Virtua Pro Football
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 |
Gameplay
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.
Teams & 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
Europe
Americas
Asia & Oceania
1 : licensed only in the Japanese version
Stadiums
Many of the stadiums that feature in the game appeared are based on real stadiums, but have unlicensed names.
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Trivia
The former Italian footballer Roberto Baggio endorsed the Japanese version, having appeared in the TV commercial,[1] flyer and merchandising.[2][3]
See also
- Let's Make a Soccer Team!, a sister title by Sega which used the same engine.
References
- World Football Climax commercial at YouTube
- World Football Climax Archived 2012-05-21 at the Wayback Machine at Official site (in Japanese)
- Roberto Baggio at Giant Bomb