Sega Worldwide Soccer 98

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Sega Worldwide Soccer 98
System(s): Sega Saturn, Windows PC
Publisher: Sega Sega PC
Developer: Sega CS1, SIMS
Supporting companies: Sega Digital Media (audio)
Sound driver: SCSP/CD-DA (5 tracks)
Peripherals supported: 6Player, Saturn Backup Memory, Sega Saturn Modem
Genre: Sports/Soccer (スポーツ/サッカー), Sports (football)
Number of players: 1-4
Official in-game languages: 日本語 English Français Español 日本語
Release Date RRP Code JP 1998-03-05 ¥5,8005,800 GS-9187 US 1997-11-18 $49.9949.99 81123 EU 1997-10-16 MK81123-50 DE 1997-10-16 MK81123-50 PT 199x STJSE0736 UK 1997-10-16 £44.9944.99 MK81123-50 PL 1997-10 209zł209 BR 1997-12 191316 JP 1998-06-26 ¥7,800 (8,190)7,800e HCJ-0142

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Sega Worldwide Soccer 98 (セガ ワールドワイドサッカー’９８), often known as Worldwide Soccer '98 and in PAL regions subtitled Sega Worldwide Soccer 98: Club Edition, is a football game for the Sega Saturn. It was released for the Sega Saturn as a direct sequel to Sega Worldwide Soccer 97.

Gameplay

As its European name suggests, Worldwide Soccer 98 adds 60 English, French and Spanish club teams to the roster, and also adds Jack Charlton's commentary in addition to Gary Bloom's, with roughly three times as much recorded dialogue as the previous outing. Two new stadia area also added, bringing the total to five, and enhanced replay features lets goals be watched from any angle.

Much of the AI has been improved from the previous game, primarily in the form of smarter goalkeepers and the computer opting to make more passes.

Teams

As with the previous game, the game lacks an official license from football governing body FIFA or any of the regional authorities such as UEFA, so teams lack official names and branding. For club teams, most players correlate well with their real life counterparts, complete with skin tones, hair colour and abilities. Not all shirt numbers are correct, however.

National teams

For the most part, the national teams in SWWS 98 are the same as SWWS 97, though a small handful have been swapped, so that all the countries who participated in the real life 1998 World Cup are available. The Czech Republic replace Turkey in the Europe 3 group, Ghana replace Liberia, Jamaica replace Honduras and Chile replace Bolivia.

SWWS 98 continues SWWS 97's footsteps of using fictional player names for national teams, sometimes incorporating names of developers which worked on the game and writers for the UK's Sega Saturn Magazine.

Europe 1

• England
• Italy
• Norway
• Poland
• Spain
• Switzerland

Europe 2

• Croatia
• Denmark
• France
• Greece
• Ireland
• Romania

Europe 3

• Belgium
• Bulgaria
• Czech Rep.
• Holland
• Russia
• Wales

Europe 4

• Austria
• Germany
• N. Ireland
• Portugal
• Scotland
• Sweden

Africa

• Cameroon
• Egypt
• Ghana
• Morocco
• Nigeria
• S. Africa

Asia/Oceania

• Australia
• China
• Japan
• S. Korea
• Saudi Arabia
• UAE

North America

• Canada
• Costa Rica
• El Salvador
• Jamaica
• Mexico
• USA

South America

• Argentina
• Brazil
• Chile
• Colombia
• Paraguay
• Uruguay

Club teams

Sega Worldwide Soccer 98's approach to club teams is curious, with available teams being tied down to the chosen language (i.e. English teams are only available in English language mode, Spanish teams in Spanish language mode, etc.). This means, for example, it is impossible for a French club team to play a Spanish one. Likewise club teams cannot play against national teams.

The design led to problems when advertising the game, as while 108 teams exist (48 national teams and 60 club teams), only 68 can be selected at any one point. 68 is the figure the North American version sticks by in its manual, however Japan seemingly refers to a 108 team figure.

England 1

• Blackburn
• Bolton
• Everton
• Liverpool
• Manchester

England 2

• Barnsley
• Derby City
• Leeds United
• Newcastle
• Sheffield

England 3

• Arsenal
• Aston Villa
• Chelsea
• Coventry
• Leicester

England 4

• C. Palace
• Southampton
• Tottenham
• West Ham
• Wimbledon

France 1

France 2

France 3

France 4

España 1

• Gijón (R.C. Sporting de Gijón)
• La Coruña (R.C. Deportivo de La Coruña)
• Oviedo (Real Oviedo)
• Santiago C. (S.D. Compostela)
• Vigo (R.C. Celta de Vigo)

España 2

• Bilbao (Athletic Club)
• Madrid C. (C. Atlético de Madrid)
• Madrid N. (Real Madrid C.F.)
• Madrid S. (Rayo Vallecano de Madrid)
• Santander (R.C. Racing de Santander)

España 3

• Barcelona (F.C. Barcelona)
• Barcelona N. (R.C.D. Espanyol)
• Logroño (C.D. Logroñés)
• S. Sebastian (Real Sociedad de Fútbol)
• Zaragoza (Real Zaragoza)

España 4

• Extremadura (C.F. Extremadura)
• Sevilla (Sevilla F.C.)
• Sevilla N. (Real Betis Balompié)
• Tenerife (C.D. Tenerife)
• Valencia (Valencia C.F.)

Note that "Sheffield" is based on Sheffield Wednesday, as opposed to rivals Sheffield United.
Spanish clubs are listed in the game under generic unofficial names based on their home cities. Official names of the intended represented clubs are placed in brackets.

Production credits

EUROPE STAFF

• Senior Producer: Kats Sato
• Product Manager: Mark Maslowicz
• Producer: Pierre Hintze
• Production Coordinator: Ed Bainbridge
• Commentators: Gary Bloom, Jack Charlton
• Script: Dave Thompson, James Ferguson
• Music: Richard Jacques
• Localisation: Dave Thompson, Roberto Párraga
• Special Thanks: Phillippa Measday, Mark Pearson, Simon Fitzpatrik, Josh Bloom and Sega of Europe

U.S.A. STAFF

• Producer: Tracy Johnson
• Brand Manager: Brad Hogan
• Test Lead: Don Carmichael
• Test Assistant Lead: Angela Edwards, Cobi Jones, Mark Subotnick, Mark Lindstrom, Cory Clemetson (Intersport, Inc.) and Sega of America

JAPAN STAFF

• Supervisor: Lee Hiroyasu
• Adviser: Jin Shimazaki
• Coordinator: Takahiro Fukada
• Assistant Director: Hideki Katagiri
• Chief of Staff: Akio Kamezaki
• Staff Officer: Rumiko Ueki, Takayuki Itagaki
• Chief of Graphics: Shin Sasaki
• Graphic Design: Aimi Takaki, Atsushi Kume, Atsushi Yamamoto, Azusa Atsumi, Hiroko Katou, Junko Nagashima, Ken Shimizu, Kenji Tamura, Masami Komine, Nanae Tanabe, Naoko Takeshi, Satomi Miyatake, Seiji Ogomori
• Chief of Program: Yoshiki Sawamura
• Game Program: Hideto Fujishita, Junichi Sutoh, Katsumi Kohori, Keita Mizukami, Miho Yoshimura, Naohide Kinjo, Takahiro Higuchi, Takayuki Suzuki, Toyoji Kurose, Tsuyoshi Kogata
• Sound Director: Hirofumi Murasaki
• Sound Team Staff: Jun Senoue, Masahiro Itou, Makoto Iida, Mariko Nanba, Seiroh Okamoto, Naoyuki Machida, Tatsutoshi Narita
• Special Thanks: Takenobu Mitsuyoshi, Ryoichi Hasegawa, Makoto Nishino, Jun Senoue uses ESP® guitars, Sega Digital Studio, and Sega of Japan

Source:

Unknown

• Producer: Tracy Johnson
• Brand Manager: Brad Hogan
• Lead Tester: Don Carmichael
• Assistant Lead Tester: Rick Greer
• Testers: Bobby Amirkhan, Lorne Asuncion, Jeff Caffee, Kaycee Carmichael, Manon Von Gerkan, Angelina Jolie, Mark Lerma, Dave Paniagua, Mark Paniagua, Sofia Vergara, Ferdinand Villar
• Marketing Specialist: Mark Subotnick
• Team Sega Sports: Geraldine Dessimoz, Brad Hogan, Tracy Johnson, Marcus Matthews, Dave Perkinson
• Special Thanks: Cory Clemetson - Intersport, Inc., Cobi Jones, Angela Edwards, Bernie Stolar, Doris Burks, Jadelyn Chang, Undyne Stafford and Seedy Lounge

Source:

US manual

Magazine articles

Main article: Sega Worldwide Soccer 98/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

Saturn GR print advert

Print advert in Consoles + (FR) #69: "Octobre 1997" (1997-xx-xx)
also published in:

• Player One (FR) #79: "Octobre 1997" (1997-xx-xx)

Print advert in Hobby Consolas (ES) #74: "Noviembre 1997" (1997-xx-xx)

Print advert in Sega Power (GR) #3: "Dekémvrios 1997-Ianouários 1998" (1998-xx-xx)

Print advert in Sega Magazin (DE) #50: "Januar 1998" (1997-12-10)
also published in:

• Sega Magazin (DE) #51: "Februar 1998" (1998-01-14)
• Sega Magazin (DE) #52: "März 1998" (1998-02-11)
• Sega Magazin (DE) #53: "April 1998" (1998-03-11)
• Sega Magazin (DE) #54: "Mai 1998" (1998-04-01)
• Sega Magazin (DE) #55: "Juni 1998" (1998-05-06)
• Sega Magazin (DE) #56: "Juli 1998" (1998-06-03)
• Sega Magazin (DE) #57: "August 1998" (1998-07-01)
• Sega Magazin (DE) #59: "Oktober 1998" (1998-09-02)
• Sega Magazin (DE) #60: "November 1998" (1998-10-07)
• Sega Magazin (DE) #61: "Dezember 1998" (1998-11-04)
• Sega Magazin (DE) #62: "Januar 1999" (1998-12-02)
• Sega Magazin (DE) #63: "Februar 1999" (1998-12-28)

Physical scans

Saturn version

Sega Retro Average
Publication Score Source Consoles + (FR) 94 №80, p138 GamesMaster (UK) 87 №63, p42/43

	91
Based on 2 reviews

Sega Retro Average

Publication Version Score Ação Games (BR) 80 Consoles + (FR) PAL 95 Digitiser (UK) 87 Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) NTSC-U 55 Famitsu (JP) NTSC-J 73 Fun Generation (DE) PAL 80 GamePro (US) NTSC-U 73 GamesMaster (UK) 87 Game Informer (US) NTSC-U 89 Gry Komputerowe (PL) 84 Hobby Consolas (ES) 90 Level (TR) 75 MAN!AC (DE) PAL 82 Mega Console (IT) PAL 86 Mega Force (FR) PAL 93 Mega Fun (DE) PAL 78 Neo (PL) 70 Next Generation (US) NTSC-U 75 Saturn Fan (JP) NTSC-J 63 Saturn Fan (JP) NTSC-J 64 Saturn Power (UK) PAL 90 Sega Power (GR) 90 Sega Saturn Magazine (UK) PAL 94 Sega Saturn Magazine (JP) NTSC-J 63 Sega Saturn Magazine (JP) NTSC-J 75 Super Power (FI) 89

	80
Based on 26 reviews

Sega Worldwide Soccer 98

Saturn, JP
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Spinecard Disc Inlay

Saturn, US
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Manual

Saturn, EU
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Disc Manual Errata

Saturn, PT
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Disc

Saturn, BR
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PC version

PC, JP
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Technical information

Main article: Sega Worldwide Soccer 98/Technical information.