Actua Soccer

Actua Soccer (VR Soccer in North America) is a sports video game developed and published by Gremlin Interactive for MS-DOS, PlayStation, Sega Saturn.

Actua Soccer
Developer(s)Gremlin Interactive
Publisher(s)
SeriesActua Sports
Platform(s)MS-DOS, PlayStation, Sega Saturn
ReleaseMS-DOS
  • EU: 1995
  • NA: 31 March 1996
PlayStation
  • EU: March 1996
  • NA: 31 October 1996
Sega Saturn
  • EU: 1996
  • NA: 30 November 1996
Genre(s)Sports
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

This was the first sports video game to include a full 3D graphics engine. For the animations of the players, 3 players of the club Sheffield Wednesday served as motion capture models.[1][2]

Actua Soccer contains only 44 national teams, each containing 22 players.[2] However, in 1996 a new version containing clubs was released: Actua Soccer: Club Edition. It contained 20 Premier League teams from the 1996/1997 season.[2] It became a best seller in Europe, mainly in the United Kingdom.

Sales

The game has sold more than 1 million copies for MS-DOS and PlayStation by June 1997.[3]

References
  1. Parada, Jaime. "Actua Soccer (1995)". Insert Coin (in Spanish). Retrieved 4 November 2019.
  2. Langshaw, Mark (27 September 2014). "Actua Soccer retrospective: Put one past the mighty FIFA in 1995". Digital Spy. London: Hearst UK. Retrieved 4 November 2019.
  3. Webster, Garrick (June 22, 1997). "UK games without frontiers". The Observer. Retrieved August 15, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
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