Just three weeks to go. Still, if you can't wait that long for a taste of the full game, fear not, as Eurogamer have just returned from a four-hour playtest of the latest (approx 90% complete) PS3 code. We did try the 360 code, but bafflingly, the shoot and pass controls insisted on defaulting to the trigger buttons, making any kind of dissection virtually impossible. So without further delay, let's get to it...
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."
I've already pre-ordered my copy after playing the demo on XBL. I wish they'd hurry up with the demo on PSN cause I'm planning to buy it for my PS3 and want to see what it's like on it first.
I haven't managed to pull off the new 'dive' feature yet either, although I have seen the AI use it against me a few times (but always resulted in a yellow card). I wonder if you can actually 'cheat' with it?
I personally also thought the graphics weren't that bad when compared to Fifa 08. Fifa just seems a bit more shiny.
is going to get owened with this game
This game really show what football is really about, Fifa08 have been improving over the years so around the next 2 years or so fifa is catching up to PES, so PES must need to improve it contents such as putting some trick to it or extras like music better commentary or else it a lot of trouble when FIFA will reached to the sage where the gameplay between FIFA and PES 08 is alike, PES is more likely to loose
im not sure about this review. he said fifa went for realism this year and he said pro evo was more arcady than realism. in fifa the passing is slow and awkward and completin a pass is difficult to complete even more so when the oppisition applies a little bit of pressure or when your in the final third, also the players dont feel like a individual. one example is that for man united, tevez can be swapped for carrick and you wouldnt feel any differance. only star players like ronaldinio and rooney felt a little differant coz of the individual trick (where a star player will have his unique trick and is to complecated to pull off in a match to have any effect) and they also have better dribbling. pro evo still feels like every player is unique and has a mor effective trick system and is more of a simulation of football than fifa. also the players likeness's are better than fifa shiny plastic look. also in fifa only the big players have good likness's and pro likeness's run straight throught the team from goalkeeper to striker.
pro evo will win...hands down
yeah fifa may have the licensing and stuff, but pro evo feels more fluid with better A.I and gameplay,
A.I is something they seriously need to improve in fifa, i mean...how much times have u passed the ball to your teammate only for him to stand there not making any effort at all to catch it while a player from the other team runs for it and intercepts it...EA say that each player makes around 1000 decisions per second....well it looks like they missed that one out