Charrua Soccer Pro Edition Review (Steam)
For this Charrua Soccer Pro Edition Review, we play an arcade soccer game that brings you the most fun part of soccer! Play friendly matches, and tournaments, or create your team and lead it to glory in career mode! Have fun playing alone or with friends, in competitive or cooperative mode!
Charrua Soccer Pro Edition Review Pros:
- Nice graphics.
- 1009.8MB download size.
- Steam achievements.
- Own in-game achievements.
- Full controller support.
- Graphics settings – ambient occlusion, anti-aliasing, fps counter, v-sync, resolution, fullscreen, window or windowed modes.
- Remote play together support.
- How to play is the optional tutorial area.
- Football gameplay.
- Three difficulties are also tied to assists – casual, normal, and hardcore.
- Slow motion kicks in when you shoot on goal and this can be enabled/disabled.
- Five match speeds.
- Assists settings – adjust pass, kick, run to the ball, and teammate assistance.
- Four zoom levels.
- Trophy cabinet to look at all the earned trophies.
- Five ways to play – friendly, tournaments, mirror online, career, and party tournaments.
- Friendly matches can be a full game or penalties.
- Each team has an overall rating based on their attack, midfield, defense, and goalkeeper ratings.
- You can change the ball used for a match.
- The shop lets you spend in-game credits on new stadiums, skins, heads and hairstyles, balls, and flag icons.
- Has men’s and women’s football.
- 14 tournaments to use and each has a set amount of countries and matches.
- Eight save slots.
- Online has a remote team mode where you select the team and all the strategies etc. and then leave them to play.
- For online you can play against friends or do random ranked opponents.
- Full team creator for online play, you earn exp to level up your players.
- Career mode allows four saves.
- Earn coins from playing and it doesn’t matter if you win or lose.
- Plays more like pinball football, just hammer it forward and hope it hits a player.
- Day and night matches.
- Weather types – sunny, snow, and storms.
- You can randomize everything from teams to weather to what ball you use.
- End of half/match breakdown.
- Really cool-looking stadiums.
- You get replays of goals and yellow/red card tackles.
- With the assists in the game is a lot easier to play.
- Easy to get into.
- A lot more fun playing against real people.
- Leaving a replay on will have it cycling through a couple of angles.
- Be a coach if playing isn’t your thing.
- Hitting the bar or post causes a cool cartoonist Klang noise.
- You can do men’s vs. women’s matches.
- Career has you creating a team but you can just copy and edit existing teams.
- Team creator options – team name, home stadium and name, flag, uniforms, players, and coach.
- You can set it up so the game plays itself and you just watch.
Charrua Soccer Pro Edition Review Cons:
- Cannot rebind controls.
- Controls are too basic and don’t offer much in terms of through balls, crossing well, etc.
- No way to change the angle of the camera just the zoom.
- Is more about getting lucky with your shots and passes rather than flat-out skill.
- The power bar system they have is not great or accurate as it’s just lined to indicate the intensity of the kick.
- Tackling or clearing a tackle is hard to do consistently.
- Women’s football is world teams only.
- Not Official names of players and or stadium.
- No goal celebration inputs so it’s all canned.
- Takes some getting used to the shooting.
- Placing a shot direction and power in free kicks is tricky.
- The music that plays is not great.
- Broken English in places.
- It’s quite grindy for the coins.
- Menus take a lot of time to navigate.
- Had the menus bug out and the controller did not work properly.
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Charrua Soccer Pro Edition:
Developer: BATOVI Games studio
Publisher: BATOVI Games Studio
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Summary
Charrua Soccer Pro Edition is a football game with nice graphics and a download size of 1009.8MB. It has full controller support, graphics settings, and remote play-together support. The game offers five ways to play: friendly, tournaments, mirror online, career, and party tournaments. It has men’s and women’s football, 14 tournaments to use, and eight save slots. The shop lets you spend in-game credits on new stadiums, skins, heads and hairstyles, balls, and flag icons.
The gameplay is more like pinball football, with a focus on getting lucky with shots and passes rather than flat-out skill. The power bar system for kicking is not great or accurate. Tackling or clearing a tackle is hard to do consistently. The music that plays is not great and the menus take a lot of time to navigate.
Overall, Charrua Soccer Pro Edition is easy to get into and a lot more fun playing against real people. It has a variety of options for customization and gameplay modes, but it can be quite grindy for the coins and the actions you can do are too basic.