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Not content with hyping naff software with a totally sensationalist blurb, Codemasters have gone one better - they've now introduced the Codemasters 'Seal of Quality' to the inlay of Italia '90, one of the hottest licensing deals of the year...

And they've absolutely slaughtered it! There are two modes, a full footy match and a soccer skills section. The first has the player guiding his badly hobbling players (are tese guys cripples or what?) around the pitch, kicking a ball which defies the laws of gravity, while the skills game involves waggling the joystick at varying speeds in order to make your player (whose sampled breathing sounds like he's a beer-swilling 40-a-day man) do banal things like press-ups and sit-ups.

This is an appalling piece of software, even for £4.99. It might look nice in its packaging, but it's about as much fun as kicking around a deflated football.

Competent graphics, sound and presentation are ruined by appalling gameplay, making Italia '90 one of the worst football games around.