Real Soccer Ultimate Team

Real Soccer Ultimate Team is the total package.

From its smooth flowing start up menu you can select from Exhibition, Game Modes, Multiplayer, and Training.

Exhibition is a straight forward "pick your team and play a single game against the computer" affair,

and multiplayer allows for up to four person multi-card play.

The heftiest of options comes from selecting the Game Modes menu. Here you can choose from Cup, League, Penalty Kick, and Trophies.

Cup allows you to choose from six different cup-seeking journeys ranging from the African Cup to the International.

Selecting League will allow you to pick any of the two hundred teams and play through an entire season.

Each team has its own stats representing their overall skill level,

allowing you to select a team that's already a powerhouse or a struggling team that will put your own skills to the test.

Penalty Kick is just a simulation of Real Soccer's in-game penalty shot.

When kicking, select from six areas of the net and gauge how hard you want to kick.

As the goalie, you also select one area of the net and hope that you made the right choice.

All in all, it's a split second mini-game, but a fun one.

Now that you know what different ways there are to play Real Soccer, let's talk about how you play them.

Real Soccer 2017 offers two distinct playing styles. There's the traditional face button layout and an interesting touch screen approach.

Both traditional and touch play options offer differing move sets for offense and defense.

The traditional layout makes great use of the face buttons.

Basic moves like passing and shooting are easy to do and responsive,

and more advanced moves like through passes and Marseille Roulettes are easy to master.

As mentioned, real also offers football a touch based play mode.

Playing Real Soccer Ultimate Team in touch makes use of the d-pad and the touch screen.

You still use the d-pad to move your players around, but all of your executable moves (passes, shots, etc.)

are performed by drawing various lines or shapes on the touch screen.

The moves in touch play respond fairly well to even the sloppiest of entries,

but remembering which pattern invokes which move can be a strenuous task.

Remembering which type of zig-zag line means a one-two and which one means a flip-flap on the fly is fairly difficult.