International Superstar Soccer Pro 98

Not to be confused with International Superstar Soccer 98.
International Superstar Soccer Pro 98

Cover art featuring Carlos Valderrama
Developer(s) Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo
Publisher(s) Konami
Director(s) Shingo Takatsuka
Producer(s) Kazuhisa Hashimoto
Composer(s) Shinji Enomoto
Kosuke Soeda
Nobuhiko Matsufuji
Hideki Kasai
Akira Yamaoka
Platform(s) PlayStation
Release date(s)
  • NA: August 11, 1998
  • JP: November 12, 1998
Genre(s) Sports
Mode(s) Single-player, multiplayer

International Superstar Soccer Pro 98 (officially abbreviated as ISS Pro 98 and released in Japan in three editions: J.League Jikkyou Winning Eleven 3, World Soccer Jikkyou Winning Eleven 3: World Cup France '98 and World Soccer Jikkyou Winning Eleven 3 Final Ver.) is a football video game which follows International Superstar Soccer Pro developed by Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo. The Japanese version was re-released in 1999 as Winning Eleven 3: Final Version with some slight improvements. The English commentary for the game is provided by Tony Gubba.

Although it lacked FIFPro licence, it featured Italian striker Fabrizio Ravanelli along with German goalkeeper Andreas Koepke (on German release) and Paul Ince (on British release) on the cover. The cover of the Nintendo 64 version featured Colombian player Carlos Valderrama, and the game featured license from Reebok to use their logos in adboards and the Chilean kits. It is impossible to lose the match by accumulating too many red cards. After the third red card only yellows are shown.

The Nintendo 64 version is called International Superstar Soccer 98, and was developed by Konami Computer Entertainment Osaka as a completely different game.

Features

Game modes

The features six different game modes. Modes existing in previous version have been developed and the two new have been added.

Teams

Although team line-ups were to reflect 1998 FIFA World Cup squads there are some inconsistencies. For example, players named 'Rabanilli' (representing Fabrizio Ravanelli for Italy), 'Romedio' (representing Romario for Brazil), 'Zabie' (representing Luis Roberto Alves "Zague" for Mexico) or 'Ber' (representing Ibrahim Ba for France) did not participate in the final tournament. Some players in the game of both qualified and non-qualified teams had initially retired for their team one year before the 1998 World Cup. For example, Colin Miller (Biller), Randy Samuel (Zamual) of Canada and Carlos Hermosillo (Hermosio) of Mexico had retired from international football in 1997.

Winning Eleven 3: Final Ver.

The Japanese release, Winning Eleven 3 was re-released in 1999 as Winning Eleven 3: Final Ver.. The major changes and improvements have been focused on graphic and statistical updates rather than on engine itself. The most significant differences from the original are:

Reception

The game was a bestseller the UK[2] and Japan.[3]

See also

References

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