Now I've gone back to the first set I bought when the game came out, 2009-2010 EPL.
I bought a newer edition of it last year along with the 2017-2018 French Ligue 1 and played the heck out of it. Herson's made vast improvements in the instructions and the quality of the components. Like FLG8R said, it stumbled out of the gate. I bought this game when it first came out. Eventually I will.Īny other questions you have, someone here will be glad to try and answer. I have been meaning to break mine out and continue a replay, but I have been meaning to do a lot of things. I know the company feels strongly about it as an offering (after the core baseball and football products), but they simply can't offer every league in the world, or many retro sets because of the lack of good data the farther back you go, and, probably, some licensing challenges. I rarely see action on the secondary market for this game and its components. (Why even take Tunisia, for instance, out of the envelope?)
There are also UCL sets and great (World Cup) squads and World Cup sets, but they seem to be based on the small samples of just the year's competition itself, so I do not trust them or see the point. (COVID did mess some things up, admittedly, so how much of this is an aberration is an open question.) They have, over time, offered complete sets of seasons from Europe's main leagues plus MLS, but some have not sold particularly well and have been dropped from the catalog over time. I think the game comes with the UEFA Champions League semifinal teams from the year before. There are basic rules and optional ones, and Mark has done yeoman's work tinkering with things to improve its playability, but if you are not one who enjoys getting under the hood, you certainly don't have to.
It does a pretty decent job of approximating the feel and flow of soccer, though, as Mark will tell you, it can use a little customization in places to work better. It has been vastly improved since an awkward launch a decade ago.
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