World Soccer Winning Eleven 8 International (DVD)

by Konami

Product Features

• Take your pick from free kick, indirect kick and penalty kick moves
• Innovative dribbling system that offers more control as you go one-on-one against opposing players
• Choose between 136 club teams, 57 national teams (including the Italian, Spanish and Dutch leagues under the official license)
• Includes an on-screen referee
• Rated E (Everyone)

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0007IQFX6
• Item Weight: 1 pounds
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: February 16, 2005
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #30,614 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #16 in Video Games > PC Games > Sports > Soccer

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Pop in World Soccer Winning Eleven 8 International and you can kiss a few months goodbye. Directed by legendary football expert Shingo Takatsuka, WE8I is extraordinary in every facet, and serves as the perfect progression from its predecessors gameplay-wise, tweaking even the most subtle of elements.

A new dribbling system makes one-on-one match-ups dramatic and realistic, giving even more control than in past WE iterations. Visually, the game is an absolute jaw-dropper. Photo-realistic player faces are expertly done, and every player looks eerily like their real life doppelganger.

Meanwhile, the Master League is the game’s most impressive asset. Beefed-up to ridiculous heights, users have been given full control over their chosen team, from putting together a winning lineup to creating the team’s logo.

And for the first time ever, a referee is on the field running up and down the pitch, calling fouls and keeping players separated when the action gets too hot.

WE8I isn’t just a brilliant interpretation of the world’s most popular sport, it’s arguably the best sports game ever created.

Features:

• 136 club teams and 57 national teams
• Official licensed teams from the Italian, Spanish, and Dutch leagues
• 4,500 of the world's greatest soccer players
• New moves and tricks including new free-kick and penalty-kick techniques
• First-ever on-screen referee for the series, even giving advantage for minor infringements and stepping in to calm things down
• Enhanced training mode allows beginners to learn the basics of soccer, as well as to help returning fans master the vast depth of play
• Improved Master League, which now has more strategy through player development, aging, and injury, and a new 'My Best Eleven' option so fans can save their greatest teams
• The most detailed graphics ever seen in the series
• 100's of new life-like animations and AI that feels anything but artificial
• Players look and move just like their real-life counterparts and have facial expressions that change with the game situation
• English and Spanish commentary and menus

Product Description

Aim for the upper right-hand corner with Winning Eleven 8 International, a pure soccer approach to a supreme gaming experience. The series returns with a wealth of moves, tricks and more in-depth gameplay. Choose between 136 club teams, 57 national and up to 4,500 of the world's greatest soccer players. Players are brought to life through photo-realistic graphics and authentically modeled features, as well as individual styles of play, movement and ball control. Representing a mammoth step forward over its predecessor, every element of the game has been tweaked, reworked and enhanced for an intense soccer experience.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Loosing Eleven 8, May 9, 2005

By 

Dream King - See all my reviews

This review is from: World Soccer Winning Eleven 8 International (DVD) (CD-ROM)

I have been a huge fan of WE7 and I was definitely expecting at least slightly better gameplay for this one. I am deeply disappointed. This game makes me think of crashing my laptop on a regular basis and there is not enough words for the frustration I am having.

The first thing I noticed was the more fluent controls the game has compared with WE7. But the following days, as I started to get deeper into the game, I noticed lots of problems with the game:

1) The success rate of penalties in the game for a difficulty of 3 stars is around 1/3. Every time you are awarded a penalty you are having a few seconds of happiness just to watch the keeper punch the ball back to the field. You want to run to the ball which is just a few meters away before the defence but the player just rejects to move. Other times, the player just kicks the penalty outside.

2) There is no randomness in the game, as opposed to WE7. For example if you approach from the same angle on a one on one with the keeper, you always get the same result. After playing the game for 2 weeks, I clearly know what is gonna happen even before i make the move.

3) The keeper is 5 times a "human" keeper, which reminded me of the early EA sports FIFA series. In WE7, if you are very close to the post and shoot it, the keeper just watches the ball go in, which is very realistic. In this game keeper shows a super-human strength and saves it. Especially if you like scoring from outside, WE8 is not the game for you.

4) One good thing about WE8, compared with WE7 is, the bookings are very realistic. You don't get random yellows and you always get a booking when you (feel like you) deserve it.

5) Menus are very fast which was not the case in WE7. This is maybe the only thing I liked about WE8.

6) In WE7, in a one on one situation, the players that are chasing you could not reach you easily. In this one, unless you make a "super-hiper" dribble (which takes a couple of seconds to accelerate), they catch you like a chicken. Usually you hit the keeper before you get into that accelerated mode, so basically there is no easy "one to one" in the game, which is not realistic.

7) Headers from the post area, if the player is marked by another player, always goes high above the post. There is no slight randomness in it. The only way to score from a corner is to send the long pass before the defence gets into position. The fact that scoring is not possible after the defence gets into position, is very unrealistic.

8) There was a huge problem with player cursor selection in WE7. If you hope they fixed it, you are quite wrong. The player closest to the ball is selected regardless of the key being pressed. As a result, you press "down" hoping that the player above the ball will run down towards the ball, but what happens is the game chooses the player below the ball and you end up moving that player away from the ball. Then to fix it you press "up" and this time the game selects the upper player and you end up moving this player too away from the ball. The opponent is one to one with the keeper in the end. This happens almost in every game. As an amateur programmer, I can see that it is very simple to fix that by just taking into consideration the key being pressed. I don't know what Konami people were thinking when they were programming it...

As my last words. Don't buy this game. Instead buy WE7. If you already have WE7, don't ever give it away to your friend hoping than WE8 would be better. I did it and I'm in pain. It is much realistic than WE8 and FIFA-2005. If you have FIFA-2005, WE8 can be a slight upgrade (definitely not in terms of graphics).







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4 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, September 15, 2005

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Ariel Schwartzman (Miami) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: World Soccer Winning Eleven 8 International (DVD) (CD-ROM)

Graph are incredible, and the game is friendly user.
Great response, seems like you are playing with real players on the field

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars World Soccer Winning Eleven 8 International (DVD), January 15, 2006

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Alessandro Riccobono "Alex32" (Palermo Italy) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: World Soccer Winning Eleven 8 International (DVD) (CD-ROM)

The best game ever. I can't wait to see the 9!