[2][3] This was the first football video game to include a full 3D graphics engine with players rendered as three-dimensional figures.

Sheffield-based Gremlin used Sheffield Wednesday's Andy Sinton, Chris Woods and Graham Hyde as motion capture models.

[5] The Club Edition was developed using the engine used for Gremlin's previous football title UEFA Euro 96 England.

[5] Reviewing the Club Edition Saturn Power's Dean Mortlock gave a score of 65/100, criticising "sloppy controls and poor artificial intelligence", and called the game inferior to Worldwide Soccer.

[7] Lisa Savignano of AllGame had similar notes for the gameplay, expressing the learning curve for the controls took time and thinking.