After EA Sports concentrated in FIFA 15 On the Ultimate Team mode, there are no relevant football simulators left on mobile platforms where you can just spend the season in the form of your favorite team. Big competitors – Pro Evolution Soccer, Real Football – either disappeared, or offer obsolete compositions. And fans remain to pay attention to projects of a smaller caliber. For example, on Active Soccer 2.

The terrible dream of the fan pes

Of course, this game has a slightly different mission compared to the rest. This is not an attempt to make a modern simulator, arcade or realistic. Like the first part, Active Soccer 2 very similar to the old Sensible Soccer. That is, it has simple graphics, a little cartoon players, an almost absent physical model and unnatural gameplay. There are only two buttons – hit and pass. Keep the “program” longer – we get a canopy. And with double pressing the virtual joystick, the leading ball is accelerated. To select the shell, you must either push the opponent into the body, or meet it directly, or roll it. Everything is very simple, although for the first time seeing the “Nogi” there is a training mode.

The result is dynamic football. It is full of free space, it is very easy to circle opponents – you just need to promote them. Computer players are happy to support the attack, resorting to a penalty pack. Naturally, the rear remain unprotected, and the normal account for Active Soccer 2 -Rather, something like 5: 3 than the usual 2: 1. Team movements do not obey the logic of the real world. For example, central defenders, even if you do not tell them to run forward, will still come to someone else’s penalty area or leave the patch in front of their own, leaving the attackers of free paths. It turns out a cheerful nightmare of an amateur Pes, when even 3 goals of advantages mean nothing, because they are played out in a few minutes.

And if, from the point of view of the game itself, everything is very frivolous, then the list of teams and leagues is worked out with the thoroughness of the same EA Sports. All leading championships with full compositions at the beginning of the 2014 season-15 plus numerous secondary divisions, in England-up to half-amateur teams from a conference league. True, all the names and names are somewhat adjusted, the football players changed their vowels, but thanks to some manipulations in editing mode, you can again turn Cristiano into Ronaldo.

The father had three modes ..

The main modes where you can do dribbling and crosses, three. This is a “career” – the same promised

season with the management of the team and the opportunity to move from one club to another;“Tournament”, which is allowed to create its own championship, cup or even analogue of the Champions League with the group stage, as well as the battles of flight;Finally, online matches, without any internal championships, just for a place in the general rating table.

Let’s start from the end. For fights with living people, you need to create a separate account tied to the mail. At first it seems nonsense, but when you see in the list of potential opponents an indication of which platform is launched Active Soccer 2, There is an understanding of why it was impossible to just fasten Game Center. However, cross -platform competitions are a thin thing, when people with a keyboard or even a gamepad oppose sensory management. However, it is not a fact that you will get to these people. The online is constantly flying away, sometimes demonstrates space “brakes”, and rivals, seeing that you are among the top players, drop the match (they do the same when you lead 3-0 in the first half, speaking for Shusberi TownMadrid Real Madrid). There is a flip side. You can make a network request at any time if you have not pressed the Opline button in the main menu. And if you play a meeting in a “career”, be prepared for the fact that it will have to start again.

We smoothly move on to the main (because the most voluminous) regime, forgetting about the “tournament”. He is made well, but remains entertainment a couple of times. But the “career”, like the famous “master of the league” in Pes, I have to capture for a long time. But in fact there are quite a few annoying situations. First of all, these are departures. If online can somehow be understood somehow, then there is no justification for the fact that out of fifty matches you will have to outplay about five. The uniformity of football itself is not pleased – opponents are not much different in style, almost no one knows how to attack the flanks, the team’s strengths are also relative. You can easily defeat a stronger enemy and suddenly blow the weaker simply because the defenders will decide to portray themselves Maradona.

Well, he finishes the idea of ​​the progress of football players. At the end of the season, players who held the most meetings receive an increase in the rating, and those who were sitting on a bench lose it. Everything is quite reasonable, only the system does not work, because the number of matches played is considered wrong, and the scored goals and transfers do not affect anything. As a result, it may happen that a couple of shock striker, which has been prolonging more than fifty goals over a year, will lose the rating next season, despite your team to take a title with a margin of fifteen points. In addition, the whole bench of spare ones will go, even if you have rotted the wards. Add to this all the interface from the second half of the nineties, an uninteresting transference system, and, quite possibly, the first season will be the last.

A good at the heart of the idea of ​​simple, fast, defective football in Active Soccer 2 Bejimed by technical problems. Perhaps in the future they will be decided, but so far it is worth releasing this game from the bench with great caution.

Pros: time -tested gameplay;many teams and leagues;the opportunity to do your tournaments.
Cons: simple network mode;There is no good community for online battles;colossal technical problems affecting the result and progress;monotony in career mode.