The inevitable annual debate of 'who beats who?' in the football simulator stakes will heat up once more when the 2011 instalments of both FIFA and Pro Evolution series arrive on 1st October and November 2010, respectively. We want to know where your allegiance will lie when both footie simulator giants hit the market in?
Will it be a straight forward home win for EA's fully licensed FIFA series or will Konami's Pro Evolution Soccer offering take it's all conquering rival into extra-time and beyond this time year?
Give Coregamer your vote!
Online support for a number of 2010 EA Sports titles is set to end next month.
NBA Jam ? w00t 0_o Thankfully I don't buy any sports games. I hope they are talking about NBA Jam disc based version not the On fire downloadable one
I can understand the need to shut down servers. But doing it for games that only came out last year is a bit ridiculous.
I normally try and defend EA on here because I don't think they are as bad as many people make them out to be but but this would annoy me if I owned any of these games.
They're probably following 2k's lead. 2k has already shut down nba 2k12 servers. Which means the average life expectancy u can get from playing nba 2k13 (if u were to buy it now) would be about 10 months. Don't expect to play online longer than that. That means there product is a NO buy for me. If they offered LAN option on the pc side u could always use Tunngle to play online, but they don't so there's no way to play online.
wow they shut down 2K12 servers already???
at least EA gives people 2-3 years to play online, wow. nobody can complain about EA now
and to be fair to EA they shut servers down based on what percentage of people still play online. I remember them saying that they shut servers down which make up less than 1% of traffic across all EA servers, at least that's what they say.
"nobody can complain about EA now"
- torchic
Yes we can. 2k sports are also on my "no buy" list.
"The decision to retire older EA titles is never easy." That's also what they said when they shut down the servers for BF2: MC.
I think maybe with the release of pay for your own server on BF3 this is what EA might continue to use for all games giving an option for people who want to play it online.
I'm so sick of EA and all the BS, i'm sick of a lot of publishers anymore.
Zero1Gaming writer Paul Izod casts his eye over the trials and tribulations of the Sports Sim and where it's future lies.
Mr. Kennedy of TheKoalition.com writes:
If you have been a frequent visitor to TheKoalition.com then you might have seen our initial piece for our “Focus On FIFA” series. Here is part 2.
Manager Mode
The staple of FIFA’s offline play. A considerably important feature for the FIFA video game franchise. Over the years it has had it’s ups and downs…plenty of downs. Here are a few:
i like pes more
FIfa is clearly the superior game. PES doesnt even hold a candle to it.
The question is fifa 11 vs pes 11 ... not how much each sucked or not in the past .
Right now when only looking at both games , i prefer pes 11 for its revamped gameplay , its modes and its realisation .
PES just looks and plays childish, the interface is not as modern as Fifa's and Fifa's online can never be beaten Im afraid. Not to mention the tournaments around the world that can earn you real cash.
PES should just stop.
only time PES>FIFA is pc but since they will bring the engine EA uses for 360/ps3 versions to pc i think that will change it back to FIFA>PES.