Mar 05 2008
Pro Evolution 2008 comes out on the PS3 in a week.
Caveat: This post contains zero screenshots of the game itself, and only grainy video footage accompanied by a Greek reggae song about smoking weed.
Whether or not you like soccer (football, futebol, futbol, fu-ess-set-bol), if you like sports games and sports you will love Pro Evolution. In fact, if you don’t rate the world’s most popular game at all, even better, cause then you won’t get caught up in the whining over “official club names and kits” that all the FIFA fanboy nitwits get cramps over. Listen… it’s hard to make a shitty soccer game, just as it’s hard to make a shitty tennis game, or a golf game. The sports themselves are just elegant and simple, and perfect for video gaming. Wearing golf pants, buying tennis racquets and chasing after home runs, the things you do in real life, not so much.
So it’s refreshing when a sports video game franchise gets it so right, as the Tiger Woods series does for golf. Well, imagine getting it right, getting the physics and the gameplay and the computer’s intelligence, for 22 players on a field and a ball. That’s what sets Pro Evolution apart from the rest.
Plus, the development team is spearheaded by a guy known as ‘Seabass’. That’s major cred points there, I would think.
Seabass on a throne.
Not to mention the popular song in Eastern Europe… a reggae (!) song by the Greek band Locomondo, with the catchy Greek title, “Pinw Mpafous, Kai Paizw Pro” literally meaning “Smoking Gear, Playing Pro”. Pro Evolution geeks around the world have been putting their wildest goals to this song and uploading it on YouTube, natch:
(this one is all national teams, I think)
So there you go… physics, teamwork, seabass, reggae dope smoking songs… this game has it all.
Except that apparently there’s some lag and some missing features. Hey, I’m already saving pennies for Pro Evolution 2009.
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Seems there were an excessive amount of goals ranging from 30-50 yds, goals from corners and defense that would embarrass a Jr. Varsity team.
What can I say, these guys are pretty good… or they’re staging it with the AI. You know, one guy playing 2-player, and leaving one team out to dry.
Rest assured, between me and the 4 or 5 guys I’ve played the most against, we’ve played at least 3,000 games between us, and nobody has ever scored in open play from the 40. I’ve only scored from the 40 on a free kick twice; once with Roberto Carlos against Argentina, the other with that Fascist Milajovic (or whatever his name is) on Inter against Roma. Bob scored one once with Beckham. That’s the only three I can think of.
Actually, I think once I might have scored from that far out in open play. With Tunisia, of all teams. Ha ha, that was fantastic.
Pro Evo over FIFA is as simple as substance over style. It’s as simple as that.