Maxconsole writes:
"Not even a month has passed since PES 2008 was released in the UK and already retailers have slashed the price of the title by as much as 50%. GameStation is offering the title on both the Xbox 360 and PS3 platforms at a price of just £24.99, while GAME is offering it for £20 less than the RRP at £49.99. With no sign of a patch from Konami and the title dropping furiously out of UK sales charts, even these last ditch price cutting attempts will not justify a purchase of this sub standard bug ridden title. Once again, congratulations to Konami for screwing over its loyal fanbase who were early adopters."
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."
With the brilliant work Konami did with PES08 (specially the PS3 version) they should be begging people to take it for free >.<
Its even more brutal when a lot of gaming sites recommend getting Fifa 08 (YES FIFA!) over PES08...has Konami and the PES franchise fallen so low?
more at 6
:P
When your game is this crappy...
For kane and lynch and they would only give me £5 store credit for it so i kept it.They said that they had that many returns !!
they will redeem themselves with MGS4
LOL AM I RITE?
i mean, it's not like Kojima is going to pull an MGS2 and try and "surprise" the fanbase with some existential move to try and force the industry to mature through experimentation using his own game's hype.
i own my first fifa game (fifa o8)and i love it too bits but i was a big fan of pes series on ps2 dont know what happened but fifa is best for everything, licensing and gameplay but the online mode needs to be like the one on pes6