That's enough exclamation marks for the moment. World Cup '98 is the best football game I have ever played! Aside from the rather disappointing intro, you'd have trouble faulting it! If you like football, or football games, then go out and buy WC98 now! In fact, if you don't like football games, go out and buy this game now, you won't regret it! Instead all we get is a quick shot of Footix the World Cup '98 mascot and a few seconds of the aforementioned tune - shame on you, EA Sports! The loss of the tune probably has something to do with memory allocation, but it's a real pity, because it was the best intro I have ever seen in a Nintendo game! However, the new, current, finished and therefore final N64 version no longer includes this music and video masterpiece. If you've seen the PlayStation version of this game, then you'll understand. Anyone who read last issues preview of WC98 might remember the heavy praise heaped upon the intro sequence, which was an exciting, well-edited football montage sequence set to the pumping sounds of Chumbawamba's Tubthumping. And it's entitled, imaginatively enough, World Cup '98.
Which brings us to the latest footie game - the official World Cup '98 game in fact - for the N64. It seems that everyone's jumping on the band-wagon to become the official World Cup '98 something - we've got the official World Cup soft drink, the official World Cup beer, the official World Cup hot milky beverage, the official World Cup washing-up liquid. Now there's no escape, we're all doomed to suffer through the excessive football mania. Until someone came up with the first football game. It used to be the case that footballphobes- hard to believe I know, but not everyone loves football - could take refuge in their videogame consoles. it's that time of year again, when the television schedules go to hell and everyone gets really excited because England manage to get past the first round of the World Cup without getting eliminated. The BBC's World Cup Daily features Mark Chapman and Kelly Cates and - now that England has been knocked - they have turned their attention to France and Croatia.Sigh. Ryan O'Hanlon, Donnie Kwak and Micah Peters comprise the Ringer's soccer team and share their thoughts and reactions on the Ringer FC podcast. (For the record: CNET is a division of CBS.) World Cup podcasts Roger Gonzalez from CBS Sports has full coverage of all things World Cup, ESPN's Michael Cox does a great job of breaking down team tactics and the Fox Soccer Twitter page has loads of videos, player profiles and analysis. The official FIFA World Cup account is a good place to start, and you can use #FRA and #CRO for team-specific coverage. Want to sound smart with your fancy soccer friends? There are tons of statistical and strategic analysis to be found on Twitter alongside the usual hot takes and memes.
You can also find them all on the Fox Sports YouTube page, and most of the videos on YouTube include a few additional minutes of post-game coverage after the 90 seconds of highlights.
Fox has a highlight package for each game that condenses 90 minutes of play into 90 seconds of goals and near goals. I've been following the World Cup as any American who doesn't follow soccer might: by catching a half of a game here and a shootout there but primarily watching Fox's quick 90 in 90 highlight packages.
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