Pro Evolution 2010 vs FIFA 10
Nike or Adidas? Pacino or De Niro? Coke or Pepsi? Beatles or Stones? The millions of preferences we all have are, in many ways, what define us. At this time of the year the biggest decision for Football/Gaming fans is what do you buy Ea Sports Fifa 10 or Pro Evolution Soccer 2010 ?
Whether or not you’re a Fifa or Evo ‘person’ is a classic example of this. As a footballing gamer , it’s likely that you and your immediate peer group are devoted to either one chapel at the other, sneering at followers of the other, inferior religion.
Traditionally (and my loyalties are sure to be revealed here), the two camps were easily divided. Fifa fans were children or casual gamers, sucked in by the official license and shiny advertising campaign. Players who wanted simple, accessible fun but had no time for tactics, one-twos or slide-rule through passes.
Evo fans on the other hand, were football gaming aesthetes. They played for the beauty of the game, not the competition. They’d boast of memory card’s chock-full of 30-yard top-corner volleys, not 72-match unbeaten runs. Who cared if Craig Bellamy was inexplicably named ‘BELASIE’? or going back to the early years and playing LEE BLUNT !!!!
The tendency of the two game franchises to be influenced by (steal) each other’s ideas after each release however has meant that over time, the once polar opposites have been drawn further and further together - leading in recent years for even hardened Evo devotees to cross the battle lines in the name of calloused thumbs. Both have licenses and online play, both are endorsed by star names. By all accounts, in recent years, Fifa has simply been the better game.
Having had a few days to deliberate, cogitate, and digest my immediate thoughts on the new Pro Evolution Soccer are as follows:
1. The menu screens are worse than ever.
2. The phrase ‘Game Plan’ has no right to be used to label the Team Management screen, and was clearly written by someone who has no interest in football.
3. The data is out of date: it’s pleasantly nostalgic to play as Xabi Alonso for Liverpool but it also makes me feel sad.
4. The game feels ’smoother’ than 2009 (which was one of the worst Evos) - through passes, especially chipped, work much better.
5. There was no learning curve - with previous versions it’s taken me hours to score a goal as I get used to the new game engine, let alone beat Barcelona on the hardest difficulty setting. This suggests to me that the new version will be more ‘fun’ (like the heady days of Evo 4 and 5) than ’sim’ - we may see 30 yard screamers again.
As for Fifa?
1. It crashed, and my Xbox crashed, before I even got to the match setup screen. This is a sign. The menus were nice though, and I noticed an option to change the controls to the same as Evo’s - very sneaky.
2. I’ve decided that since I’ve barely played previous versions I’d rather know what you all think than further anger my temperamental Xbox.
With Fifa out with all the glitz of Having Manchester United’s Wayne Rooney, Arsenal’s Theo Walcott and Chelsea’s Frank Lampard and Pro Evo due very soon going for Liverpool’s Fernando Torres & Lional Messi of Barcelona & Argentina, the decision will soon be upon you - could this be the year you finally switch allegiances? Unless anyone can convince me to give Fifa another go I’m pretty sure where my 35 quid is heading, To good Fake names here I come
UK League
West Midlands Village ——— Aston Villa - AVL
West Midlands City ———— Birmingham City - BIR
Lancashire ——————– Blackburn Rovers - BLA
Middlebrook ——————- Bolton Wanderers - BOL
South East London Reds ——– Charlton Athletic - CHA
Merseyside Blue ————— Everton - EVE
West London White ————- Fulham - FUL
Merseyside Red —————- Liverpool - LIV
Man Blue ———————- Manchester City - MAC
Man Red ———————– Manchester United - MAU
Teeside ———————– Middlesbrough - MID
Tyneside ———————- Newcastle United - NEW
Pompy ————————- Portsmouth - POR
Wearside ———————- Sunderland - SUN
North East London ————- Tottenham Hotspur - TOT
West Midland Stripes ———- West Bromwich Albion - WBA
East London ——————- West Ham United - WHU
Lancashire Athletic ———– Wigan Athletic - WIG
French Clubs
Corse Sud ——————— AC Ajaccio - AJA
Azur ————————– AS Monaco - MON
Bourgogne ——————— AJ Auxerre - AUX
Aquitaine ——————— Bordeaux - BOR
Sarthe ———————— Le Mans - LMS
Pas de Calais —————– Lille - LIL
Rhone ————————- Olympique Lyonnais - LYO
Moselle ———————– FC Metz - MET
Meurthe-et-moselle ———— Nancy - NAY
Loire ocean ——————- Nantes - NAT
Alpes maritimes ————— Nice - NIC
Bouches du rhone ————– Olympique Marseille - MAR
Lle De France —————– Paris St. Germain - PSG
Nord ————————– RC Lens - LEN
Bretagne ———————- Rennes - REN
Somesterrine —————— St. Etienne - STE
Franche-Comte —————– Sochaux - SOC
Alsace ———————— Strasbourg - STG
Garonne ———————– Toulouse FC - TOU
Aube ————————– Troyes - TRO
German Clubs
Domstadt ———————- FC Koln - KOL (aka Cologne)
Alm ————————— Arminia Bielefeld - ABD
Rhein ————————- Bayer 04 Leverkusen - LEV
Isar ————————– FC Bayern Munchen - MUN
Westfalen ——————— Borussia Dortmund - DOR
Fohlen ———————— Borussia M’gladbach - BMH
Stahlstadt ——————– MSV Duisburg - DUI
Rhein-main ——————– Eintracht Frankfurt - FRA
Hanseaten ——————— Hamburger SV - HAM
Niedersachsen —————– Hannover 96 - HAN
Hauptstadt ——————– Hertha Berlin - HER
Pfalz ————————- Kaiserslautern - KAI
Karneval ———————- FSV Mainz 05 0 MAI
Franken ———————– FC Nurnberg - NUR
Ruhr ————————– Schalke 04 - SCH
Neckar ———————— VfB Stuttgart - STU
Autostadt ——————— VfL Wolfsburg - WOL
Weser ————————- Werder Bremen - WBR
Other Clubs
Teste Di Moro —————– Cagliari
Lisbonera ——————— SL Benfica - BEN
FC Bosphorus —————— Besiktas JK - BES
FC Belgium ——————– Club Brugge - BRU
Constanti ——————— Fenerbahce - FEN
Russia Rail FC —————- Lokomotiv Moscow - LOK
Peloponnisos —————— Olympiakos - OLY
Athenakos FC —————— Panathanaikos - PAN
Bruxelles ——————— Anderlecht - AND
Sheffcor Domake ————— Shakhtar Donetsk - SDK
AZ Czech ———————- Sparta Prague - SPA
Esportiva ——————— Sporting Lisbon - LIS
Caopolo ———————– Sao Paulo - SAO
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