It was later joined by the rebirth of the Premier Manager franchise and the club version of Actua Soccer.

The now-named Infogrames Sheffield House continued to develop sports games that functioned as successors to the Actua Sports games: PGA European Tour Golf, UEFA Challenge and Slam Tennis, which were all published by Infogrames in 1999–2000, 2001, and 2002 respectively, with Premier Manager 2000 releasing in April 2000.

A year later in October, the now-named Atari sold a majority of Gremlin's former assets to the publisher, who in Late-2003, re-released select titles including some Actua Sports installments on the PlayStation and Windows under the "Zoo Classics" budget range.

The game was developed with close ties to a local football club Sheffield Wednesday: their players provided hints to the programmers, and three players, Chris Woods, Graham Hyde and Andy Sinton, also served as motion capture models.

[7] Tommy Glide of GamePro, while criticising the game's lack of flashy special moves and mild sound effects, deemed it the most well-rounded PlayStation soccer game to date, saying it offered a good combination of FIFA's deep strategy and Goal Storm's sharp visuals and accessibility.

[8] Actua Soccer 2 (known as Fox Sports Soccer '99 in North America), once again included national teams, but a more polished engine (optimised in the PC version for 3D graphics cards), (in some versions) the full Italian Serie A league, and a new "scenario" mode assured good sales and mostly positive reviews.

The game also featured menu music and a cameo appearance from Welsh rockers, Super Furry Animals, which could only be unlocked after entering a cheat code.

Actua Soccer 2 was also bundled with Creative Technology's Voodoo 2 graphic cards, which helped to achieve widespread distribution and popularity.

Motion capture was provided by Sheffield United players David Holdsworth and Simon Tracey.

"Let Me Entertain You" by Robbie Williams was the only in-game soundtrack, while the classical operatic theme Cavalleria Rusticana (Rustic Chivalry) by Pietro Mascagni was played during the game's introduction video.

A sequel was developed in Europe in 2004 for the PlayStation 2 and Windows under the name Pool Shark 2 by Blade Interactive.