It's pretty disappointing to discover that the most recent accretion to the series, Club Edition, is in fact little more than a barely glorified data disk, consisting of Premier League teams instead of the usual International teams. They've even had the audacity to omit the 'sticker album' style photos that were promised in the early press releases last month too. Also, the actual AI routines and graphics are exactly the same as the original PlayStation version, which means all the old bugs and an exclusive new one are back to plague you once more. Doh!

Own Goal
More noticeably, the goalkeeper AI is unchanged; he won't come out for the ball when he should, it still bounces over his head far too easily, and he still insists on throwing it out to opposing players. Why-oh-why haven't the programmers adressed this? The goalie's diving is better, but now you can slip the ball either side of him, culminating in yet more comedy goals.

Player selection is unchanged too, where the wrong bloke can still be selected and you have to wait about half an hour for a tackled player to get up. Incredibly, there's a new bug to moan about, which rears its head in the simulation mode and causes the star players to kick more slowly than everyone else rendering this mode virtually unplayable. This kind of programming incompetence is simply unforgiveable, but we can only hope that Gremlin remedy all of these bugs in the up-and-coming Actua Soccer 2, which could and should be fantastic. Forget this tosh and wait. Comprendé?

Verdict: 62%