

One thing that is new this year is the onscreen referee, which just basically mean that the referees are on the field while you are playing, something that has never been done in the series. But of course if you’re really into it you can manually enter all of your favorite stars names. It’s unfortunate that Winning Eleven 8 didn’t add much in terms of in terms of these licenses, as I know a lot of the fans are really hoping for some licenses. And how does this game differ from previous games and what do I think about this latest installment? Well one thing just has not changed since the series came to the US, and that is the lack of soccer license rights that the game contains.

So now we have Winning Eleven 8 for the Xbox, which is a first for the series as previous iterations have only been released on the PS2. With that being said the game was still an excellent soccer experience that still competed for the top spot for soccer games. One thing about Winning Eleven 7 last year was that in my eyes it just really did not provide us gamers with enough innovation. It always surprises me how the game just makes such a lifelike resemblance of the game of soccer.


Over the past few years I have checked out Konami’s Winning Eleven series and it surprises me each year how well the game plays and especially how realistic the series has been. So now we get to take a look at Konami’s shot at the goal with World Soccer Winning Eleven 8 International. We have seen EA’s FIFA be pretty successful and even Sony’s World Tour Soccer has been impressive as well. As confusing as that may be, the video game always seem to be pretty popular and there is a serious battle for the top soccer game. Probably the most dominant sport in most of Europe, we here in the States really don’t see much soccer action, yet most of our youth play the sport. Soccer, or in the rest of the world "football", could easily be described as one of the most popular sports in the entire world.
