World Soccer Winning Eleven 7 International

List Price: $19.99 Discount Price: $10.45

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

Accessories:

PC Gamer (1-year)

Customer Reviews:

Exit FIFA, Enter Winning Eleven 7!! [Posted on 2004-12-22]
I have to admit EA sports FIFA series has definitely been a center of attraction for football gamers around the globe for quite some time. Now after Konami has introduced their line of Football games starting with Winning Eleven 6 they have dominated since. The quality of Winning Eleven 7 has put EA sports FIFA series to shame because of it's realistic Football gameplay. The graphics are not quite as good as EA but realistic gameplay is all that matters and that is why this game gets 5 out of 5. There are a few bugs but it's nothing Konami can't fix unlike EA who keep transfering those bugs to every new game and don't really know how to fix them. This game is worth every penny unlike EA's games which should be worth a penny in comparison. If you are a true footie fan then you will enjoy everything this game has to offer from passing to scoring goals because in this game anything goes and there is no specific formulated way of scoring goals!! All I can say now is EA step aside 'cause Konami has taken over PERMANENTLY!!!

Fun, when it's not frustrating [Posted on 2005-07-19]
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.

I Never Thought I'd Like Soccer [Posted on 2006-06-23]
I have never been a fan of soccer, nor the few games I'd tried on various game systems. I just get bored with it very quickly. So, when I was given this game as a hand-down, I decided to take it and try it out. I didn't expect much from it, but I got a whole lot from it. The graphics are pretty nice for one, and it looks like a real game on TV. Plus, for the first time, I found a soccer simulator that was actually fun and almost addictive. It's a great game and fun on a rainy day. The only minor complaint I'd make is that the controls are hard, and it takes a while to get used to and finally score some points.

Great game [Posted on 2008-06-18]
The game is really good, this is the first of the series that i bought, i liked it so far. once you get used to the controls and motions, the playing is good.

What? [Posted on 2008-07-13]
Not sure if its because its PC or what but this game has not impressed me control wise. It's what the game has been known for and I am deeply disappointed. I've used the Logitech controller as well and the control in this game compared to FIFA 06 is atrocious. I'm putting it down to the PC, footie games should obviously be played on consoles because I loved the MLS game Konami put out on the Playstation 1 back in the day. Reaction time is HORRIBLE! A deeply annoying game especially since I spent the time to make every team real and players real since Konami won't pony up for the licenses. In the immortal words of Farley......AAAAAAAngry.

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