World Soccer Winning Eleven 7 International

by Vivendi Universal

Product Features

• Choose from 100 teams, and 21 different stadiums, within 4 regional leagues
• Pick a team and work your way up the ranks, becoming division champions and eventually reaching the Champions League
• New player search engine lets managers search through the league for players with specific abilities
• Complete customization for more flexible Character and uniform design
• Players can earn points in training & exhibition games, to improve their stats

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0001ILKEG
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: April 6, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #35,140 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #20 in Video Games > PC Games > Sports > Soccer
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

World Soccer Winning Eleven 7 International is a virtual soccer experience that's second to none. It's got the realistic graphics and gameplay that make you feel like you're out on the Pitch -- and a host of other options, for perfect soccer fun! Robust multiplayer mode & multiple language menu system, for fun you can share with players from around the world Real-life gameplay with actual soccer pacing and balance and difficult AI -- it's a bonafide soccer challenge, every time

Customer Reviews

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20 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Better than FIFA, but, June 17, 2004

By 

"ugluk_the_great" - See all my reviews

This review is from: World Soccer Winning Eleven 7 International (CD-ROM)

I gotta tell ya, I loved this game when I first played it. If you are thinking what to get FIFA or WE7, choose the second. It's fun for a really long time.

I played this game from 2 star difficulty to 4 star. It was fun. But now it's just frustrating. I own 4 star... I have 60% ball posession, 20 to 3 shots on target. And I lose 1-3.

It's VERY annoying. I get a striker in front of the keeper, alone, 10 meters from the goal. I tap the shoot button, the striker digs the ball and sends it high to the sky... ok... I try again, I get my 90-accuracy, 90-shot power striker 15 meters from the goal. I shoot. He shoots with his strong foot, but like 5 meters wide. -_- Ok. I try more. Every time my strikers mess up. Once, I lose the ball. The striker runs, shoots from 40 meters out, gets perfect top corner past my world-class goalie. I check his stats - 50 shot accuracy, 40 shot power.

Um, what???

This game may be more realistic, it may have way more stats and tactic options that FIFA, yes it has all that, but it also has something that totally ruins it.

It switches players for you. A lot. And when you want a certain player to go for the ball and try to switch automatically, he rarely gets switched to.

Imagine this: one striker, one defender, one goalie. You control the defender. You're running along with the defender, in a second you'll tackle him. At that instant, the game switches players, because the defender who was supposed to mark that particular forward came within reach. The defender you were using simply runs away - it's not his job to mark the guy. The forward jogs, fools the keeper as if he was a third grader and taps the ball into the empty net.

Sound realistic enough?

Or, you intercept a pass in opponent's box, but let the ball go too far. Theoretically, you have posession, because you touched the ball last. But the ball's too far away, so the controller switches to some defender on the other side of the pitch. And what do the rest of the players do? What any player should do when your partner got a ball near the box - make a run. So instead of having my players chase the ball, all 5 or 6 of them run like idiots towards the goal while the opponent defender simply clears it way out.

Defenders going up is another awesome thing. I've got my best defender, my central fullback, sent off. Next thing I see when I get a corner is BOTH of the remaining defenders in the opponent's box. Guess what happens next? Opponent clears the ball, my defensive mid watches their striker take the ball, run, do the same fake on the keeper and shoot the ball in.

Or take the "awesome" way the players go for the ball. If the opponent touched the ball the last and it's going over the endline, and NOBODY is going to get it, it seems imperative that your player runs (without your being able to control him) to get the ball, tries to trap it right before it crosses the line, and voila, you got a corner instead of a goal-kick. And then on that same corner, your keeper barely stops a header and it goes right back to the opponent striker... Oh no, why would you run? Five of my players, both within a slide-tackle reach from the player, stare as he puts the ball in.

Note that this happens to the comp 100 times less than it does to you.

No, I know, WE7 has many awesome options. You can do so much that you can't do in FIFA 2004. You can't score with a defender from 50 yards out 9 out of 10 shots you make, for example. But if this game is realistic, my uncle is Bill Gates.

Great potential. But the controlling of the players needs to be improved a LOT.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Fun, when it's not frustrating, July 18, 2005

By 

J. Barringer (Orlando) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: World Soccer Winning Eleven 7 International (CD-ROM)

WE7 is a hugely addicting game. With the ability to create players and customize clubs, and the engrossing master-league function, there's a lot to keep a player coming back.

But note that none of those things actually relate to the gameplay. There are huge flaws in the game which will hamper the fun-factor once you get to be better than average at the game. First, shot power and shot accuracy have very little to do with how often a player scores. My 90-power, 90-accuracy forwards regularly miss the goal from ten yards out. Honestly, I could go into my backyard and kick more accurately than that, yet the game seems to think it's perfectly realistic. As another review has mentioned, the way the game auto-changes your player on the defense is nothing short of pure stupidity. I can't even count the number of times I've been lining up a beautiful defensive stop, go in to slide for the tackle when abruptly the game changes me to another defenseman, who executes the slide-tackle from behind and draws a red card. It's impossible to coordinate a coherent defense under any circumstances.

All in all, what kills the game is randomness. In two championship matches against Trad Bricks, one of the better teams on the game, I scored eleven goals and allowed one. In the very next game, against a team that was in the bottom half of the division, I couldn't score a single goal! As another review also mentioned, the game is flawed in how it handles loose balls as well. If there is a loose ball near the goal line (whether I'm attacking or defending), all of my players will gawk at it, as if they've never seen a football before in their lives. But if a shot ricochets off the goalkeeper and is heading out of bounds so that I'll get a corner kick, my players will run toward it as if their life depends on it, firmly booting the ball out of bounds and giving the opponents a free kick instead. I imagine that WE8 is better in terms of AI, but 7 is horribly deficient.

That said, the game was incredibly fun for me up until I reached the skill level where the flaws began to bother me. I still get a kick out of having my own personal club on the game, and plowing through Master League mode to win championships. But with as much fun as the game brings me, it brings just as much anger and frustration when players inexplicably miss wide-open nets, auto-change to a defender nowhere near the player with the ball, or pass the ball directly to the other team. Buy it, by all means, and have fun with it for a while. Just be ready to move on when it starts to bother you.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beats EA's FIFA by a long ways, May 24, 2004

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S. McMullin "Gaius Marius" (Montana) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: World Soccer Winning Eleven 7 International (CD-ROM)

I've played EA's FIFA series for several years now, but heard some good things about Winning Eleven. I received it last week and have already shelved my EA-FIFA collection to give away.

There's simply no comparison between the two when it comes to gameplay and modes available. WE's graphics are superb. EA's game commentary beats WE's because of the phrase variety, but with more commentary variety all aspects of sound will be equal or better than EA's.

The place where this game simply destroys EA's products is the gameplay. All I can say is, start reading about football tactics because you're going to need them to win, and no manual could be large enough to cover all the possibilities. 1) You're in control of the players all the time, something that EA games are horrible at, and 2) you can't glue the ball to your striker's feet, sprint past the defence, and blow a ball past the keeper. Not a chance here! Pass or die, set up well for shots, and think think think.

All-around superb football simulation!