Soccer Street: Sports Ultimate team

Soccer Street: Sports Ultimate team for the game has some cool concepts, especially when it comes to stylus-exclusive control for a sports game,

but it just doesn't have that addictive fun factor to keep players' interests.

A handful of matches and boredom slowly starts to creep in.

Last year's game was pretty bad: awkward visual and gameplay glitches caused some serious issues in the game's enjoyment,

and the core mechanics really weren't balanced all that well.

The game developer exient's usually rocks pretty well in its handheld games like Madden,

soccer, and tiger woods, but soccer Street 2 was clearly the team's darkest hour at that point.

The same studio's been given a second chance at the franchise and a lot of the problems have been cleaned up:

the game definitely looks better and plays tighter, and incorporates much more thought out touchscreen controls.

But that pesky core mechanic is still a problem: the tightened up production can't save the fact that soccer Street just isn't that fun to play.

The stylus control was clearly where much of the game got its focus. Using the D-pad (or the buttons, for the lefties),

you maneuver your chosen athlete in the 3D arena. But all of the actions – passes, kicks, and tricks –

are handled by taps and flicks of the stylus on the touch screen.

Passing to a player is a simple tap in the relative "zone" of the touch screen to where the player is in relation to your character,

and shooting is a upwards stroke in the direction you're aiming on the goal.

The game camera, by default, is a forward moving perspective where you're always looking at your goal,

almost like playing a hockey game on a console system. Since handheld gamers have their own view of the action,

this works well since the game never has to switch the camera to the other goal in order to be fair to the other player.

As a result, the contextual strokes on the touch screen are fixed and never change…even when you might decide to change the camera to match the side-on perspective of the console game.

So it's not recommended to change it.