World Tour Soccer 2003 lets you play with or against teams from 15 different national leagues and more than 13,500 FIFPro players from 700 international and league teams. Compete in ten other stadiums worldwide, each with weather and daytime possibilities.
Among the features is the ability to create your unique team, play entire seasons, player careers, tournaments, and international and challenge modes. Edit the teams and players as you see fit. Keep track of your stats and visit your trophy cabinet to view your achievements and unlocked cheats.
The player’s full range of competitions is an entire season in the Argentinean, Belgian, Brazilian, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mexican, North American, Portuguese, Scottish, or Spanish leagues.
The Dutch season, for example, includes eighteen teams in the first division, eighteen teams in the second division, the Dutch Cup with thirty-two teams, the Inter Euro Cup with twenty-four teams, the Euro Club Cup with sixty-four teams, The Euro Super League with thirty-two teams, the Euro Super Cup, and the World Club Cup. Many of these tournaments, of course, apply to other countries as well.
Any international or club teams can be customized, and personalized teams can compete in these events.
- The World Cup, Euro Cup, South Americas Cup, America’s Cup, Africa Cup, and Asia Oceania Cup are among the competitions. The player chooses a nation and competes against other national teams.
- The Custom tournament option allows the player to build their own league or cup tournament, or they can participate in the Time Warp Cup or Time Warp Leagues as one of their favorite teams from the past. The Timewarp teams available are from the 1950s in Madrid; the 1960s in Glasgow, Lisbon, Manchester, and Milano; the 1970s in Amsterdam, Bayern, Brussels, Glasgow Rangers, Highbury, Liverpool, New York, and St Etienne; the 1980s in Milan, Nottingham Forest, and Turin; and the 1990s in Barcelona, Marseilles, Nagoya, Sao Paulo, and 1994 in Korea.
- The Career mode begins with teams such as Hedley Walter, Horsenden, and London Nautical in the English Schools League. The player can change the team’s uniform, manager’s name, player appearance, and other details to lead the team to victory. Naturally, these matches begin on school playing fields, a departure from the conventional football arenas.
- Finally, the Exhibition match option allows the player to play in any significant stadium (school pitches are unavailable) against any foreign teams or club teams from the leagues listed above. This game choice also contains a group of ‘Other Teams’ that comprises sixty or so units ranging from Al Ahly and Athens to Zagreb and Zurich.
All matches can be played in one of four difficulty settings, with match lengths ranging from four to twenty minutes; other configuration choices are available. At each of the game’s difficulty settings, the trophy room allows the player to acquire all trophies, and twenty-seven unoccupied slots are available for an English Premier League team.
