GrE writes, "The pages of gaming history are full of great, unbridled battles for market dominance. Children of the 90's will remember the epic feud between Sony and Nintendo, and the first-person shooter's first steps being fought out between Quake and Doom, while modern-day gaming has brought us the multimillion dollar battle of the band games between Rock Band vs. Guitar Hero. Arguably, however, one of gaming's most long-running rivalries is one that sometimes gets overlooked, probably because its evolution has been so subtle through its many, seemingly greedy yearly updates. I am of course talking about FIFA vs. Pro Evolution Soccer..."
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."
This game looks good, but just not as good a FIFA 10.
Solid review. Interesting to see the UK version of games competing with each other to be "THE" football game.
This is a fairly interesting review - I always thought that PES had the 'hardcore' edge, but maybe not?
To some Americans, a fight between PES and FIFA is kind of like watching 2 teenage girls fight over something stupid.
I'm glad to see the PES series getting stronger, it's about time. They used to be brilliant back in the original Xbox days.