Football, Tactics & Glory

Football, Tactics & Glory
Developer(s)Creoteam
Publisher(s)
  • Creoteam
  • Toplitz
Designer(s)Andrey Kostyushko
Programmer(s)Anton Shekhovtsov
Artist(s)Sergey Savyak
Platform(s)
Release
  • Windows
    • WW: June 1, 2018
  • Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
    • WW: January 22, 2020
Genre(s)Sports
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

Football, Tactics & Glory is a sports video game developed by Creoteam. It combines traditional sports management games, role-playing video games, and turn-based tactics. Creoteam and Toplitz published it in 2018 for Windows. It was ported to consoles in 2020. In North America, it was released as Soccer, Tactics & Glory.

Gameplay

Players manage an association football team from they play in a sports league. Members of the team, who have generic names, can be customized like in role-playing games through skill trees,[1] and each character has a class.[2] Matches are played from a top-down perspective and are turn-based and tactical, though characters can act independently in some circumstances. Each match has a limited number of turns.[3]

Development

Creoteam, a development studio from Ukraine, originally included percentages that showed the chance of successfully performing a move, but they felt the resulting conservative gameplay caused matches to become boring. To encourage more dynamism, they removed the percentages.[4] Football, Tactics & Glory entered early access in June 2015 under the former title Football Tactics.[5] After being retitled,[3] the Windows version was released on June 1, 2018. The ports to Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One were released on January 22, 2020.[6]

Reception

Football, Tactics & Glory received mixed reviews on Metacritic.[7][8] Rock Paper Shotgun called it "beautifully engineered" and praised its streamlined gameplay, which they felt did not oversimplify the sport.[2] Despite initially finding the concept goofy, Polygon enjoyed the mashup of genres and called the resulting gameplay "a convincing simulation of soccer strategies".[1] Nintendo Life said it is "ugly to watch and completely lacking in any flair, but effective enough to get results".[9] GamesRadar, who included it in their list of best football games, recommended it to casual sports fans.[10]

References

  1. ^ a b Campbell, Colin (2018-07-02). "Turn-based soccer is (almost) as much fun as the World Cup". Polygon. Archived from the original on 2023-06-10. Retrieved 2023-06-11.
  2. ^ a b Stone, Tim (2018-06-22). "Wot I Think: Football, Tactics & Glory". Rock Paper Shotgun. Archived from the original on 2023-06-10. Retrieved 2023-06-11.
  3. ^ a b Kato, Matthew (2018-04-09). "The Sports Desk – A Tactical View". GamesRadar. Archived from the original on 2019-08-22. Retrieved 2023-06-11.
  4. ^ Stone, Tim (2018-06-29). "The Flare Path: Ukrainian Edition". Rock Paper Shotgun. Archived from the original on 2022-08-11. Retrieved 2023-06-11.
  5. ^ Purslow, Matt (2015-06-03). "Football Tactics scores an Early Access release". PCGamesN. Archived from the original on 2023-06-09. Retrieved 2023-06-11.
  6. ^ "Football, Tactics & Glory". Gamepressure. Archived from the original on 2022-06-12. Retrieved 2023-06-11.
  7. ^ "Football, Tactics & Glory (PC)". Metacritic. Archived from the original on 2023-02-13. Retrieved 2023-06-11.
  8. ^ "Football, Tactics & Glory (Switch)". Metacritic. Archived from the original on 2020-06-09. Retrieved 2023-06-11.
  9. ^ Scullion, Chris (2020-01-26). "Soccer, Tactics & Glory Review (Switch)". Nintendo Life. Archived from the original on 2022-10-02. Retrieved 2023-06-11.
  10. ^ Donnelly, Joe (2022-11-04). "The best football games dominating the digital dugout". GamesRadar. Archived from the original on 2022-11-15. Retrieved 2023-06-11.