The original version was released for France 98 and the 2002 version was released for Korea/Japan 2002. The theme song of the Japanese team for France 98.Ī very popular football anthem, also used as the support song for the J league team Urawa Red Diamonds in a variation called “We are Diamonds”. We're in this together (Universal Feeling Mix) (Só No Sapatinho) / Só No Sapatinho (ソ・ノ・サパチーニョ)Ī song with the vocals of Bruno de Sá Coimbra, son of popular retired Brazilian footballer Zico, the "God of Soccer" in Japan.ġ1.
#FIFA 99 THEME SONG TV#
Popular football song and chant, particularly in Europe, an also used in Japanese TV shows.ġ0. Popular football chant, particularly in the United Kingdom, also the main theme of Electronic Arts' video game World Cup 98. Since 2011, its tune is used for Paris Saint Germain's support song "Allez PSG".Ī song associated with football, as its usage as the goal song in Euro 2008 in its original version by Bellini and also used in Japanese TV football shows when reporting about South American teams and players.Ī special orchestral version of the original theme "Passion" used in the popular Japanese TV commercial of the 2007 Kirin Cup. Used worldwide in football matches by fans. Also used as the theme of Electronic Arts' FIFA 99. Used in the Fuji TV shows Monday Football and Monday Football R. We had to wait years before another game could beat it for gameplay and longevity.Used mostly in TV programs related to football.ģ. Probably one of the best soccer games ever made. When you have a football game the lonhgevity is always high and this time even higher since you have dozens of national teams, even the weakest in the world (I tried a lot of times to win the Championship with Cook Islands, difficulty hard, but wasn’t so easy…) I don’t know how it should sound the comment in the other languages but in italian was quite funny! The in-game sound (so basically the supporter noise and the comment) are very good. You don’t expect in a football to have a soundtrack so important, but in the same moment you see the menu you can here Blur’s “Song 2” so you stay for a minute or two watching the menu like a dork and you start playing your air guitar and spin your head (“like a record baby, right round round round” as somebody said…). RTWC instead it’s simple but not stupid and if you play in hard difficulty it’s quite a challenge.
In any case is not bad as FIFA 99 which was for me the most stupid among all FIFA games: with just one trick you could defeat everybody and all the matches could end 25-0. Maybe there’s something better if you check on 1997 video games, but for sure RTWC was the best football title of the year, especially in the PS1 version.Īs it is in some old FIFA titles, the gameplay it’s a bit “arcade”. These are the reason why FIFA 98: RTWC deserves a solid 9.Ī huge boost in the splash screen comes surely by the soudtrack but the movie-like intro showing the gameplay and the graphics it golden! Very nice intro, the best starter waitin for the main course! Solve this equation: x = >130 National teams + World Cup atmosphere + 1997 game, published just in time to boost the expectations for a great tournamenty for Italy + funny comment.
I played FIFA 98: RTWC only on PS1 and I have to admit this was the best platform to play the game onto.
There’s one thing I always loved about RTWC: the presence of ALL the national teams existing in the world that competed to qualify to the tournament.įor one like me, lover since forever of geography, microstates, strange cities, languages and places and one of the most passionate supporters of the pre-pre-pre-qualifying rounds of all the competitions, where you see teams that you wonder if they actually had 11 players to send to the field, this game was like an endless bag of toys for a child the Christmas morning. Even in 1998 the competition was in France, like this year and we all knows how it ended up……ĭespite my furious hate about 1998 World Cup edition, one of the hundred times Italy got beaten on penalty kicks, moreover against our long-time enemies, the frenchs, this game was published before the WC, so all my hopes on a possible italian victory were still quite solid (we had one of the best defense and maybe the most prolific attack of last 30 years). At this point this post suits to a T even if the road to 2018 World Cup will start in a few months and scratching on my pile of old CDs and DVD’s I found a game that in my opinion is one of the best, related to its time, concerning the most beautiful game in the world, FIFA ’98 Road to World Cup. The European Championship is allmost over, Italy is out and I don’t have anything more to do since I hate both of the teams that will play the final.