GameSpot writes: "One of the two playable Level 5 games at this year's Tokyo Game Show is Inazuma Eleven 2. It seems to be another soccer role-playing game that takes place at a school. The last game must have done well because it was just released this past summer and they're already working on the next. Level 5 seems to be fairly random with its games, but Inazuma Eleven 2 appears to be a fun RPG aimed at kids and those who liked the first game. We started a game from the beginning and were introduced to a fresh-faced young boy who was itching to play some soccer.
The opening anime cut scene gave us a good look at what some young boys do in their spare time--play on their Nintendo DS, play cards and not getting enough exercise. We see another boy walk into the room with a soccer ball and try to convince his friends to play with him. The others didn't seem to want to move a muscle, so he leaves the room, looking a little rejected. Since our young athlete doesn't want to join in on the more laid-back hobbies, we took him outside to check out the surroundings."
Adam Nelon writes, "Ah, Association Football—the sport of the world. Known to most simply as Football (except in countries like Australia and the United States, which both refer to it as Soccer for the sake of not confusing it with their own respective versions of Football), it is a remarkably simple game which has often been seen as the great equalizer of sports for how little is required to play it in terms of equipment and space. Yet, for as inexpensive and simple the game is compared to many of the other sports America developed, Football is often the one sport you don’t see advertised nearly as much in the US. Well, aside for ads for games like Pro Evolution Soccer and FIFA."
Inazuma Eleven 2 is GamingSurvival.com's "Game of the Week". DS genre-scourge Inazuma Eleven’s sequel has finally made it across from Japan. The second outing for the sporting RPG arrives in two editions, Blizzard and Firestorm. In a stylish little Pokémon-inspired manoeuvre, the variation between the two is trivial at best. There will be special moves and players available to each that will be unavailable to the other, and other such pernickety shenanigans. But what else had changed with this new installment’s arrival? - Chris Littlechild
Nintendo Universe writes:
Having won the Football Frontier the team now faces an even greater challenge, as an alien team from AliusAcademy arrives on Earth.
Taught to use soccer as a means of destruction, they destroy Raimon Junior High School and set out to turn the other schools across Japan into similar wrecks.
