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The cliche of EA focusing on licences while Konami aped real football was born.Īided by its magnificent Master League career mode – creating unlikely icons of fictional nobodies Valery, Ximenes and Castello – the early 00s remain Pro Evo’s golden era. While that game scored 9/10, Fifa 2002 picked up 8/10, bolstered by 400 teams with correct strips and badges. “The best football game on any console – ever,” insisted Eurogamer in 2001 as Pro Evolution Soccer landed on PlayStation 2. With the engine in place, each entry became a matter of refinement.” The Gazza in Konami’s English team had his peroxide hair. “Even those earliest Tokyo-developed titles focused on control, with the blocky characters perhaps lacking the finesse of the EA game but offering a more flowing experience.
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“The series was always about gameplay,” says Steve Merrett, Konami’s PR mastermind from 2001 to 2018. Konami’s titles rewarded patience, and the genuine pace – such as that demonstrated by France forward Hanry – felt scintillating. The key was the intricacy with which they did so. During this time, PES became legendary for its made-up names: Roberto Larcos, Naldorinho, Batustita, but it didn’t matter that England lined up with Bekham and Skoles supplying Owenn and Sheerer. Three subsequent PS1 games widened the quality gap. “So smooth you forget this is a video game and actually feel like you’re participating in a real match,” cooed Absolute PlayStation.
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Plus its side-on visual presentation looked beautiful. The game included nine in-match strategy options such as zone press and overlap, emphasising the idea of simulation over arcade-style action. Where its rival encouraged fast, thrilling goal-fests, ISS slowed things down, rewarding patient approach play and crisp passing, facilitated by a groundbreaking approach to tactical variety. Developed by Konami Tokyo with a new 3D graphics engine, it sought to challenge Fifa by offering an organic, improvisational experience rather than something tightly structured around specific moves and tactics. The game-changer was 1997’s International Superstar Soccer Pro – follow-up to the well-received early PlayStation kickabout, Goal Storm, and namesake of 1994 SNES title International Superstar Soccer. For four years it remained the darling of critics and fans alike. Future Sensible Soccer releases avoided console, and rivals such as Gremlin Interactive’s Actua Soccer series couldn’t match Fifa for technology or gameplay. Fifa became the standard for graphics, audio and gameplay.” Indeed it did. Lead designer Bruce McMillan felt more confident: “I wasn’t shocked.
The reception was way beyond our expectations.” I couldn’t help but drop myself in there as an England forward. “We had to create fictitious names for thousands of players. “While we had an agreement with Fifa to use their name and logo, there wasn’t a way we could utilise real names,” he says. “The word ‘classic’ is used too much,” wrote Mean Machines Sega magazine, awarding it 94%, “but anyone who plays Fifa Soccer must concede that this IS football.”įifa producer Matt Webster was surprised by the success, and concedes that although EA had an official licence, the original game wasn’t quite as accurate as later iterations. Critics and football fans loved its isometric viewpoint, realistic animations, end-to-end action and spectacular bicycle kicks. But Fifa was a flashy newcomer, designed for the 16-bit console era, and within a month it had sold 500,000 copies. Contemporary hits Kick Off 2 and Sensible Soccer both adopted an overhead view and lacked any kind of big-league sponsorship. When Fifa International Soccer launched on Mega Drive in December 1993, its competitors were already beginning to look old-fashioned. It was the latest shot in a turf war going back 25 years. The reason? Barca are an official PES 2020 partner club – and publisher Konami reportedly wasn’t keen for him to promote its main rival. Yet his first-round match against Eibar’s Edu Expósito never took place. E arlier this year, Barcelona’s Sergi Roberto was due to compete in a charity Fifa 20 tournament, which ultimately raised almost £130,000 towards the fight against coronavirus.
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