Kickoff represented the revolution of the soccer games: the bird-fly view from the top and the total freedom of control makes this game an absolute classic game. Kick Off 2 is the sequel of Kick Off. It was even more successful than his predecessor and is still acclaimed as one of the best football computer game ever released for home computer and console. Many innovative concepts have since become standard features in football games. Kick Off 2 added from Kick Off different field types, customizable shirts, allowed customized tactics made with Player Manager and a revolutionary feature called "after touch": a ball-controlling feature which was on effect after kicking the ball. It could produce some wicked spin, height or power to the ball depending on the action adding more degree of control over shooting the ball. Kickoff was programmed on Atari ST then converted to Amiga and almost all the game platform: the Amiga versions are indeed the best for quality of realization while the Atari ST ones (lacking of pitch graphics) are the more customizable. Actually this site offer Atari ST data disks with SQD file (squad files) realized with an editor provided in the RAR pack for the ones who want try create teams. I'm working on undestand how to convert ST files to Amiga.

(You can find a lot of resources on Amiga Kickoff in the links section, on the websites of Kick Off: The Gathering and Kickoff World. This section of the site actually is dedicated only to the work of update and team creation for Atari ST platform, with a focus on a future amiga conversion.)



Kick Off 2 (Atari ST version) Squads and Utilities

Atari ST Emu pack + Kickoff2 Editor 14.9p
Info: Unrar with WinRAR
(right-click Save Object as..)

Kick Off ST - Team disk 0.1
Contains best 8 of Premier League
Info: Unrar in Disks directory of Atari ST, then load with KO2FW (F3)
(right-click Save Object as..)

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