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3.4 / 5

19 votes

Platform
Nintendo 64
Genres
Sports
Player Perspective
Top-down
Developers
Konami
Publishers
Konami · Gradiente
Release date
August 3, 2000
Languages
🇬🇧 🇺🇸 English · 🇪🇸 🇲🇽 Spanish

Summary

International Superstar Soccer 2000, often shortened to ISS 2000, feels like the undisputed king of football on the N64. The new Career Mode lets you nurture youngsters into star players, while smoother animations make each pass and tackle feel more natural. A rare high‑resolution mode, unlocked via an expansion pack, pushes the visuals further but can chew up frame‑rate, a quirk that seasoned fans still forgive for the sharper look. The game boasts a staggering 100 national squads, covering every UEFA member of the era and offering a full‑blown European Championship mode with qualifiers, plus a diverse roster of teams from the Americas, Africa, Asia and Oceania. In the North American release you’ll even spot a handful of real‑named players—though no roster is completely authentic—while the Japanese version swaps the nations for J‑League clubs and adds unique crowd chants that the western editions stripped away. Critics were kind: Famitsu gave it 34/40, Nintendo Power scored it 7/10, and Time Extension later crowned it one of the best N64 titles of all time.

Edited by Maya Carter

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Alternative Titles

  • ISS 2000 Short