FIFA 08 Vs PES 2008
For quite some time I’ve been thinking about which soccer game I should get on PS3. FIFA 08 from the demo does not seem to add a lot over it’s predecessor, and Winning Eleven is the theme of soccer on Sony. I mean, you could get called insane for just raising that question here in Kuwait. But I’ve been FIFA player for most of the time, since 95 perhaps. This was mostly because I was PC gamer all the time, and PES on PC wasn’t that much fun. The two best FIFA versions were 98, which had lots of skill moves that are extremely easy to master (so easy to be considered a drawback though), and 2007 which brought the game back to life after years of lay down and frustration that I stopped buying it for a while.
I was having doubts today when I played FIFA 08 PC demo one last time as to whether I should consider PES, after all the great press it got. Price of PES 08 reached 40 KD in Kuwait, that’s over $140! Crazy ha! So I tried the PC demo which was so slow, and they didn’t even care to change the User Controller for PC and they are just showing a XBox 360 controller instead. What I was able to figure out is A is Shoot, D is long pass, X is short (stupid) pass, W is through pass, and E is sprint. Try placing your fingers over the keys and you’ll now what I mean. The game it self had some +ve over FIFA in ball reception, and sometimes the quick passing. But something I always hated about PES is the shooting, which at the end is the way to score goals. Shooting seems always a bet easy to anticipate, and there is no such great control over it as there is in FIFA games. I love to have long range shots that could curve anywhere, but I don’t see that a lot in PES.
At the end, I just saw the game reviews on GameSpot to know there is no reason to have a second thought. PES 08 on PS3 is rated 6.0 compared to 8.5 to FIFA 08! This is the first time ever I see FIFA on Sony rated above PES, and it seems big part of the disappointment is from the bugs and lack of game improvements. You can’t be the leader and expect to remain so by releasing the same game over and over can you? FIFA were lost for years with changes but at least now they seem to be getting some where.
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