The 7 best World Cup games released to this day

Over the past 30 years, the game industry has received several remarkable football titles during the World Cup, both official and the FIFA series released by EA Sports, and unofficial, but clearly inspired by the World Cup Selections, case of several of the titles of the Pro Evolution Soccer (PES) series, current Football, from INAMI. Whether in the age of 16 bits or consoles with photorealistic and high resolution graphics, these games have become extremely dear to millions of people in love with games, football and, of course, the World Cup.

• 7th place-nine geography cup 98: Road to the Victory (SNK)
• 6th place-world Cup 98 (EA Sports)
• 5th Place-International Superstar Soccer (INAMI)
• 4th place-2006 FIFA World Cup (EA Sports)
• 3rd place-winning Eleven 3 Final See. / International Superstar Soccer Pro 98 (INAMI)
• 2nd place-2014 FIFA World Cup azil (EA Sports)
• 1st place-2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa (EA Sports)

MGG azil has separated the 7 best World Cup games released to this day-unconnecting titles that cannot use the name of the World Cup for and licensing issues-adopting as a criterion both the quality of the games themselves for the time they were Launched, as for the impact they had for millions of players around the world. Check out.

7th place-nine geography cup 98: Road to the Victory (SNK)

Title derived from SNK's Super Sidekicks series, Neo Geo Cup 98 is a title with clear inspiration at the World Cup played in 1998 in France, although not a game with FIFA's official license. With pixel art graphics that have aged very well and gameplay that remains fun to this day, this updated version of Super Sidekicks 3 is considered to date the apex of the franchise, especially in the fun.

From the last game of the qualifiers to the World Cup final, the title campaign for arcade was extremely challenging at the most difficult levels, but the player could understand the mechanics (and the tricks) of the game relative quickly after some frustrated campaigns. With great look and extremely intuitive and fun gameplay, the title was a must for arcade fans who attended arcades in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

6th place-world Cup 98 (EA Sports)

One of the best football games of the 1990s, World Cup 98, from EA Sports was undoubtedly the most complete game of the French World Cup in the licensing, whether from teams, stadiums or even players' uniforms, stadiums or names. With excellent gameplay and great graphics for the standards of the time, World Cup 98 gained versions for PlayStation 1, Nintendo 64, PC and even Game Boy, but it was PC and Nintendo 64 versions the most impressive in visual.

Although clearly a game dated in mechanical and visual aspects today, World Cup 98 has established a new standard of quality and whim for football games with World Cup setting, but in terms of gameplay, it was surpassed by a title released in the same period EA's main rival in football games: INAMI. The title in question is even a high position on this list.

5th Place-International Superstar Soccer (INAMI)

For many players, International Superstar Soccer is not only the best 16-bit era football game, but also one of the best sports games of all time, and reasons abound. Launched in November 1994 in Japan and in the first half of 1995 in the West, the title revolutionized football games with much more fluid gameplay than any other competitor of the time, especially on consoles, impressive pixel art visuals and a replay factor that few games of the genre can reach today.

Although not a World Cup licensing game, the game was clearly inspired by the 1994 World Cup, played in the United States, and in terms of gameplay offered the most advanced at the time for a console like Super Nintendo.

4th place-2006 FIFA World Cup (EA Sports)

Launched at a time when the Winning Eleven/Pro Evolution Soccer series was the best in football games, 2006 FIFA World Cup was a milestone at the time not only by excellent visuals, but for all the whim to reproduce with faithfulness to World Cup setting in Germany. With extremely fun and fluid gameplay, the EA Sports title could not even be as good as contemporaries Pro Evolution Soccer 5 and 6, but certainly won with a console of the time, including the newly released Xbox 360, A reliable World Cup setting, and in a way that no other game had achieved so far.

3rd place-winning Eleven 3 Final See. / International Superstar Soccer Pro 98 (INAMI)

If INAMI had EA Sports licensing rights, Winning Eleven 3 Final See would be the 90s perfect World Cup game. With impressive graphics for the time, uniforms, players and extremely reliable stadiums to the 98 World Cup, disputed in France, and a gameplay that survived the time-long tester than the title released by EA at the time, INAMI has capricious in every possible aspect and delivered a title that marked epoch and remains extremely fun, although obviously far from realism.

The only negative point of the game is the fictitious names of all athletes, with Ronaldo having his name changed to Ron arid, Cafe becoming Safe, Rosario is renamed Comedic, among other unusual examples. However, players had a chance to edit the names of all players, so even this totally corrected defect.

2nd place-2014 FIFA World Cup azil (EA Sports)

If FIFA 14 is to this day one of the fan favorite games, inging several gameplay improvements to the franchise, 2014 FIFA World Cup azil loose for the extremely neat work to create the 2014 World Cup setting and maintaining the gameplay praised From FIFA 14, which mixed realistic aspects with a more arcade footprint in other points.

With extremely praised looks, remarkable soundtrack and the possibility of players playing in any region of the world, 2014 FIFA World Cup azil has become a darling of fans and one of the games that best reproduced the World Cup mood from beginning to end of the campaign. EA's only major problem was the absence of a PlayStation 4 and Xbox One version, released a few months earlier.

1st place-2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa (EA Sports)

The 2010 World Cup, played in South Africa, received an official game up to the excellent World Cup 12 years ago. FIFA 10 is to this day one of the franchise's most acclaimed games, and 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa has shown a title, inging extreme whim in the entire performance of the game, recreating with fidelity all the atmosphere of the competition and keeping the gameplay fun and FIFA 10 fluid, but with an even more neat art direction.

With 199 selections available, an extremely striking soundtrack, exuberant graphics for the time it was released, especially in Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions, and a whim level rarely repeated in the history of football games, 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa is, to this day, the best World Cup released to this day.