You still love your football (or soccer, if that’s the term you prefer) now, but sometimes you would love to revisit and relive the good ole days of the late 80s, when Germany still had a West and East and there was still a Soviet Union. And you don’t just want to watch, but you actually want to participate in the game. World Soccer Challenge is up to the, well, challenge of giving you this football/soccer experience through your mobile device.

This game has actually been inspired by “classic” football games like Sensible Soccer™, Kick Off™ and Championship Manager™. But if you really want to do classic, you can go as far back as the 1986 tournament in Mexico. You can choose from among 196 national teams (although some will only be unlocked in the pro version) and you can choose from 3 levels of difficulty for each session. You can play in 8 international cups and choose from 8 world class managers to help guide your team.

World Soccer Challenge uses retro pixel art graphics in keeping with the nostalgia theme. And speaking of which, you will be able to see illustrations of most famous (and infamous) moments in football history, like Diego Maradona’s Hand of God goal as well as Zidane’s head butt in the 2006 tournament. The gameplay itself though is pretty intuitive, if you’ve played a lot of football mobile games.

You can download World Soccer Challenge from the Google Play Store for free. There are in-app purchases available, including an upgrade to the Pro version which has more teams and managers. Since this game obviously doesn’t have the license to use actual players and managers, expect a lot of “misspelled” names, which is actually funny and could be fun.

SOURCE: Gamasutra

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