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Virtua Striker 2 (1997)

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Virtua Striker might be the soccer game series with the oddest names. The "ver. 2000.1" means that it's the Dreamcast port of Virtua Striker 2 that came in the year 2000. The four previous versions of Virtua Striker 2 were all released only on arcade (the first one came as early as 1998).
The Virtua Striker series had a total of four games. The last two was (of course) released on arcade systems, but number 3 was ported to GameCube (properly named Virtua Striker 3 ver. 2002).
The original also saw a release on Xbox Live and PSN, but only in Japan.

Virtua Striker 2 is developed by Sega's own AM2 that was, at the time, Segas most famous best known team. Until their total merger with Sega in 2004 they developed games like After Burner, Virtua Racing, Daytona USA, and the Virtua Fighter and Virtua Cop franchises, before creating the Shenmue series. Not a bad track record.

It's clear as day that Virtua Striker 2 was originally developed for the arcade. The teams aren't customizable and the game modes are few - Arcade, Versus and Tournament modes only. But the core gaming is fun, really fun and it's easy to control since you don't even use all the buttons on the Dreamcast controller.
If you are a fan of soccer games, we highly recommend that you try at least one game in the Virtua Striker series. It's a simple series. It's not as in-depth as many of the later FIFA/Manager games, or even some soccer games that came out on the Dreamcast. But Virtua Striker don't aim to be deep. It aim to be quick footie fun.

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