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Good A.I. but horrible basics.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 13
Date: May 15, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I admit this game as good A.I., but the names of the national team members were dead wrong. I don't know who did the research, but he/she should be fired! How do you get the names of the national team members? It is so easy to find the names on the internet. I just can't believe that a video game company would get the names wrong. If you don't care for those basic fundamentals of a game, get this game for its good A.I.

Close, but no cigar.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 11
Date: May 22, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Overall this is a decent game. However, it has some major basic problems in what it lacks. First, there are not enough controls to use in the game such as dribbling or passing moves. The FIFA games have much more of these. Second, the ratings are way off. I am not surprised since this was made in Japan by Japanese, that the Japan national team is rated higher than they actually should have been in comparison to the real time (and they rated South Korea kind of low which also wouldn't surprise me from Japanese designers if there was some alterior motive involved - but I won't complain since the Korean rating in the game is not too far from the truth since they can't win a game against a real team unless they fixed the referee as in the last World Cup). Brazil is really underrated especially in speed, and the United States is very underrated especially considering the players improvement since their high performance in the World Cup. Third, the names on many of the teams are just so messed up it's ridiculous. And finally, there are just not enough teams, especially national teams. It's a little hard to justify trying to make a mock world cup with just 50 teams overall to choose from. It really minimizes your options. With more teams, more accurate ratings, and more controls, this would have been such a great game, but it's just decent. It's worth a rental if you don't have personal standards for a soccer video game.

Really bad game

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 15
Date: June 02, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is really bad, even though the gameplay may be challenging, that the players have fake names is ugly. No real club teams, no real advertising, and bad sound. Even though fifa 2003 has not as good gameplay, it's a much more exiting game because you play with the real players, stadiums and the sound is magnificent.

Worse Game I ever play

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 16
Date: November 18, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Even the motion of the players are better than ever in term of realistic, the game play is really really BAD. The graphic is also not too good.
Player Controlling can not call playing game. It's too unpredictable in controlling, hard to control the move of players. They create some kind of buffer to stores the command so that it make a delaying response which make this game really up to the LUCK big time and can not count on the controller we holding anymore. However, A+ for motion of the players.

CAUTION! No Licenced Teams and Players!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: April 18, 2003
Author: Amazon User

As the biggest "Fussball Fan" I hate to do this but I must -----------------CAUTION! ------------ No Licenced Teams and Players! No Licence to play a UEFA Cup? No real Jerseys? Everything said about this game is true, lovely gameplay, graphics, but to me it's worthless without the REAL Teams & Players. Do you really want to play Moskinastaat against Fornatian?

great gameplay, but diffiult

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: May 25, 2003
Author: Amazon User

this game is actually in my opinion the best soccer game ever i have played so far. the master league is addictive and will keep you busy playing more and more----pro

now what makes me give this game 3/5 well let see. the game is addictive but playing it will make your finger sweating. the Com A:I in this game is very challenging. imagine me playing in easy difficulty and it was very challenging and takes a longer time to score goal.
i also find the commentary repetitive and not only that, winning a cup should give the player free time to celebrate with their cup but you won't find that in this game instead if you win a cup it will show your team picture with holding a cup.
overall the game is good but annoying with the difficulty level. i will say buy the game if you don't care how difficulty it is! Hope this help

Superb but...... there is a better version!!!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: April 01, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I have been playing winning eleven since it was called "goal storm 97" and have every single title of the same family from Konami. From My personal experience there is no comparison between WE and FIFA because FIFA is extremely easy and not very realistic I mean a lot of people in BKK can beat many teams in World Class mode 15 -0 or more including myself. While I can only manage to beat MAN UTD(best score so far) in Extreme mode season 3 of Master League 8-1!!! FIFA football (soccer) games are the same as English food "great presentation unfortunate about the taste!!!!"

The game play of WE International has improved dramatically since the last version. Unfortunately the name of players are not correct and is not updated enough, for instance Tony Adams is still at ARSENAL. This is simply because it is not the newest WINNING ELEVEN game!!!!!

At present the BEST of Winning eleven series is called "WINNING ELEVEN 6 FINAL EVOLUTION English Edition" There are more teams in the master league but honestly who would want to play as Aston Villa (no disrespect to the club). This game is truly fantastic with smoother control when dribbling, it is now possible to bamboozle 4-5 defenders from players such as Henry, Ronaldo or just leave defender eating your dust from the like of Owen and Shevchenko. The passing is crisp and free kicks are a lot easier to master. You can beat teams ( 5 stars diff) like Brazil and England using lowly Japan or South Korea by passing the ball around and waiting for the perfect time to put a through ball to one of your strikers. It is also a lot quicker in term of game play speed than Winning eleven international. Players stats are included (including completion rates of passes, dribble, shots etc.) at the end of each match.

There are a few let downs however as Advantages are not recognised by the invincible refereee. Tackles from behind are sometimes went un-punished!!! Nonetheless it is still the BEST soccer game to date.

What else can I say TRY to get hold of WE 6 Final Evolution English Edition asap and you will know that everything I say is true......

5 stars? come on

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: January 28, 2004
Author: Amazon User

if 5 stars implies perfection, then there are a few on here who need their heads examined. without a doubt, we11 is the best football game but it has more than its share of problems:

- licensing is something konami should really shell out a few extra yen for.. it's silly to think that there is a huge glut of 'fifa-only' football fans in the world who won't buy this game simply because of the absence of a license! i don't particularly fault these fans either, after all they'll be paying for the game. personally i couldn't give two sh*ts about real names or not but konami should have a serious look at their business model!

- gameplay is difficult and sometimes arbitrary. people claim that all manner of situations are possible with this game but i've had it for 2 years and usually score from just outside the box WAY more than any other time. have scored from a corner just once. (owned iss pro '98 and played it to death so this isn't my first konami game either.) on level 3 i found the computer would ratchet up the difficulty during games without warning, almost as if it wanted something to happen, eg. a completely ridiculous sequence of skillful moves leading to a goal that you would imagine only a div. 1 or 2 team capable of pulling off.

- the game forces you to learn the advanced button combinations in order to 'unlock' more depth. in a football video game (and this applies in real life football) it shouldn't be necessary to have to hold down a shoulder button while passing the ball and pressing another to perform a 1-2 or whatever.. simple one-touch button pass back to the original player should be enough, bang. i pass it to you and used the same button to ping it back.. instead the ball often drifts into no-man's land where the defense gobbles it up.

- the through ball needs serious re-working. its use is tilted too much toward attack; you should be able to use it outside your own box just as you should in the opponent's box. instead, the game thinks you want to hammer a 25 yard ball on the ground up the field to an attacker off-screen, when all you want is a simple 4 yard run into space from your defender between opponents!

- as someone mentioned earlier in these reviews, there seems to be a buffer around your player that causes analog stick movement/reactions to be sluggish. i've noticed this with higher-rated players too so it's not just a rating/poor player problem. there is a fundamental dearth of 'felt response' when moving and even shooting..

- shooting is a bit mixed up as a whole too, often a shot you've suspected of being a dribbler ends up speeding into the bottom corner while one you imagine bound for the top corner is kept out by an unrealistic save.

- long balls are almost never hit into space over your (or defender's) head. always a 50-50 heading challenge. this isn't really like football

- overall presentation is a bit too focused on recreating what football is like on tv, a fifa-syndrome that i'd prefer konami to steer well clear of

- goal celebrations are just a joke

- commentary in all games is stupid, same here

- crowd sound is sub-adequate, reactions are delayed and hollow sounding, non-immersive (it really feels as if the developers watch a lot of ball on telly but don't actually go to games!)

- menus are terrible, clunky, and frustrating - it really shouldn't be this difficult to enjoy yourself!

like i say, i've played this game quite a lot and believe whole-heartedly that simple, effective football in a game should be SIMPLE to perform. a more intuitive control scheme. i'm obviously biased from iss '98 which i thought had an incredible balance and beautiful feel. i haven't played a fifa in years so can't fairly compare we 6 to that game.

do yourself a favor and rent this game! it's the best but there are still plenty of areas of improvement.

World Soccer Winning Eleven 6 International

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 20
Date: October 03, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I haven't played this game but all I would say to anybody is play Pro Evolution Soccer and the upcoming Pro Evolution Soccer 3. These are THE games to play for football/ Soccer without a doubt. Forget the rest play the best!!

Good game play

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 8
Date: October 30, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The game play is good. You can be certain countries, but the characters are fictional. The controls take a little time to get used to though. The bad part is the graphics. I found them a little jaggedy.

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