Marcel Desailly Pro Soccer

Marcel Desailly Pro Soccer
North American N-Gage box art
DevelopersGameloft S.A.
G Artist (N-Gage)
Anco Software (PC, PS1 & PS2)
PublishersGameloft
Ubisoft (PS1 & PS2)
PlatformsMobile phone, N-Gage, Palm OS, PlayStation, PlayStation 2, Windows
ReleaseMobile
  • WW: July 22, 2003
N-Gage
  • NA: April 28, 2004
  • EU: May 10, 2004
Playstation
  • EU: June 20, 2002
Windows
GenreSports
ModesSingle player, Multiplayer

Marcel Desailly Pro Soccer is a soccer video game developed and published by Gameloft for mobile phones, Nokia N-Gage, Windows,[1] PlayStation and PlayStation 2 (as Marcel Desailly Pro Football).[2][3] The title is based on French football player Marcel Desailly. The console version was renamed WM Nationalspieler in Germany and Sven-Göran Eriksson's World Challenge in the UK.

Reception

The N-Gage version received "generally unfavorable reviews" according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.[9] German magazine PC Games gave the PC version a 21 out of 100 criticizing the lack of a license for the teams, a catastrophic ball physic, the controls and the lack of depth in the gameplay.[10]

References

  1. ^ "Marcel Desailly Pro Football sur PC". Jeuxvideo.com (in French). Retrieved 2025-10-24.
  2. ^ "MARCEL DESAILLY PRO FOOTBALL - (PAL)". psxdatacenter.com. Retrieved 2025-04-15.
  3. ^ "Marcel Desailly Pro Football boxarts for Sony Playstation 2". The Video Games Museum. Retrieved 2025-04-15.
  4. ^ "Mercel Desailly Pro Soccer (N-Gage)". GamesMaster. April 2004.
  5. ^ Brown, Damon (2004). "Marcel Desailly Pro Soccer Review (Mobile)". GameSpot. Archived from the original on March 26, 2019. Retrieved February 3, 2017.
  6. ^ Buchanan, Levi (April 26, 2004). "Marcel Desailly Pro Soccer (Cell)". IGN. Archived from the original on February 3, 2017. Retrieved February 3, 2017.
  7. ^ "Marcel Desailly Pro Soccer for Mobile". GameRankings. Archived from the original on February 3, 2017. Retrieved February 3, 2017.
  8. ^ "Marcel Desailly Pro Soccer for N-Gage". GameRankings. Retrieved February 3, 2017.
  9. ^ a b "Marcel Desailly Pro Soccer (ngage: 2004): Reviews". Metacritic. Archived from the original on September 13, 2008. Retrieved February 3, 2017.
  10. ^ "WM Nationalspieler - Testberichte vom Amiga Joker, ASM, Power Play, PC Joker, Play Time, Happy Computer". www.kultboy.com. Retrieved 2025-10-24.