Gaming Friday 17 Oct

So here's the first of the guaranteed posts. I can't think of anything else to call them so the guarantee is here to stay.
And I'm not sure about the title that might change to. But any who, on with the show.


Today see the release of two game in the UK that will be very popular. One with the casual crowd and the other for the serious gamer.
For the casual Pro Evo Soccer 2009, a "Football" game (as I am from the UK), and Saints Row 2.


PES 09 (You really think I could be bothered to write Pro Evo... ahh forget it), goes directly up against Fifa 09, another football game that is also officially sponsors. So in PES you won't get a Wanye Roonie, you get an equally looking weird guy called Shanye Woonie who plays for Manchester Devils. Ok thats a bit of an exaggeration but gets the point across. The thing that any PES game has going for it is the Gameplay. Many an argument has been made that Fifa has improved but PES still holds it own when it comes to controls. With a flick of the right stick on the controller you could pull off a cheeky little nutmeg pass the goalie and score a goal.
And the subject of controllers, a special one has been released to coincide with PES 09's release.

I love green. It's one of my favorite colours after orange. But this don't look right due to the grey areas. Shame really. Another added feature is that the D-pad response to 16 direction instead of the normal 8. This only works with certain games (such as PES 09) and isn't backward compatible.


Stepping away from PES we enter Saints Row 2. Let me get it out of the way first. It is a rip off of GTA. There's no way of saying otherwise. And if you where to compare Saints 2 to GTA 4, GTA 4 would win hands down. But that's the thing. You can't actually compare the two. GTA 4 takes it self seriously and has occasional comic relief ("Hey cousin do you want to go to the titty bar?" Classic). Where as Saints 2 is just pure comic relief. Where else can the main character have a sex change and no one notice? Saint's 2 is more of a compliment to GTA. It been released at the just the right time, as most people would have started to finish the main story and need another fix.


Sorry for the late post. Something popped up. But I promised a post and thats what you're getting. I'm still going to try and post every day like I said yesterday. But the Guaranteed Three (as I'm now calling them) will definatly, most certainly, be done.
Ice Koobs