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Dreamcast
Strategy: Management
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| Also for: | PC | ||
| Viewed: | 2D Static screen | Genre: | Strategy: Management Sport: Football - Soccer |
| Arcade origin: | No | ||
| Developer: | IO Productions | Soft. Co.: | Smoking Gun |
| Publishers: | On Line
(GB) |
Released: | 4 May 2001
(GB) |
| Ratings: | 3+ | ||
| Accessories: | Visual Memory Card | ||
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Summary
The Sega Dreamcast, then: A storming piece of hardware with more than a handful of exceptionally handsome and playable games to go with it. Despite its premature demise, its place in gaming history, and gamers’ hearts, is assured. So what better way to sound the death knell than to dredge up the minority appeal non-hit title (console division). Giant Killers, a football management simulation, is the game that we all feared, but was inevitable. Not that it’s a bad game in itself (it’s not), it’s just that the Dreamcast should not have to play host to a game that is about as exciting as watching grass grow.
In Giant Killers, success comes through a combination of strategy, management, tactics and as every manager knows, a hefty slice of luck. To ease you into the game, the makers of Giant Killers have provided three levels of difficulty. On the easiest level, your chosen team will benefit from the appointment of a new chairman. He will make an extra £25 million available to buy new players. As well as the obvious benefit of a large cash injection, your new chairman will bring a lot of credibility to your club, and this will make it easier to attract players from other clubs. Medium difficulty means you will still receive a large amount of money, but two other clubs in your division will also announce that they have benefited from the same kind of cash injection. The most difficult level gives you only the basics and is the closest representation to the world of footy management. You will have to work within a budget appropriate to the size of the club you choose: go for the likes of Dagenham and Redbridge and you won’t have much money to spare. Choose a team that’s in the Premier League, and you won’t have to worry too much about wheeling and dealing to survive, unlike the precious Dreamcast itself.
Giant Killers is everything a football management sim should be, no more no less. It’s strictly one for fans of the genre and for the sparsely populated ‘DC-owning, footy-mad strategy fiend’ posse. Worth a look but it's hardly chart-bothering material.
In Giant Killers, success comes through a combination of strategy, management, tactics and as every manager knows, a hefty slice of luck. To ease you into the game, the makers of Giant Killers have provided three levels of difficulty. On the easiest level, your chosen team will benefit from the appointment of a new chairman. He will make an extra £25 million available to buy new players. As well as the obvious benefit of a large cash injection, your new chairman will bring a lot of credibility to your club, and this will make it easier to attract players from other clubs. Medium difficulty means you will still receive a large amount of money, but two other clubs in your division will also announce that they have benefited from the same kind of cash injection. The most difficult level gives you only the basics and is the closest representation to the world of footy management. You will have to work within a budget appropriate to the size of the club you choose: go for the likes of Dagenham and Redbridge and you won’t have much money to spare. Choose a team that’s in the Premier League, and you won’t have to worry too much about wheeling and dealing to survive, unlike the precious Dreamcast itself.
Giant Killers is everything a football management sim should be, no more no less. It’s strictly one for fans of the genre and for the sparsely populated ‘DC-owning, footy-mad strategy fiend’ posse. Worth a look but it's hardly chart-bothering material.
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