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Sensible Soccer, often affectionately known as Sensi, is a football video game series which was highly popular in the early 1990s and which still retains a cult following. Developed by Sensible Software and first released for Amiga and Atari ST computers in 1992, it featured a bird's-eye view (most games until then such as Kick Off and Matchday used top down or side view), editable teams and (some claim) gameplay ahead of its time.

Sensible World of Soccer, commonly referred to as SWOS, was released a year later in 1994. It became a first in videogames when it attempted to encompass the entire professional footballing world into one game. Featuring many divisions in many countries around the globe, fans loved it for its twenty season career mode which allowed them to play as thousands of different clubs, many of which players had never heard of.

On 1 November 2005, it was announced by an interview at gaming website Eurogamer that the series will make a return in Summer 2006, with a full 3D title to be released on PlayStation 2, Xbox and personal computers . Codemasters, the holders of the licence, will release the game across all PAL territories, with the design capabilities overseen by Jon Hare, the original designer of the game.

The official site shows a recent addition to the Sensible Soccer series that offers the potential to play SS through your own television. There is also a to discuss your experiences of the game as well as your hopes for the future of the game.

Games in the series

Trivia

Sensible Soccer spawned several clones, amongst them Croteam
's Football Glory
, for which they were sued by Sensible Software. The game's Croatian programmer claimed to have never seen, let alone played, Sensible Soccer.

There are still many shareware/freeware projects which are inspired by Sensible, such as or . The third version of the New Star Soccer
series debuts a 2D game engine that has been compared to Sensible Soccer.

The graphic style of the game was used in other Sensible Software games, such as Mega Lo Mania, Cannon Fodder and Sensible Golf.

One Christmas, a free Sensible Software minigame was included on an Amiga Format
cover disk. Called Cannon Soccer, it was essentially two bonus levels of Cannon Fodder in which the soldiers fought hordes of Sensible Soccer players in a snowy landscape.

SWOS 1996 received a score of 96% from Amiga Power
, the highest mark given for any game in their 65-issue run.

A group of fans in Serbia named ("SWOSovi Svedoci" in Serbian) organized four World Swos Tournaments from 2001 to 2004. WSTs were held in Backa Palanka (2001 and 2004), Belgrade (2002) and Nova Pazova (2003). Most players were from Serbia, but there also were contestants from Czech Republic, Austria, Poland, Bulgaria and Lebanon.

Regular tournaments are also still held in Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany and Brazil.

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