PES: The Poor Man’s Soccer Game (literally)
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I’ll confess that I haven’t gotten this year’s edition, so I’m only going on what fellow soccer/football video game dorks have told me. To paraphrase, this is what it sounds like to me:
It’s official; FIFA finally buried PES. EA gave Konami a Texas Funeral and didn’t even leave flowers. It’s a shame, and at the same time, it was inevitable. Realistically, Konami wasn’t going to be able to keep pace, and the PES crew lost its lead in the generation hop when people jumped ship on them because it wasn’t all purdy and HD. EA can afford to have people working on developments for the next generation, and Konami has to focus on the here and now.
There’s no doubt who the better soccer-gaming minds were. Seabass and his crew torched the EA crew for about three years, but a little competition is always going to improve the product. We can thank Seabass for the vast improvements in FIFA just as much as we can thank EA. Konami lit a fire underneath the FIFA branch, but they forgot to clean up all of the wood kindling and close the fire off with a rock circle.
Well, the graphics are still pretty good anyway.
http://www.totalvideogames.com/PES-2010/review-14663.html
IGN also has a solid breakdown of everything too.
Basically, the wallet that runs only slightly deeper than any of ours is not enough to compete with the monopoly that is EA. Even before FIFA was a good game, they had a religious following. Now that FIFA is actually worthwhile, the game is over.
Hope I’m wrong.
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