Go on the links with EA Sports' PGA TOUR '98. The game features five championship courses: the exclusively licensed Pebble Beach Golf Links, The Bay Hill Club, TPC of Scottsdale, Colonial Country Club, and TPC at Sawgrass. Each course has been designed using actual blueprints of the real courses, resulting in amazingly realistic graphics. Every hole features the real characteristics and surroundings of the real thing, including trees on the fairways, sloping hills, huge bunkers, and tricky greens. Compete as or against 14 PGA Tour pros, including Mark O'Meara, Lee Janzen, Davis Love III, and Brad Faxon. All 14 pros' swings and unique post-shot reactions were digitized into the game to give you the most realistic golf experience imaginable.
Actua Soccer 2 or sometimes Actua Soccer 98 due to its capitalization on the 1998 FIFA World Cup was one of the many football titles released to capitalize on the 1998 World Cup, and once again included national teams, but a more polished engine (optimized in the PC version for 3D graphics cards), (in some versions) the full Italian Serie A league, and a new "scenario" mode assured good sales and mostly positive reviews. It also included a team creator mode, which enabled the player to make up to 128 custom teams. Barry Davies was joined by Trevor Brooking on the commentary, and the game featured England football team captain and striker Alan Shearer not only on the cover, but also providing interviews about the game in the press. Michael Owen and Simon Tracey provided motion capture for the players. The game also featured menu music and a cameo appearance from Welsh rockers, Super Furry Animals, which could only be activated after entering a cheat code. Actua Soccer 2 was also bundled with Creative Technology's Vo
NHL POWERPLAY '98 offers all the NHL teams. Not only are real NHL teams with real NHL players available, but several Olympic teams also make an appearance. The graphics are also one of the many strong points here polygonal player models move exceptionally well and possess some realistic animations, including high-sticking swipes and some hard-hitting body checks. Basically, if you've seen it in a real NHL game, chances are you'll see it in NHL POWERPLAY '98. You can also take on a friend in the Versus mode to see who's the king of the ice.
As Interplay's first PlayStation football game under the VR Sports label, Jimmy Johnson's VR Football '98 offers both NFL and NFLPA licenses for real teams and players. Choose from 30 NFL teams with rosters reflecting the 1997 season, five of the greatest teams from the '70s, five from the '80s, five from the '60s, or five All-Pro Teams from 1996 and 1997.
You can also create up to four preseason teams (plus one season team) and stock them with up to forty created players! The game features a Practice Mode, Preseason (which is an exhibition game), New Season and a Play Editor, allowing you to create your own offensive plays and save them to memory card (up to 24 plays can be saved for each block of space).
Season progress can be resumed through passwords or via memory card, which offers you a choice between a regular or advanced memory card season. Regular means you can trade and create players, but the trades will be automatic and the created players always appear on your team. The advanced option lets you p
J.League Dynamite Soccer 64 is a soccer game for the Nintendo 64. It was released only in Japan in 1997. The game has officially licensed players from Japan's J-League.
Fox Sports Golf 99 features six 3D courses for up to four players to compete on: Forest Downs, Orange Rock, Sunny Green Country Club, Kiawah Island (site of the 1997 World Cup of Golf), Oxfordshire in England (Benson & Hedges International Open), and Carnoustie Golf Links (home of the 1999 British Open). Players can also practice their pitching and putting techniques or work on their long game by having a whack at the driving range. A traditional triple click interface is used to execute each shot, and two commentators will call the action as you progress through the links: choose legendary announcer Peter Allis, Fox Sports Net's John Walls, or have both analyzing your game.
Hattrick is a football strategy game where players build and manage their team for the long term.
Players can develop their team through training, manage their finances, find new players on the transfer market, or start their own youth team to foster their own talents.
Players can compete against human managers in national leagues and cups, start in the lower divisions and try to climb their way up. They can also create private tournaments to play with friends.
Playcalling expert John Madden again licenses Electronic Arts' flagship football simulation. New features for 1998 include more advanced Quarterback functions such as the ability to play lob passes and adjust timing patterns, and more instinctive AI features to adjust as the match goes on. Squad features have also been advanced, with the opportunity to create plays and trade them.
Gameplay is much the same as the other editions, with the full season on offer as well as playoffs and the Superbowl. Everything is presented TV-style, with play-by-play analysis and reports. The contemporary NFL teams are joined by great squads of the past.
A SoundLink game using "糸井重里のバス釣りNo.1 (Itoi Shigesato no Bass Tsuri No.1)". Only players who own the "Bass Tsuri No.1" game can participate in the event, otherwise the player participates in the garbage-picking-up event. The players compete for total weight of five basses. 100 higher-ranking winners qualify for the final tournament. Shigesato Itoi, bass professional Kawabe, Ogimori Jyunko Hagimori, and Kyoko Koizumi appeared on the event.
Capcom Sports Club is a multi-sport arcade game that includes tennis, soccer, and basketball. Each of the games can be played either solo or against a second player.
Smash Stars - A knockout tennis tournament where the player takes control of a tennis player from one of sixteen countries. Each of the players have different strengths/weaknesses in eight different categories. A match only lasts for one set and the set begins at 4-4 and if necessary a tie-break has to be played.
Kick Stars - A knockout soccer tournament in which the player can choose between eight different countries. Each team has five players (a keeper and four field players) and a team type. These types/specialties are counter attackers, defense, balanced and offensive. A match is played over a span of two minutes (three in a two player match) and when the tournament is won a bonus match can be played against the Star team.
Dunk Stars - A knockout basketball tournament in which the player again has the choice of one of eight different coun
In 4-4-2 Soccer you'll need to bring all your leadership and football skills together. Control 25 attributes per player including strength, speed and skill that alter as you progress. The 4,000 real player names make up almost 80 international sides and over 180 club sides.
A bowling game not wanting for options. Play against 11 pro bowlers in six different tournaments, or try the league or practice modes. The size of the tournaments, the player's ball, the player's outfit, and even the oil pattern on the lane can be adjusted to suit your tastes.
Side Pocket 3 is a Japan-exclusive pocket billiards video game for the PlayStation and Sega Saturn. Like its predecessor, Side Pocket 2, it features the in-game likeness of a real-life professional pool player. In this case, it's JPBA member, Kyoko Sone.
Unlike the prior installments in the Side Pocket series, Side Pocket 3 renders the pool room environment with 3D polygons. In spite of this, the table can still be viewed in a traditional, top-down fashion.
Play modes consist of: story mode, training mode, trick game mode, and versus mode. Game variants include: eight ball, nine ball, rotation, 14.1 continuous, bowlliards, cutthroat, three ball, poker, pocket game, mitsudama, and yotsudama.