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International Superstar Soccer (video game)

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Developer(s)
  
Konami Deutschland

Director(s)
  
Yasuo Okuda

Publisher(s)
  
Konami Computer Entertainment Osaka

Programmer(s)
  
Yasuo Okuda Eiji Nakagawa

Composer(s)
  
Harumi Ueko Hideyuki Eto

Series
  
International Superstar Soccer

International Superstar Soccer (実況ワールドサッカーパーフェクトイレブン Jikkyō Wārudo Sakkā Pāfekuto Irebun, "Live World Soccer Perfect Eleven" in Japan) is a football video game developed by Konami for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. It is known as the best soccer game available for any 16-bit systems, mostly due to its lifelike approach, innovative for the time, that showed diversified players in the same team, with an adult look and back numbers on their respective jerseys, corresponding to real-life players of the time.

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Game modes

  • Open Game: A simple friendly match, that can be played against the CPU, another player, or just watched as the CPU controls both teams.
  • International Cup: A mode that emulates the FIFA World Cup, (which had qualifying round. where teams are distributed in six groups of four that year) , teams each. The best 32 in this stage qualify to the knockout stage until the champion is known.
  • Mini Tournament: 24 international teams participate in
  • Euro Cup: A mode that emulates the UEFA European Championship, (which had an edition qualifying round. where teams are distributed in six groups of four teams each. The best 24 in this stage qualify to the knockout stage until the champion is known. that year),
  • World League: 16 international teams participate in a round-robin tournament with home and away matches.
  • World Series: A league competition where all teams play against each other in a round-robin system.
  • Training: A series of challenges in different respects (dribbling, passing, shooting to the goal, defending and corner kick taking, in order), where the player must complete these challenges successfully under the established time, with the goal to sharpening the player's abilities.
  • Scenario: Enables the player to select one among nine matches running their courses, in order to achieve victory before time runs out (all matches start during the second half, and the player's team may be losing or tied). A draw results in failure.
  • Penalty Kick: A simple penalty kick match. Each team takes five shots alternately and, if there is no winner after these shots, they go into a sudden death round.

    • The game uses a password system in order to save and load International Cup and World Series Euro Cup matches.

    Teams

    The game features 27 national teams, all of which based on their real-life counterparts as of the 1994 FIFA World Cup, UEFA European Championship, even in the case of non-entrants Austria, Denmark, France, Wales, Scotland and England, Portugal which are represented by their line-ups from the qualifiers. Of these teams, 20 made it into the real FIFA World Cup. Bolivia, Saudi Arabia, Greece. and Morocco. do not appear in the game, despite having qualified for the tournament. The Japanese version has only 27 teams which include 5 Asian teams: Iran, Iraq, North Korea, Saudi Arabia and Japan. England participates with the flag of Great Britain.

    Reception

    On release, Famicom Tsūshin scored the game a 29 out of 40. GamePro commented that though it fails to dethrone FIFA International Soccer as the best soccer simulator for the SNES because of its less precise controls and weaker sounds, International Superstar Soccer is a solid game due to its detailed and "lifelike" graphics, numerous options, and particularly its training mode. The two sports reviewers of Electronic Gaming Monthly both gave it a 7 out of 10 rating. Similar to GamePro, they remarked that the controls are imperfect but praised the graphics and play options. One of the reviewers complained that the enjoyable play-by-play feature of the Japanese version was taken out of the North American release. A reviewer for Next Generation assessed that "Providing fast action, a reasonably good commentator and pretty good graphics, International Super Star Soccer is a solid effort if not exactly special." He gave it three out of five stars.

    Allejo

    Due to lack of licenses of FIFA, Konami created fictional names to represent real players. One of them is Allejo, modeled after Bebeto. Seen by some as a Brazilian meme, Allejo gained popularity as a skilled player capable of impossible moves and goals. He was pointed as national phenomenon and he's been actually considered one of the best Brazilian footballers of all times.

    Alternate games

    There are two identical versions of the game, a translation to Spanish called FUTBOL EXCITANTE the translation was for the Japanese version and included Peru team, in Brazil was called Super Campeonato Brasileiro which only involved local clubs including the Brazil team.

    References

    International Superstar Soccer (video game) Wikipedia
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