In a way, Mia Hamm Soccer 64 is a significant game, as it’s the first video game focused on women’s football – and possibly one of the first female-focused sports games that doesn’t involve skimpy clothing. Unfortunately, it was also just a cheap cash-in. When the US women’s team won the 1999 World Cup, Mia Hamm became an icon. Publishers Southpeak quickly got hold of an older football game (Michael Owen’s WLS 2000) and gave developer DC Studios twelve weeks to transform it into a women’s football game.

The small amount of time to develop this game definitely shows, as the main thing they had to do – change the character models – does not come across well. It seems like they’ve just tried to distort the original models to try and emphasise their chests and butts, but the strange distortion makes them look more like a silly “alien mode” cheat code than women. The only hair options are also either short hair, or what can only be described as a “man bun”. If it wasn’t for the picture of Mia Hamm on the title screen, people could probably play this game without even knowing that it’s got women in it.

The original game was just a ok-ish football game, and this is just the same game with even worse character models.

Poor

Remake or remaster?

There are better football game, and women’s football is now part of whatever EA are calling FIFA now.

Official Ways to get the game

There is no official way to get Mia Hamm Soccer 64.