This Is Football 2002

This Is Football 2002 was licensed by FIFPro. While this meant all players in the game were licensed, the teams were not, with most of them being referred to by their hometown or other indicative names, such as Arsenal and Juventus being listed in the game as "Highbury" and "Turin" respectively. The game introduced a number of features unique to football games at the time, such as being able to make players deliberately dive (a feature described at the time as controversial). It also granted players the opportunity to deliberately foul with two-footed tackles. ==Release==

This Is Football 2002 was released in September 2001 to be the first football game released before Christmas prior to the release of the FIFA and Pro Evolution Soccer series of games. ==Reception==

This Is Football 2002 received "generally positive" reviews, according to review aggregator Metacritic. IGN gave it a 8.1/10 review praising its gameplay and graphics but criticised the sound effects of the crowd. The majority of reviews put the majority of the negatives down to the developers' inexperience of making football games compared to the longer-running rival franchises. Copa90 named it as one of their top 10 football games in history. ==References==