Football Strike Reviews

....or dont bother asking for repeat customers. All I see are updates that feature new games, new articles of clothing. But if you took the time to read reviews you would see that almost 100% of the problems experienced are for the connection drop issues especially at the higher levels. Call it cheaters hacking or glitches, whatever, this issue has been around since day one and is totally ignored. That tells me your priority is sucking more money out of unsuspecting fools like myself rather than providing a quality game. You guys are either the worst marketing strategists or the crappiest app designers out there. You would have easily double the fan base if you would simply address the issue everyone complains about. Instead we get a new badge for our garments while you ignore the folks who have been paying money in favor of attracting new membership with shiny objects. Once they figure your scam out, they will leave but who cares, right? You’ve already fleeced what your marketing strategist reports to be people who will no longer cough up money just to lose it on a fake connectivity issue. At least make it look like you are interested in stopping the cheating and crappy programming flaws instead of leveraging the biggest complaint for more real money. Hahaha, jokes on us, eh? One of these days apple will clamp down on the licensed stealing folks like you are getting away with now. Meanwhile, steal away, right?

This game isn’t fair when you play at the top level with fewer online players of your continent than the other continent. The racing to be the top player isn’t balance at all. The owner need to change the restriction to include all continents so we could have diversity and more matches. I’m saying this because the game already set a limited numbers of games per day or 24 hrs per player, not sure which is right but after the 24 hrs period, it doesn’t allow the points gain from the same player to be added into the total points. Another bug is the player who’s not in my club but was there before doesn’t allow the cap/vice to kick them out. Indeed it prompted the little pop up menu so I could kick them out but after the click it did nothing. These are the little bugs that was so annoying and I think not just me but I’m sure a lot of people are not happy about. That being said, the owner/developer should look into this and fix them ASAP. I’ll lift my stars when these issues fixed and fair enough for everyone.

I’m one of the best players in the game and in the last year I’ve consistently faced trouble striking the ball. I have no issues with connection btw. Basically I would strike a target 🎯 and try to immediately strike the next target and the game doesn’t read my strike. It’s like I have to wait over and over for the player to reposition himself. In the past I was able to strike effortlessly and without that setback. The player would immediately get in strike mode when I swipe. Now the cane is bugged up. This cost me games against less skilled players.

Also they need to get rid of scam cheating players. The ones who are at level 3 for example but their speed is faster than a level 6 which is the max. That’s certainly some external hack. And some hackers freeze the game so it doesn’t start at all and when you leave then they get easy wins without even playing. The other group of scammers will cause the game to randomly pause for you and you literally see targets getting hit while the game pauses. And football strike team are too lazy to do anything about it.

This game could be so much better. First, it matches you against people that 20+ levels above you with super shots and super balls. Oh, you can pay to buy the bags that possibly contain cards that may one day be enough to get you the balls and skills you need to win, but don’t hold your breath. Then, there’s the game play. You’ll quickly realize that no matter how quickly you swipe the screen or where you tell your keeper to jump, the game has a mind of its own. Sometimes your keeper is superhero quick and your shots are genuine lightning strikes and other times your guys are hung over and/or outright drunk. You can swipe your finger till it bleeds, but your guy is going to give you the middle finger and do whatever he wants... And don’t get me started on the wind challenge. Wind blows a certain direction and you have to fight the wind to hit your target. We aren’t talking a gentle summer breeze. I’m talking category 5 hurricane! Inside a stadium!! Anyway, if you are willing to overlook the fact that you aren’t actually in control, you’ll enjoy this one.... lol

At the beginning I really enjoyed the game. Played it quite a lot actually. Once I started playing for 500,000 coins, that’s when things got ugly. I’d get level 10 opponents, and when I’d score on them, it would show the green mark that I did in fact score, but when it became their turn, it would turn red considering my goal a miss. It would stay that way at until he scored at least one goal and declare them the winner and take my money away. Keep in mind, this happened around 4-5 times so far. I contacted miniclip customer support. And all I got was “we’ll investigate” “we’re sorry” “we’ll look into it” and at the end after reporting multiple times, they told me that they will not tell me the result of the “investigation”. That I get, but what I didn’t get is when they told me that even if I turned out to be right and that in fact is a hacker, they will not be giving me my coins back. Why am I reporting if I’m not getting my money back.
So yeah definitely not playing it again.

I definitely enjoy playing this game, but it is ruined by a few things. I can live with some unrealistic game play as far as shooting and goalkeeping are concerned. But, the disconnections, wind challenges, and prices in items are ridiculous. The disconnections are the biggest and worst problem for sure. I’ll be in the middle of the match, with a lead or in position to at least attempt a comeback and get disconnected for no reason. And you always lose the coins you put up for the match, without fail. The wind challenges in career are extremely unrealistic and discourages anyone from wanting to play career. And lastly, the game is incredibly greedy when it comes to paying to win. I understand you want to make some money as an app developer but 600 cash for a single ball? You got to be smoking something pretty strong to justify that. The cash system is totally out of whack and the bags take so long to open it almost begs you to spend the cash.

This game get impossibly hard once you reach rank 10. I won ever game before rank 10 and a soon as I reached it my opponent regardless of the stats would make crazy saves or shots. Half the time it doesn’t feel like I’m playing a human because the animation speeds up to stop a ball it wouldn’t normally reach. Except that’s not the case when I play goalie because if your just a second early or late then it going in and half the time the block I make I just randomly swipe before they shoot. I win about 1 in every 5 games which means I lose coins at a rapid rate and because there is no free mode that gives coins I can’t not play the game until I wait 3 hours. This game is a lot of fun which is why I give it two stars not one but the difficulty makes it impossible to get coins and coins are need to get better so you basically have to get lucky and hope a really bad opponent want to rematch several times in a row.

I like this game a lot, but like most other games that are actually fun to play, the price for upgrades and new items are ridiculous and outrageous! It’s hard to explain but if you have played the game yourself, then you know what I’m talking about. You don’t get to pick outfits or cleats, etc.. you earn them in bags awarded or if you somehow have enough coins, or cash, you can buy higher value bags. Either way it’s no telling what you get. To boost up your players or the soccer balls you use, gets more expensive each time you have upgraded the player or soccer balls. The game itself is pretty cool and fun! But it becomes boring and annoying after a while because of the value of your real money, time, and effort to upgrade when in reality you don’t get full control on what you want to upgrade. The game play is cool. It’s hard to block some shots because of the view point of the goalie to the other player kicking. There really is no skill level needed to play this game, just get lucky haha it’s 50/50 really. You win some and you lose some. You’re playing against real ppl so it depends on you to succeed. Playing against a computer is easy, eventually you gain strategy but not against real players!

So I am in the middle of playing my game and then I see the connecting sign on the bottom of my screen. I have full bars and no internet issues but it just shut off and didn't allow me to continue and sent me to the loading screen. Also I did not say that it was on a 50,000 coin game and it logs me off every few minutes due to some mysterious lag. One other thing I would say is that they need more frequent updates. I have been playing the game for around a year now and I have not seen too many new things come to the game. Yes I know that this company owns many games but still they should add new things so the games don't get boring. All in all, this game is pretty fun but the lag and the weird kicking from the game gets annoying once you play for a longer time.

I hate how you can only sign in with Facebook to save your progress and then you can’t change your nickname. And when playing as goalie your guy moves so he goes in front of the ball sometimes so I can’t see where the ball is going and get scored on. Also when people have bad connection when they shoot, the ball appears basically already in the goal when they load so for me there is no chance for saving the ball from going into the goal. Some of the career challenges are also really hard like with the wind trying to get a certain amount of points in 60 seconds. It is also pretty hard to get cash. But otherwise the game itself is pretty good just please change some of that stuff. Also, I’m level 13 and get put up against a level 31 person. How is that fair? I lost all my money and am really angry that you would put me up against someone way higher level than me.

Started out as any game should. It is fun and can easily keep you busy passing the time. But like everything else it cost a small fortune to be able to compete if you want too. I play free play and like many others you have to play free kick just to build up coins. If you don’t have coins you can’t compete. Now for the second time I get to a point in career mode where i don’t have enough coins to play so I go back to free kick. Literally 48 hours later and 50,000 coins I can continue on! Exciting right? Well not when you are a level 15 and they match you up with a level 64 that has paid for every upgrade and blows your doors off! This has happened twice now! Other than that it’s a fun game. I am done with it however because it gets very boring having to only play free kick to “hopefully” get to play and get matched against top players who you can’t compete with.

I gotta say I like the game a lot. There’s a lot skill involved and there’s a lot of options for F2P players to still grow your skills through videos. I would give it 5 stars except for 2 major bugs that constantly happen in H2H free kick matches:
1) sometimes when you kick it it goes into action-replay (?) mode which looks at the shot from different angles automatically, this sometimes gets stuck on repeat and can last several minutes until you or the opponent gives up. In which case someone is losing coins or more.
2) sometimes if a player gets disconnected and it times out it doesn’t automatically give you a win, instead the guy will just stand there with nothing happening, the controls freeze for minutes on end until your force close FootballStrike and then you lose the match.
Both of these lose a star rating because the glitches cause you to lose coins and money you could spend on the game. Otherwise I would give it 5 stars

I like this game a lot and it's fun to play as you can play quick games against other real people. The lack of Game Center integration means you must connect to Facebook to play across iPad and iPhone. I hope the developers will add Game Center support soon as Facebook shouldn't be required for cross-device play. Like other reviews, this game gets expensive fast. They're should be other ways to acquire the in-game currency to open bags. I love challenging people to rematches! Unfortunately when you win, the time it takes to show you the bag you've earned from the last game and it gets out of the way, it's often too late to get a response from you opponent as they think you've left. This would be a simple fix for the developers to make. Don't have the bag get I'm the way of requesting a rematch or speed the bag appearing up. If these changes are made, I could be playing this for years.

I have had this game since last year and I play it all the time. It is pretty fun and it doesn’t get very boring after a while. But there are a few little flaws with the game. The biggest thing that made me not want to play this for a few weeks is that I had saved up my Cash for a long time and I had over 350 Cash. When I decided to spend about 300 of it on a VIP ball, it said something like “this item is sold out” and it took my money away from me. It’s not that big of a deal, but I have had a lot of this developer’s games for long time and I have not experienced anything like this. Please either find out a way to refund me the money or give me the item that I spent my money on. That’s over three hundred Cash that you stole from me that I am not going to get back any time soon if you do not refund me my money. Please find out a way to fix this or I will delete the game. Thank you for reading this review.

Dont get me wrong this game is really fun i enjoy playing it but the game its self is really missing some things that should be switched. One of them being how long it takes to open a bag like its rediculos its almost to the point where you only get to open one a day unless you use your in game money to open it which id rather save than use to open a bag where im just gonna have to keep wasting money on. Also in my opinion the water bottle idea in the carrer mode just ruins the feel of the game. Its just more time to wait for games to be played and that is getting annoying because i would like to play carrer mode but have to wait for water bottles and i feel like this concept was a good idea but should be removed in the future i feel like it would increase the quality time spent on FootballStrike . Thats all i have to say thanks again for making such a fun game and i hope you read this and mabye take some of what i had to say in consideration :)

To start off, I am a level 18 player with a 2 goalkeeping stat. I frequently play free kicks in tier 4 and the competition is difficult. One unfair shot that has been getting the best of me recently is the slow panenka shot when the ball is directly in front of the goal. Please change the panenka animation so that it doesn't look like an extremely fast shot. It's unfair if the player can't read the animation and know the speed of the shot. A common goal scored against me is the shooter doing a slow panenka shot and I end up diving way too early. This has happened too many times to be excused. On a side note, make it so that if the ball touches the goalkeeper, the shot will be stopped even if the goalkeeper has dove for the ball too late. It's very frustrating when the ball phases through the goalkeepers hands. And finally, clean up the animations please.

This game is very fun and very well balanced except for one thing. I believe that the goalie stretch animation where he touches his hands to both shoulders should be removed. It is a long animation and it completely obstructs the view of the ball so if someone shoots while you’re goalie is doing this animation you cannot see the ball, which is almost impossible to save at that point. If this is animation is removed from the game it will be perfect!

ADDITION-
There are some cheaters who need to be dealt with in the game too, they are very easy to find in the leaderboards because they will have ridiculous win rate and shooting race scores. Some even advertise what hacking source they are using in their profile pictures. These people ruin the game and it’s hard to get rid of all of them but some of them are very easy to see, like Macimbatumba, Wahid, Pedro, just to name a few from just the very first names you can see.

I like this game because unlike the other miniclip games 8 ball pool, soccer stars etc it’s one of the ones that is more action packed. Another one similar is basketball stars. Basically the same except it’s basketball. There is one small bug with losing the connection. That’s why it lost a star. And a lot of people complain about the fact that with this game along with all of the other miniclip games. You are betting money. For example, you are losing a lot of games. You will lose your money too. And you will go broke and have to play at a low level. So that’s why I’m going to recommend you try all of the miniclip games and see which one fits you most. One that you will be good at and win so you won’t have the trouble with going broke. But this game is very fun and the one that fit me best!

I want to start by saying that this game is really fun. However, there are many flaws that cannot be ignored. I play the free kick mode constantly, and am always losing coins. This is incredibly frustrating as you need coins to get better! Also, you can’t do anything other than the practice mode if you don’t have coins. This problem is an easy fix- add a mode that costs nothing and gives 50 coins to the winner. To make it so people don’t take advantage, you could only allow players to use this mode when they can’t afford to do anything else. This is a much better alternative to waiting for 2 hours for 280 coins. I also think it should be made easier to earn the dollar things. They give so much of an advantage, but only players who pay a lot can afford them. It should not be this hard to get a good soccer ball. I also believe upgrades to stats should cost less. Coins are hard to get a lot of, and upgrades are incredibly important, which makes the game nearly impossible for new players.

So this game gives you the illusion that you are playing other people live but you are not. FootballStrike takes our info and profiles and uses it to generate “live” games, except they are not live, you are not playing against other players you are playing against the computer using other players profile images. Certain things give it away such as when FootballStrike uses algorithms to decide when you should play against against a difficult “opponent”. When this happens your goalie will not work properly and will fall down and do something you didn’t “tell” it to do when swiping, and sometimes if you manage to get your goalie in the right position to block the ball the ball appears to go through your goalie. They also do other tricks such as use dialogue boxes to make it appear your opponent is interacting with you. There are many other little tricks they use to make you feel like you are competing against other people, but having said all that, outside of the games FootballStrike decides its time for you to lose, it is still a fun game to play.

The game is overall really fun. The mechanics work great, there’s a decent amount of strategy, and I like the animation. However there are just some minor things I’d change. 1. Signing in: players should be allowed to make an account with twitter or email, rather than just Twitter. I don’t have a Facebook so I’m stuck with guest (insert many numbers). 2 Power: It would in my opinion the free kick taker should have an energy bar so people don’t abuse the speed of their shots every time. 3. a matchup range: I’m currently a level 16, and have progressed through the career quickly. Recently I’ve hit a road block, because I keep getting matched up against levels 30+, and therefore getting destroyed. There should be a limit of like 5 levels difference either way for matchups. These improvements I think would help the game should they be added.

The problem is that when I start a game, it kicks me out and shows the loading screen and I’m at the menu. My connection is good and I know it’s not my wifi because it’s everywhere I go it does this. Not all the time but just 1/10 games that I play and I lose my coins for that. I play this game different places like my cousins house, they also have good WiFi and still kicks me out. 6 hours away I go to Houston TX and still, kicks me out at 5G 4 bars so I know it’s not my connection. Neither is it my phone, I’ve played on different phones, iPhone 11 and 6 also had that problem, and currently on a 12 and still kicks me out no matter what device.

If getting beat by a cheating game is your thing, then go ahead and download it. If you like to win and lose in dignity, then it’s okay. This is the worst cheating game I’ve ever played!!! Countless times, the buzzer comes and you can’t shoot, yet the other person is allowed to shoot and score points. I lost multiple games because of that and it is plain cheating and that pisses me off. I don’t mind losing to a better player but not when I lose by 1 point because the game lets him shoot after the buzzer and gives him the points!!!! What kind of nonsense is that. You need to seriously update and change that or call your game “the essence of cheating “. I give it a -5 stars
Skrew Out

This game is a lot of fun. I would recommend to anyone. There are two things that pose a problem though. The first being it recently started to tell me my internet connection is gone while I’m not on WiFi. I have great service in most areas, in fact, I’m typing this review without WiFi. Therefore, I know my internet cities fine when not connected to WiFi. The second thing that poses a problem is after you kick the ball, I’ve seen it score into the goal. Then, it’ll essentially show you kicking it again and the opponent actually blocks it. Kind of irritating.

Other than those two things I am very much addicted to this game. I definitely find myself spending a great deal of leisure time playing it. Probably not a great thing, but at least I’m not out being destructive.