Nintendo sports games have no truck with realism, but the series has always distinguished itself in a very un-Nintendo-like way: to paraphrase Rodney Dangerfield on ice hockey, this is a fight from which a game of five-a-side football occasionally breaks out. Matches then, certainly lives up to the first part of its title. But perhaps there should be a ‘Two’ between the remaining words; by its publisher’s standards, this is lower-division fodder.
