New Star Soccer

We're taking it one game at a time...

In New Star Soccer you have to manage your life as a soccer player, including but not limited to your training, your relationship with the media and your coach, your fans and your lifestyle, which includes your poshy girlfriend once you have one. Games are summarized unless those plays when your character takes part, then they're like minigames wherein you have to select strength and angle to spin or not the ball and aim to the goal or pass to a fellow player. Likewise, sometimes we'll have to intercept the ball. Training works also through minigames, either memory or skill, in order to improve your stats. in addition, singular events may increase or decrease your energy, and from time to time you have to face dilemmas regarding two of your stats or relationships.

This game has a remarkable fake, PES-like database with teams from any imaginable league, so you can't imagine how great is to start your career in a 2B team and climb up to international teams and competitions. Its graphics are poor, as it's the user interface, but its gameplay is so deep and replayable that soccer fans will love no matter what, even if this means that arcade soccer players will quickly fly away from it because neither Messi nor CR7 appear in the cover.

We only hope that in the future New Star Games launches more games like this, not only about soccer, but also track and field, football, gymnastics, fencing, whatever.