Right now, soccer fans across the globe are wondering how their nation will fare at the upcoming World Cup in Brazil. Usually some company finds a psychic animal to ¡°predict¡± the results: Paul the Octopus for the 2010 World Cup, an Indian elephant for Euro 2012, and this time a panda.
Equally curious about the future, but lacking a clairvoyant creature, we popped in the PlayStation 3 version of the recently released ¡°World Soccer Winning Eleven 2014: Aoki Samurai no Chosen¡± (¡°Blue Samurai Challenge¡°) to see what might happen next week with the Japan national team in particular. The ¡°Winning Eleven¡± series is known overseas as ¡°Pro Evolution Soccer,¡± though this particular version is exclusive to Japan.
While ¡°Winning Eleven¡± doesn¡¯t feature the actual World Cup, due to licensing restrictions, it does have real national team players. That made it possible to run a simulation pitting the computerized Blue Samurai against virtual versions of Colombia, Cote d¡¯Ivoire and Greece, the teams Japan will face in Group C in Brazil.
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