Well at first i thought the game wasnt actually that bad, sure it was basic to the extreme but it had that inescapable draw that some games just inherantly have.
It does however, have colossal flaws.

First and formost, there seems to be absolutely no way to cycle which player you control, i was playing as scotland against brazil, it was 1-1, there net was wide, the ball was sitting there, one of my guys was near it and all the brazilians were miles away, i could taste the victory.
But this game seems to use some seriously flawed algorithm to designate your active player, to my horro my player just stood there, and when a brazilian drew into the screen he ran AWAY from the ball.
Annoyed does not begin to do t for me, i couldn't believe it.

Theres not really  bunch to say about this, its a really basic repetitve game.

Graphics-6
I wasnt expecting miracles, and granted i got none, but i was plesently surprised that 1, the people were actualy identifiable as, y'know, people, and 2, each team was custom designed, the brazilians even had different skin tones.
Equally however, theres only one pitch which is weird because they are all national teams...
Yeh lets have west germany v france in america...
But, not bad.  Aparently your team mates even cover there eyes while the oposition celebrate if you score an own goal.

Sound-5
It was meh, you get a pretty random tune while playing and a cheerfull little jingle if you actually score, which incidentally, is another hangup.  Controlling the power and direction of your shot is next to impossible as is actually scoring a goal, it took me ages to get even one. Plus the makers seem to have forgoten half time..
Oh, sound, sorry.  Yeh, its repetitive but its not so bad it makes you want to mute the sound.

Addictiveness-8
Yeh, its colossaly flawed, but shock horror, all the difficuties and bad designs actually made me more determined, i wouldnt actualy rule out playing it again, maybe il even win one day (best i got was a draw and what a battle that was).  Its actually really fun.

story-1
I wont go on about that too much, its basic just a match, you choose 1 team, the other is randomly assigned(unless you play 2 player).
It would have been far better if there was a league table though, actually playing each team in turn.( the teams are brazil, england, west germany, italy, spain, holland, colombia, scotland, argentina, france, usa, USSR, uruguay, korea, poland and japan)
Oddly the team you choose dosent actually seem to effect the difficulty which is weird.

Depth-3
Well like i said, its the same deal everytime, beat whoever is randomly assigned as your oponent.

Difficulty-9
Honestly, winning a match is damn near impossile, both because the opposition actualy work properly whereas it randonmly assigns which player youre controlling, and because there goalkeeper is aparently neo from the matrix.

Overall-7.4
It really wasnt half bad, this thing should stink to high heaven but its actually pretty enjoyable and a good time killer, I enjoyed it once I figured out the controls (which wasnt that hard, theres only like, 2 buttons).
Id advocate giving it a shot, who knows, maybe you'll be the one to actually beat the thing.

Usually the Tecmo games are really good. When they made a soccer game I was a bit skeptical on how it would turn out, but after playing it, it was pretty good. I am shocked how it turned out. I enjoy a new game to play, this game was pretty cool. Good game.