World Tour Soccer 2006

Description

Despite some lackluster performances in recent years, the World Tour Soccer team hasn't given up on achieving some kind of result against the likes of EA's FIFA series and Konami's Winning Eleven games on the PlayStation 2 playing field. Like both of those series' latest installments, World Tour Soccer 2006 primarily looks to improve upon its predecessor through the introduction of new features and subtle gameplay refinements. Unlike those series' latest installments, however, World Tour Soccer 2006 ranks as one of the worst soccer games to appear on the PS2 to date, for reasons that will soon become clear.

It says a lot about World Tour Soccer 2006 that the most significant new feature you'll find in the game is its EyeToy Cameo support, which lets you stick something that vaguely resembles your own head onto an in-game player. The Digimask-powered process is surprisingly simple, and provided you set your EyeToy camera up in an appropriately well-lit area, it's actually possible to create a reasonably pleasing 3D likeness of your head, complete with freakish facial animations, within just a few minutes. Something strange happens between the initial creation of your 3D head and its first appearance in-game though, and more often than not your would-be doppelganger will boast either a ghostly white or a slightly unnerving purple complexion when he steps out onto the pitch. You can create a custom team composed entirely of EyeToy Cameo players, incidentally, but since each cameo weighs in at 685KB, when you save it you'll need an otherwise empty memory card to do so.