World_Football_Climax
Virtua Pro Football
2006 video game
Virtua Pro Football, known in Japan as World Football Climax (ワールド フットボール クライマックス), is a PlayStation 2 football simulation video game, released by Sega in 2006.
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Developer(s) | Smilebit |
Publisher(s) | Sega |
Platform(s) | PlayStation 2 |
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Genre(s) | Football simulation |
Mode(s) | Single-player Multiplayer |
The game featured a rock-paper-scissors like system for both 1-on-1 situations, and set pieces. It also had a player career mode which allowed completed players to be exported to Let's Make a Soccer Team! for use as youth players, as well as importing teams from the game to use in games and custom competitions.
Licenses
The game covers the top 6 European Leagues from the 2005/06 season but mainly featured with unlicensed competitions & teams. The only fully licensed leagues are the Spanish La Liga & Segunda Division, the Dutch Eredivisie & Eerste Divisie, while the Italian League name is unlicensed but with 32 clubs of 42 from Serie A & Serie B being licensed.
Leagues
- Premiership
- League Championship
- League 1
- League 2
- Division 1
- Division 2
- 1. Liga
- 2. Liga
- Calcio A 1
- Calcio B 2
- La Liga L
- Segunda Division L
- Eredivisie L
- Eerste Divisie L
1 : League name unlicensed, with licensed teams except Cagliari, Palermo & Siena
2 : League name unlicensed, with licensed teams except Avellino, Bologna, Cesena, Cremonese, Mantova & Rimini
L : Full license
Competitions
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Other Clubs
This list features the teams from the other leagues of the world, all of them are unlicensed
Rest of Europe
Rest of the World
- Al Hilal
- A Nacional
- America
- Auckland
- Avellaneda
- Boston
- Chicago
- Corinthians
- Cruzeiro
- Dallas
- Flamengo
- Fluminense
- Guadalajara
- Independiente
- Internacional
- Iwata
- Kansas City
- Kashima
- La Boca
- Los Angeles
- Nagoya
- Necaxa
- O Asuncion
- O Caldas
- Palmeiras
- Pumas
- Quito
- R Plate
- Santos
- San Jose
- São Paulo
- Tigres
- Urawa
- Vasco da Gama
- Viñeazur
- Yokohama
- Washington
National Teams
Europe
Americas
Africa
Asia & Oceania
1 : licensed only in the Japanese version
Many of the stadiums that feature in the game appeared are based on real stadiums, but have unlicensed names.
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The former Italian footballer Roberto Baggio endorsed the Japanese version, having appeared in the TV commercial,[1] flyer and merchandising.[2][3]
PALGN gave a score of 5.5 out of 10 and concluded that "[...] the game simply up can't match other titles available on the market."[4] PSX Extreme gave a score of 6+ out of 10 and complimented the quantity of available teams but said the game feels like a copy of Pro Evolution Soccer and the gameplay is too buggy.[5] PlayStation Official Magazine – UK called the game a "dated, derivative effort".[6] In a retrospective, Retro Hobby called it an "excellent football simulator".[7]
- Let's Make a Soccer Team!, a sister title by Sega which used the same engine.
- Virtua Striker, similarly titled football series by Sega
- World Football Climax Archived 2012-05-21 at the Wayback Machine at Official site (in Japanese)
- Rositano, Joseph (24 January 2007). "Virtua Pro Football Review". PAL Gaming Network. Archived from the original on 13 February 2007. Retrieved 25 February 2024.
- "Recenzje Europa - Virtua Pro Football". PSX Extreme (in Polish). No. 111. November 2006. p. 58.
- Roundell, Paul (February 2007). "Review PSP/PS2 - Straight to bargain bin". PlayStation Official Magazine – UK. No. 2. Future plc. p. 119.
- Fernández, José Manuel (2018). "Reportaje - El Fútbol Que Quizás No Conozcas... ...Y Cue Deberías Probar - World Football Climax". Retro Hobby (in Spanish). Vol. 4. Axel Springer SE. p. 17.