Developer PanicBarn and publisher No More Robots are working on a “funny open-world RPG” where you save the world with a magic ball. Soccer Story is scheduled to release later this year for PlayStation and Xbox consoles, Switch, PC and Stadia.
Your role in Football Story begins a year after an event called Calamity, which apparently made football illegal. A magic ball chooses you as the so-called soccer Messiah, a role that will also help heal the world.
No More Robots says that Soccer Story offers more than 15 hours of gameplay that takes place through story-based missions and side activities. You’ll be up against sharks, toddlers, old age pensioners and ninjas as you complete these missions and solve puzzles using the ball.
In addition to the single-player campaign, Soccer Story features a four-player local multiplayer mode, with each team being led by an animal captain.
Soccer Story is not developed by SideBar Games, the team behind the great thing Golf Story title, but it seems to draw a lot of inspiration from it, including the name.
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