

What this variety does is creates a game that not only serves as a fun multiplayer experience but also one that you can contently play on your own for hours on end.įor a soccer game made in 2002, the universally acclaimed World Soccer: Winning Eleven 6 International (Pro Evolution Soccer 2) holds up as an amusing yet very playable game even by today’s standards, and not just because soccer games haven’t changed a great deal with time. The modes that are immediately available to the player include a match mode, a league mode, training mode, cup mode and the crowning jewel of this title, the master league mode where you take a ragtag Sunday league level team and grow them into a batch of world-class superstars. The player will have access to a mass of options to sink their teeth into when they boot this one up. It’s just a different approach for a more tactical and methodical player.

You’ll find that a lot of games end 1-0 and in all honesty, it’s not to the game’s detriment. That means being set up tactically, passing with fluidity and working your chances with care to get an end result worth celebrating. If you want to score goals, you’ll have to work for them. While FIFA will let you end every game with your pals with at least four goals each usually, this title focuses on a more realistic approach. However, what detail it misses in terms of visual splendour, the game makes up for in its gameplay mechanics. The environments and stadiums were a strong point but overall, it’s very clear that FIFA had a clear edge in graphical detail during this era.

For this title and a number of PES games that would proceed it, the graphics would look grainy, bleak and often the textures and character models would be laughable. What is brutally apparent with this title is that it isn’t going to win any awards for its presentation.
