Customer Reviews

World Soccer Winning Eleven 8 International (DVD)

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4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

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

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

this game is really good i didn't think it will be as much fun as it is in the playstation but its great the only flow i see is that it needs to add a more realistic way for the season i mean i think it should add the ability to buy players from other clubs and sell some players from your club if that is available this game would've been the best soccer game ever

Thanks to my kid, who is 8 years old, I buy this excelent soccer game. There are many teams you can chosse, but some don't have the permition to put the name of their players, so are fictional. The controls are great. I don't agree with the comentary that is very dificult to score in this game. My son ten out of nine times score a goal when is in front of the goal kepper, also he scroe almos two goals in a game Mexico against Grece for long distance.
In all, for mi this is a very god game, and diferent in some aspects of fifa 2005.
Buy this game and enyoy, Have fun.

Game came on a single DVD, installed without a hitch, and would not play at all on either of my less than 1 year old computers.
I keep getting "wrong disc inserted" or "no disc inserted" messages when trying to start the game from either the start menu, desktop shortcut or autoplay window. A tech support representative from Konami e-mailed me an elaborate list of things to try, thinking that its some kind of conflict with some of my other software but I haven't gotten around to trying any of it yet...
It's too bad because I heard a lot of good things about the game and was eager to try it. Should have bought the PS2 version I guess.

Fair gameplay- throw-in marking is poor... players seldom check toward the ball to receive passes, switching to to player receiving the ball has a bit of lag.

BAD: chock full of huge Mcdonalds Restuarant advertising on the boards and stadium screens... yellow arches everywhere!

Annoying and not what I paid for!

I never feel more comfortable when playing the WE Soccer Series. WE8 is just the BOMB even though the older series were always the greatest.