The first PES 2010 review is in via the pages of PSM3 Magazine, which crowns FIFA 10 (very marginally) this year's winner.
"After the arcade excesses of PES 09, [PES 2010 is] a welcome return to simulation roots," says the mag, which awards PES 2010 a respectable 89% - 1% less than FIFA 2010.
"If you were disappointed by PES 09, and converted to FIFA in exasperation, this is a welcome return to form," it says.
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"Going down the list in Steve Bowden’s 100 Computer Games to Play Before You Die, I was supposed to write something about Defender this week but I decided not to. Just doesn’t feel right. Not for this week, not for right now at least.
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TGC writes: There are those that like to argue whether you are a Fifa gamer or a Pro Evolution Soccer gamer. I’m going to take it one step further and say your either a football gamer or a non football gamer. The fact of the matter is a new game comes out every year with possibly the slightest difference from the previous game and they release it onto the shelves in quantities thinking that they’ve made something new and improved. I really think they should hold a prize for anyone who can spot the difference between FIFA 09 and FIFA10 because I’m really struggling.
I use to buy every sports game I was interested in madden,MLB,nba and wwe along few others and I remember buying playing for few days than thinking why I paid full price for this. Than one year about 4 years ago I said no more and I have never bought another sports game at launch sometimes I do buy me when they $20 on craiglist of sale but that's barely
IMO sports games don't do enough to justify a fully price and that's just my opinion
If 2k can sell nfl 2k5 for $19.99 and make a profit than why are games today with less content are selling for full 60? No wonder why EA ran to nfl and bought the exclusive rights
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Sports games shuld be every 2 years and in between dlc and more updates and stuff like tournaments
If people are willing to buy them then whats the problem? i think its cod or mw123 you should be talking about, the new pes and fifa look good this year.
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Sports games tend to bore me, but I'm very fond of Tony Hawk, Skate, NBA Street V2 and some WWE games (if you count it as sport... sports entertainment... whatever).
The PES review is based on SP only.
Curiously in the Fifa review they forgot to mention all the bugs present in the final game.
pes is nothing to me after fifa 09...
fifa devs learn from their mistakes,but pes devs seem to make even more ...
and the online is pretty much crap with all the lag
Basically they found nothing really wrong with PES (bearing in mind online wasnt tested of course) , but are still stuck on the whole licensing thing , wich we knew would remain as is .
It's a non issue anyway . Every pes players we know can and will use one of the numerous mods with the proper teams and licences .
Something you can't do in fifa , unless you pay for it (wich is ludicrous and defeating the whole point of having licesing monopoly to begin with but oh well...)
i'm not so sure i agree about the controls not being 360 anyway . PEs controls were tighter and more precise already , so it's obvious Fifa benefitted more from the change , and gained a precision it as lacking .
I went for FIFA last year after being a PES faithful since PES 2 on PS2. I love the online aspect of sports games and PES 2008 was crap so I decided to switch.
I was going to switch back to PES this year because I do still prefer it's gameplay to FIFA, but I was dissapointed by the gameplay of the PES 2010 demo, although it was better than the 2009 demo. Maybe I just need to spend a bit more time readjusting to the PES controls.
Anybody got FIFA 2010? Is it noticably better than 2009? Any other PES converts here?... Just trying to get some opinions.
Football games a miss this year