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Ultimate Beach Soccer
Generally unfavorable reviews
Based on 8 critic reviews
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Game Info
Publisher: DreamCatcher Interactive
Developer: Pam Development
Genre(s): Sports
Players: 4
ESRB Rating: E (Everyone)
Release Date: November 13, 2003
Summary
Get ready to hit the beach! The first Beach Soccer video game designed especially for fans of soccer and extreme sports! Discover all the excitement of this new sport which is taking soccer's greatest stars by storm! Set in unique and exotic locations spanning the globe to include: Rio, France, Japan and Venice Beach, California, Ultimate Beach Soccer's got it all. Awesome players, spectacular moves, laser shows, DJs spinnin' phat original tunes... and of course you can't forget the ladies! [DreamCatcher Interactive]
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What The Critics Said
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Game Chronicles
I was left slightly underwhelmed and rather bored with the entire experience. Sure, Ultimate Beach Soccer is new and different and that might be enough to get a few curious gamers to check it out, but I doubt it will keep their interest for more than a day or two.
Read Full Review >Gamer's Pulse
While there are many teams to choose from, the gameplay is uninspired, mostly due to the poor AI, which it won't matter what team you choose. You can see all that Ultimate Beach Soccer has to offer in less than ten minutes. OK, under five minutes.
Read Full Review >Team Xbox
With a more refined graphical engine, better play control, and more options, this game could have been very enjoyable. Sadly, all of the previous elements were executed at a poor level and the game seems very rushed.
Read Full Review >Gamezilla!
While I appreciate the designers’ efforts to "dumb-down" the controls, unfortunately it also makes for extremely repetitive and boring game play - translation...NOT FUN!
Read Full Review >Official Xbox Magazine
The result is a brutally slow pace and a game that doesn't pack much of anything for anybody. The AI is horrendous, the control is abysmal, and the announcing... [Jan 2004, p.73]
Xbox Nation Magazine
One begins to wonder where the company found the nerve to release a game that plays as if it were coded by the ultimate beach personality, Jeff Spiccoli. [Mar 2004, p.80]
Gamers' Temple
Ultimately awful. If this is Ultimate Beach Soccer, then I don't even want to see Mediocre Beach Soccer or Awful Beach Soccer.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this game is 6.0 (out of 10) based on 4 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
