Volleyball World Cup Venus Evolution Isolation
Update: July 10, 2008«©NCSX» The first round of the FIVB Women's World Cup 2007 kicked off on November 2, 2007 at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium and Spike front runs the event with their release of Volleyball World Cup: Venus Evolution. The cost of the game stands at JPY6800 but we would have priced it at JPY4800 to better reflect the market reality and potential of the product. Alas, the cost of official licensing is dear and Spike had to recoup the bulk of their investment from retail sales. The other source of revenue that Spike was able to obtain was in-game advertising from Mikasa Sports, the Japan Volleyball Association, and Fuji Television. The FIVB World Cup banner also rings the arena.The Japan Women's Volleyball Team is the featured squad in the game which means their likenesses are recreated in the game in fairly decent fashion. We can sort of recognize super players like Miyuki Takahashi and the five freshmen of the 18-player team: Akiko Ino, Masayo Eguchi, Midori Takahashi, Shuka Oyama and Yuki Ishikawa. Finally, coach Shoichi Yanagimoto also appears in the game.
PC Specs: CPU: Intel Core i7 @ 3.4Ghz GPU: Nvidia GTX 285 768MB Build Description: PCSX2 1.1.0 r5452- Windows GSdx 5442 SSE41. TGS '07: FIVB Volleyball World Cup: Venus Evolution Hands-On Volleyball without the beachwear and jiggle physics: We check out Spike's serious take on indoor volleyball.
The international teams that made it to the World Cup are all in attendance and players may enjoy an Exhibition Mode, the World Cup Mode, or a World Championship Mode.When the ball is in play, a green spotting cursor focuses on the ball and the time to hit is when the green outliner touches the boundaries of the ball. The 13 teams in the game are from an international base including the United States, Poland, China, Brazil, Cuba, Korea, and others. The motions of the athletes are fairly convincing in terms of realism and their feints, jumps, and spiking motions are reminiscent of watching a game on some sports channel somewhere in the world. When the girls win, they'll cheer and hug each other as teammates will do. Strategy and combination moves may be set up before the game begins in an easy-to-use template screen where the four trigger buttons on the Dual Shock are used to trigger moves and strategies on the play field.NCS Game Notes» The title screen features two pink colored volleyballs side-by-side with the continents shown upon them.
Volleyball World Cup Venus Evolution Isolation Review
Frankly, they're designed to look like breasts. Nice subtle exploitation.» An announcer performs the play by play and the girls smack hands with each other and hold their hands to their hearts before the game starts. There's pomp and camera flashes from the crowd and the cheer is audible.» The action moves reasonably well during a match but the frames of animation aren't the best so that the girls occasionally look like they're sliding across the floor instead of walking or running. When the ball is in play, the 'X' and 'O' button markers will appear near the players to show what's available in terms of moves to the highlighted players. The 'SQUARE' and 'TRIANGLE' buttons are also used to trigger other players when the ball is moving around the playfield to indicate who can smack it or pop it higher.