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Disappointment...game for the novice only!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 11
Date: March 24, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Yesterday I received my copy of Virtua Striker 2...what a great disappointment it was. It lacks many aspects of an advanced game...the best feature are the graphics. You can't use the Analog Thumb Pad, you can't switch camera angles, there is no turbo button, there is only one type of tackle (standing or sliding depending on distance to player with ball), you can't switch players (crucial on foul kicks and throw-ins). FIFA might be an easy game to play agains the computer, but not against another player (and it allows for all that Virtua Striker 2 lacks). Personally, I wanted to return the game right after the first "vs Match" for the lack of challenge...unfortunately, I had already opened it. This is one for the bottom of the archives, for those who are more advanced...would be a great game for the novice who has never played a soccer game (especially a video game).

Please improve the games

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 18, 2001
Author: Amazon User

World Wide Soccer 97 & 98 for Sega Saturn was classic games for a person who really knows about the game of football. So when the Dreamcast came out, I rushed to buy the system thinking Sega Sports was going to give me something even better than the soccer games for Saturn. I was wrong, had to return the whole system and the game. Virtura Striker 2 is like going back in time, way back. Graphics and realistic play are non-existant for the Virtura Striker 2. I have a few little things they could of done to improve a top of the line game like World Wide Soccer, they could of added Italian, Americian, German clubs, added snow, and also more countries.The makers of the new soccer game should of also made it possible to trade players and also made it possible to role play thus enabling the player of the system to control the player of their choice, and last of all improve on the graphics which should be done on all new video games.

Games like this NEED a minus star feature!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: January 22, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Virtual Striker is possibly the worst soccer game of all time and it is a shame that the Dreamcast has to lay claim to it. There is no redeeming quality for fellow soccer fans and nothing to make it even worth a rental.

Go get UEFA DREAM SOCCER it is way cool and 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 times better than this excuse for a sports game. My thats a lot of zeros.

Major league dissapointment!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: July 03, 2000
Author: Amazon User

The video game is worse than expected. If we purchase this product thinking of a nice playing an easy to control game, and that should be possible because Dreamcast is the current more powerful console in the market, we will be really dissapointed. It is quite hard to control the own players, and, that implies no fun at all. Graphics can be awesome, but if we want to see realistic movements and not be able to play at all, let's turn on the T.V. and watch a soccer match. This Virtua Striker version is really bad, and I agree with the guy who said that if you have money that you do not know what to do with, give it to carity instead of buying this game. Please avoid this garbage at all cost!

For a more enjoyable time, go watch milk spoil

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: May 28, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is not just the worst soccer game -- its the worst game I've ever played! For all of the reviewers that gave it 4-5 stars and said that the bad reviewers don't understand real soccer, I have the following comments:

1. In real soccer, one can see the other players on the pitch. In Virtua Soccer, the rest of the pitch is represented by a rectangular box with difficult-to-see red and blue dots that represent your and the opponents players. This makes it impossible to know who you are passing to, as anything 5 or more feet in front of you is off-screen.

2. I don't know about your personal soccer playing experience, but when I've played and passed the ball to a teammate, they at least made some effort to go after the ball. In this game, there is a very good chance that the player will just stand there until the other team takes over.

3. Most big-league players can dribble or control the ball for more than 2 seconds. In this game, you better (blindly) pass in 2 seconds or you're gonna lose the ball. I tried for 2 hours to just dribble (not even forward -- just anywhere) -- not even to score -- just to see if I could learn how to maintain control. Impossible!

4. Real soccer never gave me vertigo.

My recommendation: find the developers of this game and slap them in the face.

Two other comments about the rating:

1. Why can't I give it 0 stars? Others were right -- 1 star is too much credit. If you absolutely have to give it something, how about 1 Rotten Fish?

2.

Not Fun. Not Fun at all.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: February 02, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I had never played a bad Dreamcast until I played this horrible pile of stink. I'm sorry, that was rude. But it was rude of Sega to release this "game" on the unwitting public. This game is not fun in the least.

Bad game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: June 21, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Doesn't play like real soccer. The graphics are good but the play is bad. Don't buy this ... game or you'll end up trying to sell it back!

You better rent it first

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: March 24, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game is frustrating, period. Maybe I just haven't figured it out, but I have NBA 2K and NFL 2K and I think those are the two best titles available for either sport. Basically the gameplay is completely different, and I would say much worse, than FIFA. Moves are limited, and its very difficult to figure out how to change players and how to control players. I'm not sure the graphics are better than FIFA either. Definately if you're considering it I would suggest renting first, otherwise you could be in the same boat as we are, wishing you could return it and feeling like you've just been duped.

Avoid this game!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 18, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This is the worst soccer game I have ever played. The control is really bad. When your player gets the ball the player "freezes" for about 2 seconds. Avoid this dog at all costs.

Objectively: avoid this game...very very bad value!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: August 03, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Aside from the "cool" graphics, which by the way one should already EXPECT from a Sega Console, the game has NOTHING going for it that really renders it a good value for your money. As someone else mentioned, you CAN NOT use the Analog Thumb Pad. I personally could NOT believe this! Buying this game is going back all the way to the player control capabilities of the FIRST Nintendo. What's the point of the "cool" graphics of a high powered console like Sega, if you at the same time, have the control abilities of the first video game consoles? This makes no sense. Unless you want to control your players just like you did the FIRST Mario Brothers (remember that up/down/left/right cross?), and at the same time PAY for a CD, high graphic level game, then go ahead and buy Virtual Stricker. I personally recommend that you STAY AWAY from this game, and pay for something that is REALLY worth the cost of a console like Sega.

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