The best sports games on the current consoles

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Originally posted by Tonic the Drunkhog
I thought FIFA 2002 was good until I played Pro Evolution Soccer 2 (winning eleven). FIFA is unplayable after pro evolution soccer. I think konami made an annoucement that this was coming to the US early next year.

FIFA, like most EA games, has sucked ever sicne it went 3D.

Sicne then there have been some great footy games though, such as the Worldwide Soccer games on Saturn and Striker Pro / UEFA Striker for Dreamcast (which Europeans love and NAers seem to hate, strangely enough)....

The Pro Evo / Winning 11 series has a great reputation. But alas, I have not owned a version yet. Maybe soon.

[Bonestorm]

Originally posted by sggg
Worldwide Soccer games on Saturn

The first worldwidw soccer was the best. I played 98 with the polygon graphics and it didn't have the same feel. I never played 97, is it like the first one?

[StriderKyo]

Originally posted by sggg
FIFA, like most EA games, has sucked ever sicne it went 3D.

Hey, not so! World Cup '98 and FIFA '99 were two of the most fun sports games I've ever played. It was pretty much downhill from there, though. If Winning Eleven is coming here (uh, it's not just J-League & national teams, is it?) I may have to check that out, especially since World Cup 2002 was so wack.

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Originally posted by Tonic the Drunkhog
The first worldwidw soccer was the best. I played 98 with the polygon graphics and it didn't have the same feel. I never played 97, is it like the first one?

I didn't play the first one but 97 and 98 are both pretty similar, so I'd guess it's more like 98.

The comparison between 97 and 98 is interesting. In some ways 97 was a bit more fun, but 98 was more full featured. The thing with 98 was that you could score more cheap goals, if I recall... and there were little problems like the took out the scoreboard animations and whatnot. ---- It was nice to have more international teams (Czech!) and the Premiership in the 98 though. I actually painstakingly went though and used the rename feature to rename each and every Premiership player so I could play in the accurate league for that game.

I guess it's a toss up which game was better but they were both great fun. The gameplay was some of the best I have found in 3D football, even if it was not that simmish.



I wish I could have combined the features, teams, options, and training modes from Striker Pro 2000 (which are all soooooooooo cool!) with the gameplay of WWS97/8. Then you'd have the best football game ever.

[BioMechanic]

I hate to be anal, I really do, but the recent Xbox Sega baseball game is called simply World Series Baseball....NOT WSB 2K3. 2K3 is coming to consoles next year.

Chalk up another vote for Hot Shots Golf 3 - I hate golf, but this was some of the most fun I had this year.

Winning Eleven Six is coming Stateside as well - yay!

I also think the gameplay of Tennis 2K2 is much deeper than Virtua Tennis' - you have more control of your shots, which makes rallies longer and more interesting. I also like how they toned down the auto-dive that ruined so many points in the original VT. I've spent many many hours playing this four-player - it's ace (ha ha).

Can anyone comment on which version of NBA Street is better? I'm most interested in a comparison between the Gamecube and PS2 controllers, but any details would help (I need to pick up this game).

[Takumi]

Originally posted by StriderKyo
If Winning Eleven is coming here (uh, it's not just J-League & national teams, is it?) I may have to check that out, especially since World Cup 2002 was so wack.

I have both WE5, WE6, and WE6 101% English translation, and they include national teams (there is a 2002 World Cup roster patch out, I think) and most European clubs. If you want to play the JFA, there is WE6 J-League, all Japanese.

WE6 is the best nextgen football game, period. Heavy in text, so the English patch helps. But IF it does come out here you should definately get it. It's SOOO good.

[sggg]

Originally posted by BioMechanic
Winning Eleven Six is coming Stateside as well - yay!

What details do you have? It's PS2, right? Any release date announced? Any details on leagues and whatnot..

I just did some searching and I found the Japanese box art. It's quite funny:






Edit: Doh, found the answer myself:

http://www.evo-web.co.uk/news/entries/00000129.shtml
"Winning Eleven 6 will be released on the PS2 exclusively and has a provisional date of March 2003."

March 2003.. it shall be mine.

[Takumi]

Originally posted by sggg
I just did some searching and I found the Japanese box art. It's quite funny:

I prefer the fan translation version's cover myself



TOO big to post, but even better
Fan Cover FULL SIZE

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LOL

I love the sentiment they have there and all.... but *shudder*... yeesh, that is one fugly ugly skanky ho' they used. Her arms are hairier than mine!

[FuryFox]

Well, I know this is an old thread, but, I didn't feel like starting a new one just to talk about this:

I borrowed Sega Soccer Slam from the store today (seeing as how it's spring break and I've nothing to do over the weekend), and my brother, a friend, and I have been playing it for about 4 hours straight. -and we're still finding new tricks here and there.

I don't know if it gets old really quick, but so far, it seems like a really polished and fun game. This is the most fun I've had with a sports game since Brutal Sports Football, and I have a feeling not too many people know about it, or are put off by the ugly box art and character designs (which all tend to grow on you as you play the game, and all their animations and characterizations win you over). I'm surprised more people don't mention it...I'm playing the Xbox version btw, although I assume the 'cube version's pretty similar (no Dolby though).

Favorite moment so far: Performing the "spotlight kick" with El Diablo, as the 'bullet time' engages and the game sounds muffle out, you hear children in the background chanting his name.