All the above niggles have been addressed to varying degrees and. Yep, FIFA 99 is even better than World Cup 98, and that really is saying something.
The result is a faster, smoother and even more playable game than before. They've looked long and hard at their best-selling World Cup game and listened to the feedback and criticisms that were levelled at WC98. It may be only a few months since World Cup 98 was released, but the developers have been beavering away on FIFA 99 since the end of last year. Why the hell did the ball fly off the pitch when you tried to retrieve it from close to the sideline?
The AI - the weak point of so many football games - was still often questionable, especially where the goalkeepers were concerned. The hundreds of motion-captured moves meant the players' actions might have been more realistic, but uninterruptible animations meant you didn't always feel in total control. Despite the introduction of a variable speed feature, it still wasn't as smooth as Gremlin's Actua Soccer.
