Joe Booth, FIFA 08 Lead Producer talks about the upcoming game:
"The evolution of our new Be A Pro feature comes from two things. First, we felt that the experience of playing FIFA 08 – both the view point and playing as the whole team – hasn't really changed since we went to 3D. At the same time there is this desire from our gamers to go to an 11 vs 11 online experience. These two things inspired us to begin experimenting with a new way to play FIFA 08.
In FIFA 08 on PS3 and Xbox 360 we have two things that will take us in this direction. The first is our new Be A Pro: Offline Training mode. This is a way of playing the game where you just focus on one player. You play the game as a single fixed player for the entire match.
You choose your team and the player you want to play as. You'll go back to the arena and get a chance to practice as that player as the game is loading. The first thing you'll see is this very unique camera that we've built for this feature call called a Pro Cam. This camera is always framing the action between you, the ball and the goal. The further you are away from the goal the camera will pull back and the view will be further out to enable you to be more tactical. If you are sprinting in on goal the camera will zoom in to a tighter view that makes it feel more like you are sprinting in on goal and you are living the moment. It is really emotionally engaging, more so than we ever dreamed."
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
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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."