International Superstar Soccer (video game)
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| Developer(s) | Konami Deutschland |
| Publisher(s) | Konami Computer Entertainment Osaka |
| Director(s) | Yasuo Okuda |
| Programmer(s) | Yasuo Okuda Eiji Nakagawa |
| Composer(s) | Harumi Ueko Hideyuki Eto |
| Series | International Superstar Soccer |
| Platform(s) | SNES |
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| Genre(s) | Football (Sports) |
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Single-player Multiplayer |
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.
The game uses a password system in order to save and load International Cup and World Series Euro Cup matches.
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.
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.
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