A part from EA’s annual golfing titles, there really isn’t many other on the market that can actually compete with the PGA Tour franchise. The series took a little bit of a break last year after the company decided to drop former…
A part from EA’s annual golfing titles, there really isn’t many other on the market that can actually compete with the PGA Tour franchise. The series took a little bit of a break last year after the company decided to drop former…
If you like soccer but you’re as athletic asa bowl of mac ‘n’ cheese, this game is definitely the closest you’re going to get to feeling like a pro player and it’s pretty damn close. Emotional responses are a big deal in this lat…
What are sports games trying to achieve? Two things: flawlessly realistic simulation in a way that’s still fun to play, and a convincing impersonation of the wider universe around the sport. NBA 2K15 is so skilled in achieving bo…
You know what’s great about football ? There are always upsets. Giant killers in the cup, last minute goals, and referee decisions that can decide the fate of a club’s season. It’s exciting, it's unpredictable, but more than …
PES or FIFA , FIFA or PES ? It’s the same question every winter, and we’ve reached a point now where it’s largely a meaningless one. Both franchises have overcome rocky patches to arrive at the level of polish they enjoy today, …
AT SOME POINT over the last few years, 2K decided that what basketball games were lacking more than anything was a gripping, inspirational narrative. Where this idea came from is anyone’s guess, but lo and behold it has been run …
INVARIABLY, WHEN YOU hear fans of the PES series tell you what they love so much about those games, their stories will be tied together by a common thread: variety. They might tell you about a specific goal that they remember, bu…
While basketball might not be widely played in South Africa at least not at a level that gets massive sponsors, TV coverage and massive prize packages it continues to be arguably the most popular of the American sports here on th…
Motorcycle games are as we’ve said so many times before tricky affairs to get right. So often we get a game that screams out about improved physics and all that kind of exciting stuff, only to find that the developers, once agai…
There’s something a little bolted together about PES 2015 . Its confluence of polished next-gen gameplay with decade-old trappings can be a little jarring, but there’s definitely still something there. Some of that old PES magic …
After a year’s leave, EA’s NHL series arrives on Xbox One in what you could charitably call a ‘streamlined’ form in the same way that you could say Sidney Crosby’s teeth were ‘streamlined’ when he took a 100 mph puck to the mush …
Taking the good things in life for granted can be worryingly easy. Oh, EA Canada’s (mostly) beautiful game still boasts brilliant on-field action, coupled with damn near every licensed team, kit and stadia on Earth, huh? Yawn. Th…
Finally, fifa’s underwhelming, lacklustre and unpredictable goalkeepers are being looked at and reworked for this year’s release. developer ea Canada has decided that now is the right time to come clean that the position has been…
To an outsider there may not appear to be all that much different between the annual PES and FIFA shootout, but to those who do follow the beautiful game in its various virtual forms there can be striking, and crucial, differenc…
Last year NBA 2K14 came storming out of the next-gen gates with two rebuilt modes that gave us a glimpse of the future of sports games. This year developer Visual Concepts is focused on making sure the encouraging MyCareer and My…
It’s frightening how lifelike this is.As has become standard practice for EA Sports releases, realism is at the forefront of everything in this year’s FIFA, and permeating every game mode from simple skill games to the typically …
There seems to be a cliché forming when it comes to early opinions of Konami’s football series: ‘It’s the year of PES’. Wrong. Contrary to what you’ve heard this year and the last, PES is not ‘back’. It doesn’t recapture past glo…
A gridiron sim fit for every given Sunday Unlike the golden years of PES, it’s no longer enough for a sports game to get only the sim aspect right. Madden, like FIFA and NBA 2K, has played like the discipline it represents for a …
Razzmatazz isn’t normally a phrase associated with golf, but the Tiger Woods series came along and changed that. It set a bar for the level of polish and engagement you could achieve from what might otherwise be a rather bland ex…
Welcome to September, the month where EA unleash FIFA 15 on the unsuspecting gaming world! Actually, with FIFA games being released every year, the word “unsuspecting” may not be completely correct there… This is true of a lot o…