LiberoGrande

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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.

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.

The player roster in the arcade version consists of: <templatestyles src="Template:Football squad player/styles.css" /> Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
— Template:Fba/core Raimundo
— Template:Fba/core Rudolf de Buys
— Template:Fba/core Antonio Del Pacino
— Template:Fba/core Zenon Zadkine
— Template:Fba/core Naoki Hidaka
— Template:Fba/core Philippe Empson
— Template:Fba/core Alfred Shaffer
— Template:Fba/core Gaston Balmaceda
— Template:Fba/core Cornelio Valencia
— Template:Fba/core Jordan Krüger
— Template:Fba/core Raffaello Balbo
— Template:Fba/core Dirk Berlarge
— Template:Fba/core Oswald Bismarck
— Template:Fba/core Patrizio Mazzini
— Template:Fba/core Richard Castro
— Template:Fba/core Ajax Möbius
No. Pos. Nation Player
— Template:Fba/core Godwin Hasdeu
— Template:Fba/core Renato Gallegos
— Template:Fba/core Deron Slojacek
— Template:Fba/core Robin Garrick
— Template:Fba/core Dorman Smixolovic
— Template:Fba/core Gregorio Zonaras (Hidden player)
— Template:Fba/core Arnold Lang (Hidden player)
— Template:Fba/core Roland (Hidden player)
— Template:Fba/core Minoru Kai (Hidden player)
— Template:Fba/core Edgard Cailaux (Hidden player)
— Template:Fba/core Powel Gardner (Hidden player)
— Template:Fba/core Gerald Wells (Hidden player)
— Template:Fba/core Ruprech Goes (Hidden player)
— Template:Fba/core David Magellan (Hidden player)
— Template:Fba/core Maurice Poulenc (Hidden player)

There is a total of 48 national teams, but only 32 of them to choose from, depending on which version:

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a Only playable in the Arcade version
b Only playable in the Japanese version
c Only playable in the PAL version

A sequel, LiberoGrande 2 (known as LiberoGrande International in Europe) was released for PlayStation in Europe and Japan only, but with less success than the first title.

A playable demo of the game was included in Ridge Racer Turbo (Ridge Racer Hi-Spec in Europe), which was sold with Ridge Racer Type 4. The demo includes three players (Zenon Zadkine, Alfred Shaffer and Jordan Krüger) and three teams (England, France and Italy), which a person could use to play a ten-minute game.

Reception

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In Japan, Game Machine listed LiberoGrande on their February 15, 1998 issue as being the seventh most-successful arcade game of the month.[1]

References

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External links

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