{"title":"Football (Soccer)","description":"\u003cp\u003eFootball has been a video game for almost as long as video games have been able to show two teams and a ball. The arcade cabinets of the mid-eighties squeezed an entire World Cup into a few minutes of play, the home computer era turned it into a proper genre through Match Day, Kick Off and Sensible Soccer, and by the early nineties the licensed simulations had arrived and never left. The sport translates unusually well. It runs continuously rather than in turns, it is played by two sides with clearly defined roles, and a single moment of skill or misjudgement can settle ninety minutes of everything else.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe genre splits along a line that has been there since the beginning. On one side sit the simulations, which model formations, player attributes, stamina and the offside rule, and which tend to live or die on their licences and the depth of their career modes. On the other sit the arcade games, which keep the shape of the sport and discard whatever slows it down, favouring short matches, exaggerated shooting and someone sitting next to you. Most football games land somewhere between the two, and share the same furniture regardless: a squad rated across attack, midfield and defence, a formation you commit to before kickoff, a tournament or league structure to work through, and a scoreline close enough that the last minute usually matters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis collection gathers the titles in our catalog that carry the Football (Soccer) tag, from pixel-art kickabouts to full league simulations. If you have ever gone a goal down, looked at the clock and started pushing your defenders forward anyway, start here.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"pixel-cup-soccer-17-pc-mac-linux-steam-digital-download","title":"Pixel Cup Soccer 17","description":"\u003cp class=\"lead\"\u003ePixel Cup Soccer 17 keeps the part of football that makes people shout at a screen and quietly drops the rest. Two teams, a ball, and a shot button that rewards nerve over mashing. BATOVI Games built it to be understood in about a minute and argued over for a great deal longer than that.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eOne Minute to Learn, Much Longer to Master\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe controls are deliberately small: move, pass, shoot. What sits underneath them is not. Holding the shot button charges the strike and lets you aim it while the power builds, so the difference between a goal and a ball into row Z is a decision you make in about half a second. Lobs lift over a keeper who has come too far off his line, a dash buys the yard of space you need to get the shot away, and corner kicks and throw-ins are placed by hand rather than handed to the computer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eSeven Competitions and a Penalty Shootout\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThree play modes carry the whole game. Friendly Match is the quick one, Penalty Kicks strips everything down to nerve from twelve yards, and Competitions is where a run actually means something.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe World Cup and the Women’s World Cup take you through a group stage and out the other side, with the standings table updating after every result and the knockout bracket narrowing until only one side is left.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCopa America Centenario and European Cup 2016 recreate two continental summers, each with its own field of nations to pick from and its own trophy sitting at the end of a short, unforgiving run of matches.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Pixel Cups for men and women, the Pixel League and the Pixel Tournament fill out the cabinet with the game’s own invented competitions, including a league season long enough to punish a bad month rather than a bad afternoon.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEvery side comes rated across attack, midfield, defense and goalkeeping, and you set the formation before kickoff. Choosing a five at the back and grinding out a one nil is as legitimate a route to the trophy as picking the strongest team on the list.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eBest Played With Someone Beside You\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSingle player against the computer is the training ground. The game comes alive with a second person in the room: head to head on a shared screen, or Party Mode carrying two players through an entire competition together. Full controller support means a pair of pads and one display is the whole setup, and Steam Remote Play Together stretches the couch to a friend in another city when it has to.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003ePixel Art with an Arcade Heartbeat\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe art and the soundtrack are pointed squarely at the arcade football of the 80s and 90s, down to the crowd packed into the stands and the sponsor boards running along the touchline. Stadiums are chosen before kickoff and the surfaces change with them, from a crisply mown pitch under floodlights to a worn, churned-up surface or an open stretch of sand. Steam Achievements track the run, and Steam Cloud keeps your progress where you left it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePick a nation, set your formation and find out how far one well-timed shot can carry you.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Batovi Games Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39606827548758,"sku":"PC_6662105301078_DL_GL","price":24.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0875\/3268\/products\/card-pixel-cup-soccer-17-pc-mac-linux-steam-digital-download.jpg?v=1788479596"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.pjsgames.com\/en-fr\/collections\/football-soccer.oembed","provider":"PJ's Games","version":"1.0","type":"link"}