Pro Evolution Soccer (PS2)

I just have to say that this is without a doubt the greatest football game ever to appear on any console. The original ISS games from Konami set the standard for all other football games to follow and has always been way ahead in the ISS versus FIFA rivalry. I purchased this game on release date after reading about what was supposed to be ' the greatest football game ever ' and ' the game to beat FIFA 2002 ' and i can definitely say that it is both of these and more. Konami have built on the success of the original ISS series for the PSX and this game is superb. Konami have easily brushed aside the competition from the FIFA series and moved ...  Read the complete review

Pro Evolution soccer is the latest instalment of the long running and the best football game series ever, the ISS series. Although it was not the most successful the series was certainly the most realistic and most accurate representation of football that you could get. FIFA was always the best selling footy game, but now things in my eyes have changed. I used to be a huge FIFA fan, and actually I used to hate ISS games, I could never played them. But when I seen the first shots of Pro Evo Soccer, I was gob smacked. Loads of the players looked like their real counterparts, and when I read about the game well its became even better. ISS games have always had great physics ...  Read the complete review

Way back when the universe was created a lot of irrelevant matter was created: Quills, Cassette tapes and the Sega Saturn are examples of this. However in all this insignificant matter there was some of it that was at least slightly useful: the wheel, fire and water being examples of this. Its also seems that two games in particular also date from this era of the worlds creation – FIFA and ISS. These two franchises have been at each others throats for the entire lifetime of the PlayStation and even into the Dark ages of the SNES. ISS was, and still is, the serious choice. For fans who wanted to score in the first five minutes then watch their mate’s futile ...  Read the complete review

Being a Fifa fan since I bought Fifa 98, it felt strange going into Virgin Megastore to buy Fifa 2002 and coming out of Virgin Megastore with Pro Evolution Soccer! I picked up Fifa, which was at number 8 in the PlayStation 2 charts, and took it to the till. The man at the till asked if I was a football fan and I answered, "Yeah, obviously!" He then asked if I had even played Pro Evolution Soccer and I said no. He then showed me a copy and said it was the best game he had ever played in the world! So, taking this man’s advice, I decided to try out Pro Evolution Soccer – my plan was to take it back and exchange it for Fifa 2002 if it wasn’t very ...  Read the complete review

It’s been a whole year since the PS2 arrived on our beautiful English shores (unless you were really eager and snapped up an import machine). In that year we’ve seen Driving, Fighting and Sports titles galore. One of the biggest sellers is still Football based games and on consoles the two big players have for years been FIFA and ISS. That’s changed slightly recently when This Is Football 2002 turned up and showed us that there was more to choose from other than ISS and FIFA. That attention is likely to be short lived as the big boys are about to wheel out their latest incarnations and Konami are determined that they will have the big seller this ...  Read the complete review