[Editor's note: TheGoldenDonut is known for his amazing tip finding skills. In fact, he's so good at it, some of us wonder if he even has a real life. There are times when we won't touch a tip with a ten foot pool. Luckily for us, Donut subjected himself to the horrors of this disgusting game. It's even worse than Spanish For Everyone! -- CTZ]
2K Boston’s BioShock has received an untold amount of praise since its release in August of last year. Not only did it secure high spots on almost all major sites’ “Best of” lists (including Destructoid’s), it has also enjoyed large amounts of positive buzz from the gamers themselves. One moment within the game that is often brought up and spoken of with great fondness is the confrontation with Andrew Ryan about ¾’s of the way through. While I won’t spoil what transpired, many people found it to be an incredibly emotional high point within the game. Reverend Anthony even went so far as to call it “the single greatest noninteractive cut scene in gaming history.”
No offense to the good Rev or the masses of Rapture fans out there but as NeoGafer FortNinety recently pointed out in comparison to Animal Soccer World, a game released all the way back in 2005 on the PS2, it’s about as bland and poorly realized as any one of Uwe Boll’s film projects. After watching Animal Soccer World’s cut scenes myself, it struck me as incredibly strange that such a brilliant work of cinematography could have been ignored by the gaming public for so long. Through a bit of research, I quickly discovered the cause was because developer Phoenix Games (makers of other critically acclaimed titles such as Carwash Tycoon, Habitrail Hamster Ball and Roller Coaster Funfare) only releases their games in Europe. It’s truly a shame that such AAA titles would be denied to those of us living in America and I’m sure that every single one of us would gladly have Super Paper Mariotake an extra six months to arrive here so long as we could easily experience such personifications of gaming Nirvana … Bwahaha! Okay, sorry, I just can’t write anymore of this with a straight face.
Hit the jump to read more about this horrible game as well as checking out three more vomit inducing "gameplay" footage.
These cut scenes are bad. Really bad. Really really really bad. In fact I cannot type ‘bad’ in a larger enough font to express just how god-awful terrible it really is. Sure this results in some funny moments but most of the time you’ll be too busy slamming your head against a wall to notice when they come up. Every element is so frighteningly poor that, once put together, creates an abysmally long experience that actually started to make my brain feel numb the longer I watched. The repetitive music, unfluid animation, lame sound effects, terrible writing, the sad attempt at lip-synching, the horrendous voice acting and the fact that there is ONLY ONE voice actor all adds up to create an experience I wouldn’t wish upon my worst enemy.
The story in short is that after a dispute over a ball a bunch of talking animals decide to have themselves a soccer game. Forming into two teams, The Wild Dogs and The Jungle Kings, they begin to practice, have the game and end up tying 1-1 in a very unsatisfying conclusion. One fact that I couldn’t help but overlook was that Phoenix Games seems to have pilfered several Disney movies for their characters: Simba and his parents, Bambi, Thumper and Pongo were all readily recognizable. Heck, the lion even refers to himself as “The Lion King” at one point. And to confuse me further it seems that Animal Soccer World doesn’t even have any soccer gameplay in it, just puzzles and a coloring book. Judging by the cut scenes, I don’t hold much hope in the gameplay as being much of a redeeming feature. I truly feel sorry for any children whose parents bought this game for them. Worst gift ever would be a huge understatement.
Part 2: Teams organize and practice.
Part 3: The “big” game.
Part 4: Games ends in a 1-1 tie. There will be a rematch in six weeks. CAN'T WAIT.
I can take it anymore!!! I CAN FREAKIN TAKE IT! WHY BACKGROUND MUISC WHY! It just went ON AND ON AND ON even when other music was playing that dreaded terrible backgroumd music plays. It's unbearable.
"We boast the shortest time required from development to product release in the industry. Ordinarily the average development period for a game is 18 months, whereas Phoenix need a mere 3-5 months."
Dear God, WHY ? Part of my soul just died. The CD-i Zelda Games nearly look adequate compared to this.
I wonder if there'll be actually anyone stupid enough to buy this. And lastly, how can people program something like this and find the insanity to reject the urge to send it back to whatever ghastly place it came from ?
I would like to create a national holiday, honoring Donut's noble sacrifice to the Destructoid community by bringing us this awful, awful game.
On the other hand, I would like to curse you out, because I think I've suffered permanent braint damage from being exposed to that lead and mercury ridden video.
I know exactly what you mean. I don't know how I summoned the strength to watch all of that but afterwards it felt as though my IQ had dropped a good ten points.
I can think of many more things that are pleasurable than watching this video. Like,
Stabbing out my own eyes,
Getting blown by a pirahna,
Going to prison.
I seriously think this should be used as a torture technique for prisoners. Nothing but this playing 24/7 in the native language. I know I would be ready to talk in like 5 minutes.
I'm more upset by the obvious disregard for the rules of the beautiful game of football. The crocodile was quite obviously using his hands, how did the ref not see it?
Parts 2. 3. and 4 only get better. From the half retarded Candy bear to the unenthusiastic arguing commentry between the crows and the Inspector Gadget stork to the great line"Stand over there. If you mess up, I'll eat you." in faux mexicanese voice.
gotta give them props for making the longest intro ever for a soccer game. it's like the xenosaga of soccer games. and i love the fact that it's the same guy with a funky accent reading the entire script. just too effing cool.
Wow, I never knew African animals all had borderline racist Mexican accents.
Oh, and for people that think this looks like a Lion King ripoff, go read about "Kimba the White Lion." It's what the Lion King was based off of. FLAGRANTLY. It's very similar to this animation and ALMOST as hilarious.
Wow... How many kilos of drugs does it take to develop such a game? There's no way a sane person could withstand testing this game and telling just about everyone in charge to kill themselves. The marketing division deserves a special round of applause as well: this game was only released in Europe, and yet the title is Animal Soccer World as opposed to Animal Football World. Does this mean they tried a US release and failed? Owned.
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