Football, Tactics & Glory

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Football, Tactics & Glory
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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.

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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]

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