It's by no means easy, but very effective and spectacular if you pull it off. The only usable move (usable because you can see the ball coming and therefore have time to try for it) is the overhead kick. So as far as special moves go, there's little chance of putting together a lovely one-two or attempting to curve the ball around a defender and then run on to it -you've only got time to try to head the ball away or into goal. The opposition in Football Glory bears down on you all the time, and your only thought is to get the ball up the other end of the pitch and mount an attack of your own. Or at least they could if they worked properly. Back-heelers, one-two passes, overhead kicks, riding tackles, volleys, diving headers and power attacks to give a player that extra bit of oomph can all be brought into play to shake up the game. Where it does score over Sensi is with its catalogue of special moves. There seems to be an incredibly thin line between exactly the right amount of aftertouch and way too much, and Football Glory has too much. It's silly that you can be clear on goal with only the keeper to beat, and your gorgeously crafted curving shot will suddenly bend away from goal at the last possible moment. But Football Glory has gone the other way with far too much aftertouch. Now aftertouch is great - after Kick Off introduced it, every single football game since has attempted to hone it to perfection. (A slightly-longer-but-not-long-enough-to-be-a-shot tap does indeed get the ball to the other player, but instantly, which is off-putting and unrealistic.) In addition to this, the aftertouch is handled badly. But the implementation is inadequate - while Sensi handles passes by slipping the ball in the path of a player, a quick tap of the fire button in Football Glory leaves the ball falling short of its intended recipient so he has to circle around to pick it up. The strength of the mighty Sensi is in its passing, and Football Glory directly emulates its method of tapping the fire button for a pass, or holding it down for a shot. When it comes down to it, Football Glory is yet another average kickabout-in-the-park when compared to the Wembley Stadium of Sensible Soccer. Everywhere you turn, someone's been touting it as a Sensi-beater. You've seen all the preview screenshots, you've heard all the stupid stories about how this looks incredibly like Sensible Soccer (but apparently the programmers have never even seen Sensible Soccer), and you've also heard that this had loads more features than Sensible Soccer. Football Glory and Sensible Soccer, for example. The whole point in reviewing a game is to compare it with software already out there, and tell you what's what.
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