VR Soccer (sometimes referred to as VR Soccer '96, and known as Actua Soccer in Japan and Europe) is a sports video game developed and published by Gremlin Interactive for MS-DOS, PlayStation, Sega Saturn.
This was the first sports video game to include a full 3D graphics engine. For the animations of the players, 3 players of the club Sheffield Wednesday served as motion capture models.
Actua Soccer contains only 44 national teams, each containing 22 players. However, in 1996 a new version containing clubs was released: Actua Soccer: Club Edition. It contained 20 Premier League teams from the 1996/1997 season. It became a best seller in Europe, mainly in the United Kingdom.
VR Soccer '96, developed by Gremlin Interactive Ltd. and published by Interplay, is a re-release of a mid-1990s football simulation that captures a pivotal moment in sports gaming history. Originally launched in 1996 and later made available digitally on modern platforms, the game stands as an artifact of the early 3D era—when polygonal graphics were...