PALGN Writes: "When Pro Evolution Soccer was at its peak it was hailed as the king of football games, offering great depth of gameplay and realistic ball physics. Recent updates of the franchise however have been accused of getting stale, seeing only limited tweaking and perhaps not being worthy of forking out the cash for. This all changed with the late release of the Wii version of PES 2008. With PES 2009 for the Wii just around the corner, we thought this would be a good opportunity to take a look at the 2008 version released a few months ago.
Pro Evolution Soccer (PES) on the Wii had been hotly anticipated by gamers for a number of reasons. Firstly because of the lack of a decent football game on the Wii (FIFA 08 with an outrageously over-sized Ronaldinho anyone?) and secondly because of the speculation of what motion-sensitive control might deliver. Fortunately, Konami ruled out strapping a Wii Remote to your ankle relatively early in the piece (although it was apparently considered). Instead, they set about developing a (r)evolutionary soccer sim from the ground-up that would shake-up the series and deliver a gaming experience with an unprecedented amount of control."
This Is My Joystick NEW Celebrity Games Columnist OJ Borg Laments The Death Of The PS2.
The power of the PS2 was the social aspect; that dragged Gamers in. Nowadays we don’t need to see, smell or entertain our friends as we have Xbox Live and the shabby PS3 online thing, but back then, we used to have to be in the same room to play these games. This wasn’t a new thing, but the games just made it all-encompassing.
Games like Tekken Tag Tournament were great for a night of lazy boozing and gaming. Track and Field with a Multi-Tap was where we would give different names to the competition, depending on who was there (“AAA” if it was the poorer player’s, right up to an Olympics once every four weeks). We even had a little drugs scandal, when we decided to ban the use of socks on fingers to help mash the buttons.
The PS2 was a once in a lifetime machine, but honestly I hadn't seen a new one available here in the states in almost 5 years. The news that they have ceased production worldwide is basically symbolic.
The epic fight between the two soccer giants Pro Evolution Soccer and FIFA has been going on for over 10 years now. Cynamite takes a look at the scores from both games and shows, at which point PES overtook the FIFA series.
PS1/PS2 - PES by far
360/PS3 - FIFA by far
I can't see that changing until the next generation of consoles.
2000 - 2005 -> PES dominated since the PS1 days but then it came PES 2006 it was a major letdown
2006 - NOW -> Fifa started to show its quality on this current gen and it evolved year after year while PES was still way behind.
A shame that games like "This is football" just vanished during the PS2 days
pes2011 is much different from any next gen pes, this is really a huge improvement
Its funny to read or talk to the FIFA fanboy they cant accept the true and hate PES.
If you go to the FIFA forums they talk Bs. About pes and they hate it.
In the Pes forums they respect Fifa and many will be getting the two and we aré confidente that PES11 is better and the kind is back
Boomtown writes: "No rivalry in the world of gaming is fiercer than the one between competing football franchises. It almost mirrors the strength of feeling people have for their club. Crossing the divide to support another franchise is a relatively rare occurrence. There are two major derby matches in the football gaming calendar and they feature a bitter enmity which has built up over the last few years. The first is Pro Evolution versus FIFA and the second is Championship Manager versus Football Manager."