Footballer of the Year 2

Fed up with football (soccer) management games, with all the match strategies, financial turmoil and prima donna players? This game offers a unique twist, leaving you ‘managing’ the career of a single player, involving matches and transfers. You start with 10 ‘goal cards’ – up to 3 can be played in each match, each of them giving you a shooting chance, at which point arcade action skill comes in. The action sequences involve studying a move plan on the chalkboard, then getting into the right position to execute the final shot. Fail to score enough goals and you may lose your place in the team; do especially well and you may gain a transfer up the league. The better you perform, the higher your wages are, the more chance you have of a big-money transfer and international call-up, and the less chance you have of being dropped from the team. There’s also a trivia section, which asks increasingly difficult questions allowing you to go double or nothing on knowing the answers – up to £8000 a time can be won on this.