2002 · Anco · Association football · Sports

Kick Off 2002

KickOff 2002 brings arcade-style gaming action to the most popular sport on Earth! Go for the goal in this incredible new soccer game!

Released: 31 December 2002
Platforms: Windows macOS
Genres: Association football Sports
Developers: Anco
Publishers: Acclaim
Modes: Multiplayer Single-player
Perspective: Bird view / Isometric
Age ratings: PEGI 3

About

The Kick Off franchise is a series of football simulation video games created by Dino Dini. Kick Off was published by Anil Gupta's publishing house Anco Software for the Atari ST and Commodore Amiga. First released in 1989, Kick Off was well-received and won awards.

After the release of Kick Off several sequels were released. Player Manager was released in 1990. The game was the first game to combine a management environment (including tactics, league play, transfers, and detailed player attributes) with a football game engine (based on that of Kick Off). Kick Off 2 was released in 1990 as a sequel to Kick Off. The game introduced a number of new features as well as several small alterations.

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Gameplay

With Kick Off the ball did not stick to the player's feet but instead was realistically kicked ahead from the players. This added a degree of difficulty and skill requirement at the same time. Other attributes, such as action replays, players with different characteristics, different tactics, fouls, yellow cards, red cards, injuries, injury time and various referees with different moods are also featured.

Development

Kick Off was released in 1989. Kick Off was first developed for the Atari ST and then ported to the Amiga. Several expansion disks were released for Kick Off 2. In 1992, Dino Dini left Anco and signed a contract for Virgin Games, which released Goal!

in 1993. Anco released Kick Off 3 in 1994. The game used a side view instead of a top-down view and bore little resemblance to Kick Off 2 apart from the name. Anco Software published the first versions of Kick Off for the Amiga and Atari ST.