Descpription:
Published in 1996 (Japanese title: Tokuten Ou - Honoo
no Libero, "Goal-Scoring King: The Flaming Sweeper"; despite the
international title, it is still considered the fourth game in the series),
it features 80 national teams divided into 8 regions.
The players scoring the goals are still named, but individual scores are no
longer kept. The regional tournaments have been eliminated and replaced with
alternate mode the SNK Football Championship, which is the game's namesake,
an elimination tournament in which your team can select any one opponent
from any region to play (similar to fighting games in which you face
another character after beating a previous one until you reach the boss).
The last region you play is the deciding match. If you're good and can make a
lot of goals on your opponents, you can play a hidden boss team called the
SNK Superstars, which features characters from SNK's fighting games as
players (you can tell them when their names are called, as during fouls).
It's in the basic game play where The Ultimate 11 has its most deciding improvement.
Teams now have a charge bar (similar to the one in fighting games), which is
charged depending on how long you can keep the ball under your team's control.
When the bar is fully charged and flashing, if you're near the goal, you can
take a shot that is virtually unblockable, depending on the opposing team.
Teams are "ranked" from 1 to 80 mirroring their real-life counterparts.
