World Soccer Winning Eleven 2010
Pro Evolution Soccer 2010 or World Soccer Winning Eleven 2010 as it is known as in Japan is the next instalment to the Pro Evolution Soccer series. It was announced on 8 April 2009 with a scheduled release date of 23 October. As of its predecessor, Lionel Messi will once again be a key endorsement player alongside Fernando Torres, by featuring throughout the promotion and development of the game. World Soccer Winning Eleven 2010 is developed by Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo and published by Konami for the PlayStation 3 platform. The game was designed by Shingo “Seabass” Takatsuka, Naoya Hatsumi, Toru Nagai, Satoshi Suzuki and Jon Murphy. Among some of the features to be expected include improved visuals, animations and moves, including live player expressions and movements that will change according to conditions on the field, with rework of animations of dribbling and shots on goal, as well as individual skills. In terms of gameplay, World Soccer Winning Eleven 2010 is expected to be more realistic and to include more versatile goal keepers and greater control over penalties in terms of placing and accuracy. Not only that, there will also be an enhanced online experience with improved online play, downloadable content and more updates. In addition to that, AI has also been improved with referees being reworked to make more balanced calls during matches. Greater strategy control will also be introduced with various strategic elements including customizable pass frequency and width of play. As for the match-day atmosphere, it is said to give a better taste of home and away crowds who will react spontaneously to all the action on the pitch. In addition to that, Master League has also been enhanced with improved managerial aspects resulting in an increased managerial career lifespan. Another new feature would be the 360-degree control via the analogue stick controller and the DualShock’s D-Pad.
Reviews
World Soccer Winning Eleven 2010 is said to be a game that is easily the best series entry on the current generation of hardware. It is football concentrated, with the game’s greatest moments boiled down into something that is instantly gratifying and almost always produces encounters that are thrilling and intense. Konami has also worked with the frame rate, a concern that dogged last year’s edition at every turn, but now passing feels a lot crisper, and animations are delivered the instant you expect them. Not only that, there has also been visual upgrades giving the whole experience much more full of life, and particularly evident in the replays which have been rebuilt to their former glory after an attempt that could only be called an abomination in the 2009 game. In addition to that, there have also been obvious enhancements to the lighting too, in particular in the way that the environment influences the gameplay experience. There is also an impressively deep managerial component in which players can get right into the nitty gritty of team tactics, visualised predominantly as slide-bars that allow you to manipulate everything from width-of-play, to forward pressing, where the defensive line sits, the frequency of passing and so much more by sliding them up and down. Other than that, World Soccer Winning Eleven 2010 also maintains its Become A Legend mode which is actually a retaliation to FIFA’s Be A Pro Mode, both of which puts the player in control of a single player on the pitch with the camera perspective doing away with the traditional ‘grandstand’ angle to provide a third-person view on the action. As for the gameplay, World Soccer Winning Eleven 2010 features AI that is back up to par, in particular with the way midfielders and defenders protect open pasture, making it a little harder but a lot more rewarding to work a shot on goal.
“While the preview build that we saw was limited in terms of teams and modes, we did manage to take a sneaky look around the menu system to find out what’s in store. Champions League mode looks like it will make a return from last year, as will Become a Legend mode, where you take control of a single player through his career. The visual presentation is slightly different from last year, with football tickets and magazines used to present some of the game options, but the music is still generic, covering genres described as “new wave” and “tech funk.”” (GameSpot, 2009)
