Winning Eleven 5 Review @ IGN

I usually don\'t refer to sports reviews by \'professional\' sites, least not soccer reviews, because most of those reviewers have their heads up their @sses (or is that up EA Sports\' @ss?).

Anyway, IGN have done a decent reviewing of Winning Eleven 5, this is the first review of a soccer game by a \'professional\' site that actually MENTIONS a real-life soccer player\'s name and talks about real soccer (as opposed to drooling over the game\'s soundtrack).

Quote;
"The verdict is in: Konami\'s newest soccer game is the Gran Turismo of the sport."



http://ps2.ign.com/news/33149.html

The game also sold more copies than ZOE and Shadow of Destiny in Japan. I am praying that it comes to North America...

Oh brother, I just go and praise this reviewer for his soccer knowledge and then I see the captions for the screenshots;

This one\'s is;

"Penalty kick from a different angle"



God help us all....

Well at least we know from Famitsu, THE BOUNCER, and other sources that the game is still brilliant.

this game rocks,,,,i had a party over my house and this is all we played...i also got greatest striker which is cool because it comes with a voice command where you can talk in the game

[BizioEE]

Winning Eleven 5 is the Gran Turismo of the sport !!!!!!
I want this game!!!    Is it available now?   Tell me!!!!!

It\'s out in Japan now, and an enhanced version will come out in Europe in September/October.


I don\'t know if it will come to North America.

[BizioEE]

Originally posted by Lavan
It\'s out in Japan now, and an enhanced version will come out in Europe in September/October.


I don\'t know if it will come to North America.

Thanks for the info !  

I DLed Winning Eleven 5 yesterday. My ps2 is beeing chipped and will return monday, cant wait. I will ofcourse buy WE5/ISSEVO2 when it comes out in Europe

-h00k

Hookmonkey,

This forum is very much anti-piracy, and even though I do believe you will buy ISSEVO3/WE5 when it officially comes out in Europe it doesn\'t really give you an excuse to pirate WE5.

I\'m glad there\'s another soccer fan on these forums, but please don\'t talk about/mention piracy here or you\'ll be flamed.


And no, I\'m not insanely jealous that you\'ll be playing WE5 on Monday......ok, maybe I am.

BizioEE,

I posted links to some videos and pictures in another thread, check here;

http://194.47.16.181/forums/showthread.php?threadid=7246&highlight=Outerspace

i downloaded these videos a couple of weeks ago, and it looks amazing, especially the flares in the crowd when the teams are walking out. can\'t wait till this comes out, for the time being i\'ll have to make do with iss pro evolution 2 which i bought last week

[BizioEE]

Originally posted by Lavan
BizioEE,

I posted links to some videos and pictures in another thread, check here;

http://194.47.16.181/forums/showthread.php?threadid=7246&highlight=Outerspace

...I\'m watching the Movies...Thanks !  

Lavan/Forum, I understand your opinion about anti-piracy and I think that a developer like Konami really deserves money for a game like ISS, I purchased all the games of the ISS series legal since ISS deluxe on the SNES.  But with winning eleven 5 its  a different thing,  it wont be coming out until September, and since Im a huge ISS fan I just cant wait. But Im 100% sure that I will buy the european version of ISS. Again I dont support piracy but I just cant wait

Greetings hookmonkey

Oh no, I completely understand what you\'re saying, and like I said I do believe you. But some people have been mercilessly flamed for even mentioning a mod-chip, and again we don\'t want to get PSX2Central in trouble or anything, so I was just letting you know.

Please give us some impressions of the game after you get some solid playing time.

Cheers.

hi ive had winning 11-5 now for about 4 days and have played it for about 3 hours-5hours a night the following are my impressions :

first of all the players are amazing, when they emerge from the tunnel they look around at the amosphere almost as though they are surprised as such a turn out.
Its all there Davids orange shades , batistuta s headband , larrsons new shaved head lookthe list is endless. Right onto the gameplay - starts off tricky dispissesed several times in midfield but as u get used 2 the controls u get to master the moves. Chances are few and far between and when u actually carve out an oppening u feel fufilled even moreso if ur shot hits the net. It was revieved saying that the goalkeepers were poor in the preview version but i can ensure u thats bul$hit as the keepers produce amazing one handed saves resulting in goal mouth scrambles. The old over laping play is not so effective as the cpu al is devestatingly good i.e follow runners down the wing , pulling shirts off the ball etc. The replays are flawless. The dribbling element is stunning in WE 5 u can actually go on a mazzy run mabye tacking on 2 defenders but be warned dont be 2 confident the defenders can easily catch up as running with the ball is slower than manually just running. Well if any one else needs any more info ill be happy to help.

oh yeah its a 100% legitamite copy !!!

Originally posted by hookmonkey
I DLed Winning Eleven 5 yesterday. My ps2 is beeing chipped and will return monday, cant wait. I will ofcourse buy WE5/ISSEVO2 when it comes out in Europe

-h00k

if you\'re going to get your ps2 chipped, why don\'t you buy an original import copy of winning eleven 5? http://www2.cex.co.uk/gaming/product_list.asp have copies in stock for £65. if you want the game that bad, then pay for it, instead of ripping konami off!!!