1998 · Namco · Association football · Sports

LiberoGrande

PlayStation console exclusive

Released: 26 November 1998
Platforms: Arcade PlayStation
Genres: Association football Sports
Developers: Namco
Publishers: Namco
Modes: Multiplayer Single-player
Perspective: Third person
Country: Japan

About

LiberoGrande is a 1997 association football video game developed and published by Namco for arcades. It was converted for the PlayStation in 1998.

A typical arcade football game in its nature, LiberoGrande introduced a novelty factor previously found in Namco's Top Striker for the Nintendo Entertainment System: the ability to play as just one player, instead of controlling the whole team, always swapping for players nearer the ball. This idea was later used by Konami in Winning Eleven / Pro Evolution Soccer titles in the Become a Legend mode, and by EA Sports in its various sports game franchises with the name Be a Pro.

Keywords

soccer

Media

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Gameplay

The player starts to choose one of the star players, and then a national team. Each star player, based on a real football player but with changed names, except for initials (Zinedine Zidane is Zenon Zadkine, for instance) is rated in both ball skill, speed and shooting abilities.

In addition to the original arcade mode, the home release adds an International mode (basically, the FIFA World Cup format), a league competition (up to eight star players/teams), which can be all human controlled and a skills mode where the player has to complete several training ground tasks such as hitting a target floating in the goal mouth or hitting an area from distance.