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A Soccer title? With Disney characters? It's just so crazy it might work! Then again, it might not. Here's GCA's full review.
November 14, 2003 | 10:00 PM PSTby: Ahmed Enany
The only things these Disney characters have on their minds are pass, shoot and score. Lead your favorite Disney team to victory with Mickey, Minnie, Donald and other Disney favorites in Disney Sports Soccer! With 3 game modes, 7 outrageous stadium locations, 12 types of magic and 3 levels of difficulty Disney Sports Soccer delivers one insane soccer game!
Disney Sports Soccer contains enough options to keep you distracted and on your feet. The options menu allows you to customize your game settings. You can adjust your halftime to between 3 and 10 minutes and either set your overtime format to Golden Goal, Overtime, or No Overtime. Other options include fouls, player substitutions per game, magic, ball type, rumble and sound. Disney Sports Soccer requires a minimum 15 free blocks on your Memory card.
There are a total of 3 game modes to challenge yourself against the toughest teams available. In exhibition mode, you select a team and an opposing team to play against in a quick match of soccer. You have the ability to play against the CPU or 1-4 human players. Dream Cup Mode is where you can finally take your game to the next level in which you will play in a tournament with eight teams. Can you turn out #1? Perhaps the longest game mode packed in Disney Sports Soccer is Challenge Cup. In this mode, you select an opposing team to play against with the objective of defeating all other teams. As you advance and continue to top other teams in either Dream Cup mode or Challenge Cup, you gain a wide range of accessories and special abilities such as shoes and magic. By acquiring new “magic”, you can utilize those skills against your opponent (My personal favorite magic is freezing your opponent). There are over 40 shoes to collect in Disney Sports Soccer, so the fun never stops. Another good addition to the game is the option of viewing and trading items using the GBA-GCN linkup or 2 different Memory Cards.
The visuals within Disney Sports Soccer are impressive and amazing. At first before I even tested the game out I predicted that the game would probably have one of those boring visuals similar to the Nintendo 64 days. Boy was I wrong! The graphics are moderately good and surpass any expectations from fans. The characters run smoothly (but slowly) through a wide range of stunning arenas. These arenas are structured so fancy, that I could stay for an entire 30 minutes just gazing at the arenas! I believe that a good amount of time was spent on visuals and they were well worth it. Overall the graphics for Disney Sports Soccer were fairly good, but not the best or the worst.
The controls in Disney Sports Soccer are easy to learn and simple for even a 6 year old to remember within an hour of game time. Probably the only two things that might get frustrating at times is when you opponent shoots at your goal and you don’t have enough time to manage to switch players (to goal keeper) and block the shot. The other problem is adjusting your shooting power with the R button. For example, lets say I am on a 1 on 2 fast break and I attempt to shoot at the goal not too hard and not too soft, so I slightly press on the R button and the next thing you know the ball goes flying about 10 feet above your head. But overall, the controls are easy to learn and shouldn’t be too hard to manage.
In Disney Sports Soccer sounds don’t play much of a role. The commentator of the game is extremely boring and has no hype whatsoever. The only positive feature is the soft and smooth “in game” music while running up and down the field. I find this music soothing and relaxing even in the tight game situations, which can gradually affect your next play. Overall, the sounds are moderate but can greatly improve.
In my opinion Disney Sports Soccer has a lot to offer, but a few more game options would have greatly improved this game. Disney Sports Soccer gets old pretty quickly when playing in one player mode. But if you have a few friends around, then this game is much more fun and can be a pretty good multi-player game. Overall, replayability within Disney Sports Soccer is good and keeps you hooked for a while, but not for long.
Disney Sports Soccer is quite a nice game for both young and old audiences, but the lack of a few more game options and terrible commentators pulls it down from the more supreme soccer games such as the FIFA series. I would recommend renting Disney Sports Soccer before actually purchasing the title.
Disney Sports Soccer contains enough options to keep you distracted and on your feet. The options menu allows you to customize your game settings. You can adjust your halftime to between 3 and 10 minutes and either set your overtime format to Golden Goal, Overtime, or No Overtime. Other options include fouls, player substitutions per game, magic, ball type, rumble and sound. Disney Sports Soccer requires a minimum 15 free blocks on your Memory card.
There are a total of 3 game modes to challenge yourself against the toughest teams available. In exhibition mode, you select a team and an opposing team to play against in a quick match of soccer. You have the ability to play against the CPU or 1-4 human players. Dream Cup Mode is where you can finally take your game to the next level in which you will play in a tournament with eight teams. Can you turn out #1? Perhaps the longest game mode packed in Disney Sports Soccer is Challenge Cup. In this mode, you select an opposing team to play against with the objective of defeating all other teams. As you advance and continue to top other teams in either Dream Cup mode or Challenge Cup, you gain a wide range of accessories and special abilities such as shoes and magic. By acquiring new “magic”, you can utilize those skills against your opponent (My personal favorite magic is freezing your opponent). There are over 40 shoes to collect in Disney Sports Soccer, so the fun never stops. Another good addition to the game is the option of viewing and trading items using the GBA-GCN linkup or 2 different Memory Cards.
The visuals within Disney Sports Soccer are impressive and amazing. At first before I even tested the game out I predicted that the game would probably have one of those boring visuals similar to the Nintendo 64 days. Boy was I wrong! The graphics are moderately good and surpass any expectations from fans. The characters run smoothly (but slowly) through a wide range of stunning arenas. These arenas are structured so fancy, that I could stay for an entire 30 minutes just gazing at the arenas! I believe that a good amount of time was spent on visuals and they were well worth it. Overall the graphics for Disney Sports Soccer were fairly good, but not the best or the worst.
The controls in Disney Sports Soccer are easy to learn and simple for even a 6 year old to remember within an hour of game time. Probably the only two things that might get frustrating at times is when you opponent shoots at your goal and you don’t have enough time to manage to switch players (to goal keeper) and block the shot. The other problem is adjusting your shooting power with the R button. For example, lets say I am on a 1 on 2 fast break and I attempt to shoot at the goal not too hard and not too soft, so I slightly press on the R button and the next thing you know the ball goes flying about 10 feet above your head. But overall, the controls are easy to learn and shouldn’t be too hard to manage.
In Disney Sports Soccer sounds don’t play much of a role. The commentator of the game is extremely boring and has no hype whatsoever. The only positive feature is the soft and smooth “in game” music while running up and down the field. I find this music soothing and relaxing even in the tight game situations, which can gradually affect your next play. Overall, the sounds are moderate but can greatly improve.
In my opinion Disney Sports Soccer has a lot to offer, but a few more game options would have greatly improved this game. Disney Sports Soccer gets old pretty quickly when playing in one player mode. But if you have a few friends around, then this game is much more fun and can be a pretty good multi-player game. Overall, replayability within Disney Sports Soccer is good and keeps you hooked for a while, but not for long.
Disney Sports Soccer is quite a nice game for both young and old audiences, but the lack of a few more game options and terrible commentators pulls it down from the more supreme soccer games such as the FIFA series. I would recommend renting Disney Sports Soccer before actually purchasing the title.
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