World Cup 98 is a soccer video game released for the Nintendo 64, featuring the FIFA World Cup tournament. Players can engage in matches using real group formations or random team selections. Each game is set in accurately recreated venues from the 1998 tournament. Unlike real life, group stage matches do not extend to extra time or penalties, while knockout rounds do.
The main feature of the game is the World Cup tournament itself, where the player may use either the actual groups used in the finals, or groups composed of a random selection of the included teams. Each match takes place in a recreation of the venue it was played in the actual tournament. As in the real tournament, group games do not go to extra time or a penalty shootout but knockout matches do.