Note: Crazy Foota 3 new availabfe from author Grahame Smith at Orange Software, £2.99.

> Yet another football game (we're spoiled for choice), this time coming from Computape, continuing their Crazy Foota series.

Crazy Foota 2 is described as being greatly improved on the old version. In many ways it is leagues above Crazy Foota, but it too has its faults.

The game takes surprisingly little lime to load. After a well drawn title screen comes a small burst of music. Although not of the same standards of Superkid, Rola-Ball etc, it's much improved on the few beeps we get in CF1. First come the instructions (as usual, I didn't read them). Next you are shown a list of options. Among them you can select a single player game against the computer, you can display the high score table or you can start the game.

> However there's another option. Pressing 'O' displays the other options. This is where Crazy Foota 2 comes into its own. You can select/change the speed of your players, alter the time set for each game and select names for both the red and yellow teams. Red and yellow in this case because this game's in colour.

Having selected all you want, you can then begin the game properly.

You can either choose to play an opponent or the computer. The main drawback with playing the computer is that if you play in Yellow you have to use the left joystick, whereas if you change to Red you've also got to change joystick.

> As in CF1, there are eleven players in each team, all down your side of the screen. You control the team in your colours and your opponent controls the other team.

The object of the game is not simply to score as many goals against your opponent within the set time limit. In this game you can choose to play 'first to five' or 'first to ten'.

The method of play is almost identical to the first version. To select a player you simply move a pointer up the screen, by pressing the button and moving the joystick up or down. Moving the joystick moves your selected player.

> If you manage to pick up the ball you can run with it, shoot or pass. You can tackle another player simply by standing in his way. Alternatively you can tackle while on the run but the chance of success are said to be 50%.

Having got the ball, pressing Fire kicks the ball in the direction you are facing. However, you cannot kick the ball horizontally.

This time the 'goals' have been enlarged, much to my distress. With the old version you could score simply by kicking the ball either above or below the goalie. Well, it's more of a problem now, because the goals are larger, meaning more space between the 'keeper' and his surrounding players.

> The problem of being able to walk straight past a player has gone (now you're almost certain to be tackled) and the problem of being able to walk straight into the goal has also gone.. Now you can only score with a diagonal shot unless the ball deflects off another player and goes into the goal.

The graphics are not quite as good as in CF1. In particular the players. You should see the way they run! They seem to drag their legs across the ground. However that shouldn't prove a problem. The cheers are still the same, although there's also an alarm at the end of the game.

I don't like the way this game is laid out. If you're going to have a game where you control all the players then I'd opt for the way Quickbeam has chosen. The pitch is rather small on this game. It's better to spread the players out on a large pitch that scrolls along.

> That said however, Crazy Foota 2 does make up for its faults. There's a high score table, as in the first version.

Crazy Foota 2 is indeed greatly improved. It offers some very good features and provides hours of fun.

Af first when I saw this game I was appalled at the graphics but once you settle down, you realise that they're not all that bad. So while Crazy Foota 2 may not possess the best graphics and sound I've seen, it is fun and quite addictive.

> I won't offer it five Dragons yet. It needs a few improvements, but providing the author does a bit more touching up, I'm sure that Crazy Foota 3 would be worth it.