ESPN MLS Game

The MLS has made major strides since its creation. It is no longer where you play when you can’t play anywhere else. Now they are putting out quality football, in stadiums specifically designed to host football matches. Sure it still has long way to go until it is anywhere near the level of the EPL, La Lira, Series A, and the rest of the power leagues. Nowadays, the league is very competitive and the fans have responded.

 But isn’t it fun to go backing time, to the year 2000, when the league was providing entertainment but for the wrong reasons. You can do that with ESPN MLS Gamenight. This game is made by Konami and runs off a modified version of Winning Eleven 4, only now totally focused on the MLS. So this is a quality football game, with a well developed system behind it. If you come from playing Fifa or any other football series, this is going to take a couple matches to become acquainted with the system.


And all of this is presented by ESPN which means you get award winning commentating from Bob Ley, who puts in a less than best quality performance, or you have Spanish commentating from Luis Tapia, for our Latin American friends. The real meat of the game comes from taking your favorite team through an entire 32 game season.

But after you do, it will feel quite good and you will be pulling off great crosses, through passes, re-centering headers, and of course scoring goal, after goal, after goal. This was back when the league only had 12 teams. Big franchises like the New York RedBulls, and the Houston Dynamos had yet to be created but you can relive your great memories of defunct teams like the Tampa Bay Mutiny and the Miami Fusion FC.

You will have to manage your team, maintaining your players’ fitness, dealing with injuries and making trades to lead your team to the MLS Cup. But there is also CupMode, which plays like tournament mode and even Custom League mode, where you can decide which teams make it into the league.
The game doesn’t have just MLS teams but also the national teams of countries like Italy, United States, England, France and many others. Do you want to stay in the MLS or see how the Kansas City Wizards do in a league of national teams? The choice is yours. ESPN MLS Gamenight is a quality football game, running with great game mechanics and showing league still in its infancy. The quality of football of the MLS has gone up considerably, and the quality of this game has remained timeless.