Yeah, I started destroying my brain cells with alcohol around about that time period too mate. Late 90's, what a time to be alive! But you're not wrong, PES was the successor to the ISS series. EA realised that their well presented, premium licensed FIFA series was actually crap to play. Casual sport fans bought the games because they had polygonal depictions of their favourite teams and kits in them. But the real gamers played the mechanically far superior ISS and PES games.Yeah, and something weird happened as Pro Evo sort of took the baton from ISS (or it was the same maker or something) and then at some point Pro Evo had a bad version and FIFA must have got good around the same time and myself and a large proportion of people transitioned to FIFA. That period is a bit hazy to be honest
Yes, that all tallies up with how I remember it. And yes, the late 90s was a great time to be alive. The last of the great decades (60s-90s). And thanks Josh, I enjoyed the first Tomb Raider, in Venice. Thanks for reminding me!Yeah, I started destroying my brain cells with alcohol around about that time period too mate. Late 90's, what a time to be alive! But you're not wrong, PES was the successor to the ISS series. EA realised that their well presented, premium licensed FIFA series was actually crap to play. Casual sport fans bought the games because they had polygonal depictions of their favourite teams and kits in them. But the real gamers played the mechanically far superior ISS and PES games.
Sega Sports were also releasing more playable sport games around this time and a lot of the EA Sports stuff was just garbage relying on being well presented titles with pop music playing in the menu screens and celebrity endorsements on the cover. Who remembers the promos promising "realistic" wire frame originated movements with Dennis Bergkamp and David Beckham modelling, John Motson recording awkward commentary dialogue and the "Virtual Stadium Technology"?
Of course, EA still do this nonsense, but the games they make are now actually decent. ISS had impressive through ball, volleying and crossing mechanics that the FIFA series seemed to basically just copy when they realised that in their games you were just running around controlling a triangular rag doll mashing buttons randomly. I suppose Konami just couldn't keep up with all the flash licenses and celebrity endorsements that EA had in their arsenal (no pun intended) once their homework had been copied.
The Game Pass is what sold it to me actually. I understand Playstation has an equivalent(?) but seemed nowhere near as good as Game Pass.
I started playing this but found the tutorials really difficult then the game itself to be incredibly dull once you're up in the air. Maybe it's just not for me!Seeing as the weather is rubbish here, I'm going to start up my virtual aircraft and fly around the the tropical Hawian islands in Microsoft Flight Simulator tonight....another Gamepass belter. Amazing for the technical achievement just as much as the graphics and shear scope (the whole planet) in rich detail.