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(Also known as "Urban Freestyle Soccer") Freestyle Street Soccer takes place in a gritty, urban environment focusing on 10 individual gangs, all based on the different styles, fashions and cultures found in the concrete Jungle. These teams fiercely compete for each other's turf with the ultimate goal to gain control of the whole city ... by any means possible. It's also just as important to look as cool as you can while trying to get the ball in the back of the net, as it's as much about respect as it is the final score. The game features an amazing and mind blowing skills and ticks system as well as a "dark-side" list of moves. The first-ever arcade-style 4 on 4 street soccer! Featuring fully licensed sound track to match team style including Method Man, TLC, Oxide and Neutrino, Feeder, Suburban, Buju Banton, Silvia, Kid Frost and Queens of the Stone Age. Ten gang-style teams with home playing fields and theme music ready to take control of the concrete jungle by any means necessary. Five hard-hitting game modes including Home Turf, Versus Mode, Freestyle, Street Challenge and Training Mode. Over 40 players with individual catch phrases plus trick, combo and special moves. [Acclaim]
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Acclaim
Sports
Players: 4
T (Teen)
Developer: Silicon Dreams
Released March 25, 2004
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Critic Reviews
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Gamer's Pulse
An engaging and challenging urban adaptation of the sport, Freestyle Street Soccer offers a solid arcade sporting experience. Balancing traditional soccer gameplay with easy-to-execute tricks and stunts, the game is simple to play.
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| 47 |
Official Xbox Magazine
The problems start with control. The response isn't razor sharp, the special moves aren't spectacular, and the Netbuster specials are too easy to pull off. [Jan 2004, p.73]
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| 40 |
Cheat Code Central
The gang vernacular and the gratuitous use of swearing may make this game appear cool but you may as well listen to an Andrew Dice Clay recording and play with a string-less yo-yo.
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| 40 |
Eurogamer
It's yet another example of a distinctly average "extreme sports" game that lacks the polish and creativity of the real-life sportsmen it's trying to emulate-slash-harness.
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| 40 |
Maxim Online
Passing and shooting in these high-scoring battles is as easy as squeezing the trigger on an Uzi, but complicated button-mashing for trick moves, muddy graphics, and a schizophrenic soundtrack of Method Man, TLC, and Foo Fighters all draw red cards.
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| 40 |
GMR Magazine
There's also a full set of uninteresting urban ethnic stereotypes rendered in starkly dated graphics and loudmouth fake gangsta sound bites. [Mar 2004, p.85]
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| 40 |
G4 TV
Squarely intent on holding the middle ground in every sense of the phrase, this isn't a terrible game, but it isn't especially good, either.
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| 40 |
Game Informer
The problem is that many of the tricks you do with the ball simply don't work. Worse yet is the abyssmal AI - particularly for the goalies. [Feb 2004, p.109]
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| 38 |
GameSpot
If nothing else, this game should serve as a fine example of what not to do when developing a street sports game, and if it serves this purpose well, hopefully no one will ever have to endure another urban-themed train wreck like Freestyle Street Soccer.
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| 20 |
Xbox Nation Magazine
The realization that the game looks like crap is essentially an afterthought...This would pass as a minigame mode in "FIFA" or "Winning Eleven," but no way is it ready to stand on its own. [Mar 2004, p.80]
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