It was very appropriate that Crazy Foota should arrive on the day that the English football season kicks off. If there's anyone out there who hasn't twigged yet, then I'll tell you that Crazy Foota is a football game. OK?

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It is also an unusual football game, in that it's not like Champions or Football Manager, where you decide the club's moves and if all goes well and the odds are on your side you'll have a good chance of winning. In Crazy Foota, you control your team and battle away with the other team, controlling all the players and scoring all the goals.

The object of the game is to score as many goals as you can against your opponent within a set time. To select a player, you move an arrow on your side of the screen using a joystick, then left/right to move the player. This process takes a while to master. The fire button kicks the ball in the direction which the joystick is facing. This allows you to pass the ball or shoot.

The game is played in PMODE4, and bee a use there is no colour it is hard to distinguish between your own players and the opposition. However, if you look closely one team has its right hands up in the air, and the other team has its left hands up, which makes all the players look as if they are about to do a Highland Fling.

There are eleven players in each team, which means 22 figures packed into one little screen. This does get a mite confusing.

The graphics are simple but nice, and the players look surprisingly like Jack (from Beanstalker). The title music is also fairly simple. The cheers from the crowd sound like a constipated cat.

There are a number of faults in the game which spoil an otherwise enjoyable program. Firstly, the goals are larger than the goalie, which means that you can score by shooting diagonally over his head or under his legs. It sounds fair but it is annoying. Secondly, you can walk straight into a player and take the ball away from him. This is especially annoying when it's the opposition's keeper who is the culprit, because he can walk straight into your goal leaving you unable to catch up. Finally, because you can walk through a player, it is possible to walk through the other keeper's goals while he is standing in them, and he cannot block your way (or you his). You simply push him further into the goals, and there's nothing you can do about it.

It's nice to see Computape release something new by themselves, although the presentation is rather amateurish. The inlay is made up of a thin piece of yellow paper with a print of a screen shot. How about a bit of colour with some proper pictures?! Apart from the said problems, I found the game very enjoyable and it is well worth the price of £2.99.