M.U.D.S.: Mean Ugly Dirty Sport Reviews

2/10

Nominated as "Oustanding Story-Rich Game" 2023. Some days, only a narrative-heavy game will hit the spot, and this one packs a wallop. It's as gripping as any soap opera, and as well-tuned as a prestige-TV screenplay. Bravissimo -- for making us feel things! Honor to whom honor is due!

The trailers has music and sound effects... this DOS package of this game does not. If you like changing lines in text files or trying to just find an Archived Edition of this game for waaaayyyy cheaper do that. Don't buy this.

It's Mean Ugly Dirty Sport, and it's finally on Steam! This is the original version of the game from 1990 running on DosBox. The controls are clunky and missing many QoL-features of today's games, so it's highly recommended to read the included Quick Start guide. The game includes a copy protection query, but the codes are also included in the package. M.U.D.S. was one of the first action and management fantasy football computer games, and was the first to feature gameplay as later seen in Chaos League or the PC Versions of BloodBowl. Notable differences to other fantasy football games are that the ball is alive (a Flonk) and will try to flee the playing field (its trainers can also be bribed to make it run towards your players), and that the goal is protected by a moat with a carnivorous monster, that will eat scoring players if they don't clear the moat fast enough. The game features a full campaign with different locations, non-standard player races with different statistics, team management, as well as a lot of nice pre-match features like picking a fight with the other team, bribing, or even hiring their players. In matches you can play via keyboard or mouse (mouse is gruesome), or just watch the AI control your team. You can lay down the general behaviour of your team from tactical/offensive (focused on scoring), defensive, or aggressive (focused on wiping out the other team). Some How-To's in advance: You can't Alt-TAB out of the game without losing the correct screen resolution, so it's recommended to print the copy-protection codes or make a photo via smartphone. Saving is only possible when quitting the game. To exit the game after saving, when the DOS-screen is displayed, press STRG+F9. You can only load your game after starting a new campaign. After roughy 11h I've beaten the campaign and encountered no bugs or crashes whatsoever. Thanks for bringing M.U.D.S. to Steam!