![]() ![]() The characters all boast an indescribably visual flourish in their animations and motion capture work. You'll instantly recognize your favorite players, no matter what the team. The level of graphic refinement is ESPN NFL 2K5-like in detail and lushness. On the subject of players, this year's version once again betters its predecessor. For the North American market the game poster boy is US National Team defensive player Eddie Pope, who was selected to the 19 World Cup teams and who was twice named as the MLS Defender of the Year. The newly added licensed leagues (including the Dutch, Spanish, and Italian) enable players to see real player likenesses, player names and kits. Anyway, Winning Eleven 8 features 136 clubs, 57 teams, and 4,500 soccer players. This is always important, given EA's ridiculously license-heavy FIFA, which incidentally contains more licenses in that one game than all EA sports game combined. Following its annual goal to improve, refine, and broaden its game, Konami TYO has once again acquired new official teams and players. One new feature, called "My Best Eleven," offers players the ability to save their best teams for later use. You can check your funds, team salary, and the other teams' standings. Of course, if you just want to let her rip and play, there's an option for that too. That's a big time foul.īefore your first game, you can go to the locker room to discuss strategies, check the trade market, practice on the next field to assess it, check out players' skills rising or falling, edit your team, or fool around with general settings before actually playing. You're now able to quickly and clearly select teams, change formations, substitute players, and then sit back and absorb the lengthy opening game presentations. The game now presents itself with more visual flair, a better set of menus to toggle through, and a logical system that's not bogged down in redundant or cumbersome menus, pages, and text-heavy sections. This year's model comes complete with another set of significant improvements in all areas, the most obvious being presentation, one of Konami TYO's traditionally weak areas. If you even sort of like soccer and fancy yourself a competitor, you owe it to yourself to play this beauty. It's beautiful, filled with highly polished gameplay, exquisitely subtle and realistic moves, and state-of-the-art animations. Winning Eleven 8, due on February 1 on Xbox, PlayStation 2, and PC in the US, is a champion of soccer games. Over the last five years, Konami has fiddled with the American version, trying different things and finally in the last three years, nailing what is genuinely considered the world's greatest soccer game (though we haven't forgotten ESPN MLS Extra Time, which stunk.) In particular, the last two versions have been outstanding with this year's version looking to outrank them all. But Konami keeps coming back with newer, prettier, and better versions of its world-class soccer game, and whether we receive it first, second, or last, it doesn't matter, as long as we get it. ![]()
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