Ultimate Beach Soccer

As per the standardised rules of beach football matches take place on a smaller field of play, with five players per side and unlimited substitutions allowed.[5] Players have the choice of four stadia, located in Bangkok, Rio de Janeiro, Marseille or Venice Beach, with dusk and night time settings at each.[6] 32 teams are included for selection, with real life players such as Eric Cantona, Julio Salinas and Daniele Massaro playable.[7] Up to four players are supported on the Xbox and PS2 versions, with two players on the Game Boy Advance (via link cable) and PC.[8][9]

The game was PAM Development's second football title, following on from 2000's Ronaldo V-Football. Development was undertaken with the cooperation of the Beach Soccer Worldwide organisation and Spanish beach footballers Ramiro Amarelle and Robert Valero Mato performed motion capture for the title.[5] The working title for the North American release was X-Treme Beach Soccer.[10]

Writing in The Guardian Steve Boxer awarded the title 3/5, describing it as "laughably simple and lacking in subtlety when compared with full-blown football games such as Pro Evolution Soccer" but with potential appeal to those "seek[ing] instant entertainment in bite-size chunks".[11] Russell Garbutt of Xbox Nation magazine was less positive, criticising the game animations as "stiff, jerky, and simply not compelling" and the controls as "clumsy and barely responsive", giving a score of 3/10.[12]