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Preview  Virtua Striker 2002
- By Travis Coats
We now know that Virtua Striker 3 has been aptly re-named to Virtua Striker 2002, and to celebrate the change, we bring you a multitude of new screens fresh off the press releases.
Click each screen for a larger view. Enjoy!
Chris
-11.04.01
If you had told me ten years ago, as a young lad fully engrossed with his beloved genesis, that the two great houses that were THE video game industry would one day collaborate I would have sprayed you in the face with a syrupy mixture of Doctor Pepper and sour cream and onion Ruffles. Yet today Sega and Nintendo are very much in cahoots with Sega signing on to develop for the cube. Among the litany of development houses in Sega's arsenal Amusement Vision, recognized for their outstanding arcade titles and hot off the success of Super Monkey Ball, is jumping on board the Gamecube sports bandwagon with its latest incarnation of the Virtua Striker series.
The Virtua Striker series, like Amusement Visions other titles, began in the arcades and as such probably resulted in its somewhat lacking gameplay. You would not find any hardcore chaps from the seedy streets of Liverpool clamoring at the local arcade to get their soccer groove on. This time around though you can be sure that AV will focus its efforts on improving gameplay and smoothing out the rather quirky idiosyncrasies of control in its port. While Virtua Striker may have had some issues in the gameplay department its prowess with regards to graphics left little to be questioned. Fans of eye candy will be in all their glory with this title. In addition to players and stadiums rendered with obscenely high polygon counts and realistic texture maps Virtua Striker 3 runs at a steady 60 frames per second that truly needs to be seen to be fully appreciated.
- Based on arcade Virtua Striker 3 with tweaked controls
- Super enhanced graphics resembles real-life sport
- 64 playable country teams
- Each team has 22 registered players for more than 1,400 selectable athletes
- Features 13 different play stadiums
- National Soccer Team of Japan license
- Adidas Japan license for use of real balls and spiked shoes
- Multiple modes of play including Road to World Cup, Tournament and Versus Match
- One and two-player support
Since the heady days of the N64 Nintendo has had some of the best soccer simulations available. If Amusement Vision can rectify some of the bugs that plagued its arcade version then Virtua Striker 3 will surely be a fine addition to an already promising lineup.
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Release Date:
January 2002
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