I’ve still got the calloused groove in my thumb to bear witness to the amount of time I spent with this one. Ryan Clements // Social Media Specialist, SCEA It’s the type of game that you need to barricade yourself indoors for days on end to fully play. Sid Shuman // Senior Manager of Social Media, SCEAįallout 4 has everything.
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Back in May, I wrote this tweet: “Finished a series of quests in The Witcher 3 that was probably more emotionally powerful than the entire story of any game I’ve ever played.” Months later, I can stand by those words. Nick Suttner // Lead Account Manager, SCEA And while it may be voluminous in its myriad masochistic challenges, it’s the balletic platforming and devious level design that coheres the experience into something irresistible. N++ lies somewhere between improv comedy and throwing yourself down a flight of stairs. Fred Dutton // Social Media Manager, SCEE I poured countless hours into sheepishly exploring its streets in 2015, and loved every horrible second. Go on, then, just one more game.Nobody builds worlds with such grisly panache as From Software, and the fearsome town of Yharnam is arguably its most focussed and memorable creation yet.
#BEST GAMES OF 2016 PS3 PRO#
And for many people, the classic mid-’00s era Pro Evo beats it as an all-round football game it’s definitely split this office at any rate.īut for sheer "JUST LOOK AT THAT GOAL! THAT WAS LIQUID FOOTBALL!" joy, it will never be bettered. Still, dedicated fans keep the flame alive with leagues, events, and patched versions of the game that incorporate modern data – the wonderful, crazy nutters.Ĭan it compete with FIFA for realistic gameplay or Football Manager for exhaustive statdom? No, obviously not. It should have been the start of something great, but SWOS was somehow allowed to be eclipsed by FIFA and PES. Management features and player trading were boosted by the inclusion of a whopping 1500 teams and 27,000 players. You got the same fantastic arcade-oriented gameplay, but the title comprehensively acknowledged the rest of the world’s existence, with the kind of slavish devotion of a true footballing aficionado. It took everything that was great about Sensible Soccer and just ran with it. It couldn’t last, of course – but boy was it fun while it did.ġ) Sensible World Of Soccer (1994, Amiga)Īlmost 25 years young, SWOS is still top of the league. You could waltz through five tackles, if you had a skillful enough player, but you couldn’t get away with just running the ball into the net. You could score screamers from 40 yards or tap-ins after a goalmouth scramble. Not quite as frantically insane as Sensible Soccer, not quite as gloriously detailed as FIFA 18, but instead a wonderful mid-way between the two extremes. On the gameplay side, it was as fluid and playable as football games get. The Master League had by now developed into a proper four-division set-up, with promotion, relegation and a Champions League equivalent and there were even, finally, proper player names. What made it so special? Just… everything. But that would be silly, so instead we’ve picked the probable highest point in a series of very high ones. Frankly, we could have had all of them in this list. We could have picked any of the four games from Pro Evo 2 to Pro Evo 5 and made a case for its inclusion.
That its standards did eventually drop was inevitable, but it doesn’t make the glory years from 2002-2005 any less special. Well, Pro Evolution Soccer managed the same feat. The Simpsons did that from about season 3 to season 9, for instance, but it’s pretty rare. But then it does – for year after year after year.
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There are times in popular culture when a thing – band, TV series, game, whatever – reaches such a peak, you think it can’t possibly stay there. But in truth ISS Pro Evolution was already creeping ahead of FIFA by this time it was more realistic yet also more playable – and that’s a winning combination in any game. While the Master League was a great addition to the series, it would have meant nothing if the gameplay hadn’t matched up to it. Instead, it gave you the chance to shape the team of your dreams, packing it with attacking midfielders if you chose, or instead making sure you had a Mourinho-solid defence. You could buy and sell players, but you used points earnt by winning games, rather than money, and there was none of the complicated day-to-day running of the club that you’d have to endure in Championship Manager.
And it was here that it first appeared.Īlthough at this stage a relatively basic affair, the Pro Evo Master League still bolted a decent career sim on to an already superb football game. Ah, the Master League: just how many hours have we spent cocooned in your comforting embrace, steadily building up a team of honest pros and turning them into world beaters? Probably several thousand – and that’s no exaggeration.
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