Shingo 'Seabass' Takatsuka is a living soccer legend. The mastermind behind the exceptional Pro Evolution Soccer series has been creating fmous game of footy for years now, but 2008 signals a milestone for the long-running soccer series, with PS3 and Wii versions of the game now completing a full next gen line-up.
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."
Code may be the same, but theres no deniying that playing PES with the sixaxis/DualShock is far better than 360 pad.
There is a reason why the ps3 version of pes has recieved far more preorder's than any other version ;)
I doubt your getting suxasses and rumble all in one on this, even so you'd have to go spend another 50.00 on that controller plus 65.00 on the game, is that a deal?? Hell no!!
This is the first Pro Evolution Soccer on PS3 - are you pleased with what you've achieved and how do you see the series evolving on PS3?
Seabass: Well I'm satisfied in that in the time frame we had, we were able to finish the code and release it on time, but that's only really within that time frame. When I look at the capacity of what the PS3 can do, I feel very strongly that there's loads of things that I wanted to do, but I couldn't do them in this version.
i have the 360 demo and i should say that i am not impressed at all, it looks just like the one released a year before just a bit less jaggy. i understadn that ps3 needs about double the production time to make the gaes look identical but it is a crime to downgrade the 360 version bcause u wanted to ship the ps3 one quicker. it could of looked so much better. ( to all fanboys, i wasnt making a statement about power of the system just about development cycles and KONAMI obviosuly wanted the ps3 version to not be the inferior one as it is the case for nearly all multiplatform same day releases).
it plays well enough though still which is the most important point.
Gee you wont get hits on an article like that.
I know what he means by preference, personally I cant play a Tony Hawk game on XB because I play with my thumb on ollie but my index finger constantly bent and on grind. It too hard to do on XB so it really changes the whole game for such a simple thing. I couldn't imagine playing tekken and doing all of Kings multi stage moves on any thing other than a dual shock either.