 98 for the PC which received poor reviews. In 1998
Kick Off World was released for the original
PlayStation, again developed by Toka and published by Funsoft.
Kick Off 2002 In 2001, Steve Screech started a project called
Ultimate Kick Off with the help of an early established Kick Off Association. The game was built using the
Gamebryo engine, released by Anco in 2002 for
PC and
Mac with the name
Kick Off 2002. The game received poor reviews and only sold 5000 copies, despite being published by Acclaim and a 15€ pricetag. Later a sequel called
Kick Off 2004 was planned. It reached beta status but was never released. The project ended when Anco closed in 2003.
Kick Off Revival A new entry in the series, with a control system designed for the use with an
analog stick,
Kick Off Revival, was released in June 2016 for
PlayStation 4 with poor reviews from the main game websites.
PlayStation Vita version was released nine months later in 2017 with bad reviews. A PC version is available on
Steam.
Kick Off Online Kick Off 2 Online(KOOL) is an online soccer game based on the second game in the series for Windows.
Kick Off 2 Online is written by Steve Camber with permission from Dino Dini. == Games in the series ==