SI: "In the last two weeks we’ve analysed in depth both FIFA 11 and PES 2011 for review. Each article explored the intricacies of this year’s leading football titles and it’s now time to directly compare the two games. Usually, we stay away from a fragmented, organised approach, but for ease, the comparison piece will be structured accordingly. For those after a short answer, FIFA 11 is the leader by a long shot. PES 2011 is a big improvement over last year’s edition, but it still falls short in every department."
Only Pro Evolutions: ''The PES Team have terminated the online servers for Pro Evolution Soccer 2011.''
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.
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:
FIFA has proven itself over the past couple years, and the latest iteration (FIFA 11) shows its continuing domination in the football / soccer sim genre.
I bought FIFA11 this year and played it offline and online a lot. I enjoyed it and it was fun. I had some good online matches as well and played about 3-4 seasons in the career mode.
The things I did not like about FIFA were:
- The players all played and felt the same.
- It was far too easy for a defender to take the ball off of you and almost impossible to thread a through ball past a defender.
- Load times were long and did annoy me, especially in career mode just going through the days waiting for a game. Sometimes you would get emails that would pause the calendar, you had to then press to close the inbox which would cause a huge load delay and then continue waiting as the days passed.. terrible.
I picked up PES11 a few days ago and I have to say it's so much more fun. The way the game feels isn't 100% to the glory days of PS2 but it is the first PES that is toe to toe with FIFA. I'm having a lot more fun passing and shooting especially in PES. Another thing that is wonderful is there are practically no load times except for when you're first starting a match, and even that is quite minimal.
I've hated every PES on the PS3 with the possible exception of 2010, but I really didn't since I didn't play it very much. I finally got FIFA this year and I have to say while it was a good game, it was seriously flawed and was far from the perfect soccer game that reviews and fans make it seem to be.
According to Reviews and Sales, FIFA has retained it's crown once again. PES did get better though, but I'm sticking with FIFA.