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Not only has Millennium unleashed the rather excellent Wild Cup Soccer this month, but it has also decided to let the A1200 owners of the world in on the smashing Brutal Sports Football - the game that takes the national pastime of the US, and throws in more than a little violence. Basically, there are no rules in this game. Just get the ball into your opponent’s goal, and if that means you have to punch, kick, slam or rip your opponents to pieces to get there, well that is just part of the game.
At the start of the game you can choose whether to play as part of a league, in a World-Cup style championship or just a sequence of ‘unfriendlies’ – more or less the same sort of thing you would expect to find in any sports simulation.
Select your team, set the venue and you are into the game itself, and this is where the character that has made the game sell so well comes into play. It is a great-looking game, and the sight of futuristic Vikings swinging axes, knives at each other around a modern sports arena is quite an addictive one.

Brutal Soccer is a surprisingly violent game, hence the name, and the amount of blood and carnage left dotted around the pitch by half-time is enough to have even the strongest constitutions twitching. Like Wild Cup Soccer, this is not the smoothest or fastest game in the world to play, but then you do not really mind after a while because the game itself is so good. After a couple of goes you get so worked up about decapitating your opponent and smashing them against walls that the technical side of the game stops being a problem.

I do not think this will ever be a classic, but it is still a lot of fun, and the addition of 256 colour graphics just makes it that little better.
Tony Dillon

Title Brutal Sports Football AGA
Game Type Sport
Players 1-2
Compatibility AGA only
Submission Isaac Abraham

Review
Initally called BeastBall, this was one of the first AGA only games to come
out, and it`s not a bad little number, either. In that classic SpeedBall 2
mould, the object is to score more goals than your opponent, whilst kicking
the stuffing out of him/ her also.

Brutal Sports stays firmly on the violence first, football second side of
things, which is a good thing - at least it has gone one way or the other,
not sat on the fence like SB2 did. Another difference with SB2 is that this
one is viewed side on, instead of vertically, with nice big sprites.
The game has few options, you can opt for a one player league (quickly gets
boring) or a two player "unfriendly". This is my sort of game - at least
it doesn`t waste time with false pretenses! The game begins with the ball
being placed in the centre of the field, and that`s when the fun begins. You
control the player on your team nearest to the ball, and once you have the
ball, can either pass it short or hoof it long, in some sort of attempt to
score a goal. At the same time, you can try to tackle your enemy if he`s got
possession - either a rugby-like flying tackle, which knocks them off their
feet immediately, or a solid punch in the gob can be used - this is harder
to do, but is more powerful. Also, if you find an enemy crouching on the
ground, you can kick him up the arse and then stomp on him indefinitely!!!
Yep, BSF is certainly violent, to the point of being able to punch an
opponents head off at one point (and then mistake it for the football and
kick it away!).

Like SB2, powerups litter the pitch, and although they are not particularly
varied, they do enough to add a little spice to the game, such as the speed
ups, swords, shields, and knuckledusters.

Like most of these games, they`re best played with two or more, and are
quickly boring with one person, even with a league option. Two people can
have a right laugh, especially during injury time, when the ball disappears
and you must simply kill your opponents before they get to you.
Right. Summing up then, BSF certainly isn`t a fantastic game. I wouldn`t pay
25 quid for it, but if you see it in a bargain box, and have a friend to
play it with, I say buy it, I reckon it`s well worth it.