Football Games and how they've evolved - Part 4

Electronic Arts through EA Sports published the official FIFA licensed football game as far back as late 1993. There was a lot of competition in football based games at the time where games such as Sensible Soccer dominated. Personally I always felt (incorrectly I might add) that the FIFA series was a poorly developed franchise and that it would never gain a proper foothold among gamers. As Sensible Soccer fell to one side the PES series from KONAMI took over and seemed unbeatable.

 (above video credited to nintexs uploaded to youtube on Sep 10, 2011)

I had played some of the FIFA games on DOS based systems and on the SNES but it wasn't until I played FIFA 10 on the XBOX360 where I realised they had overtaken the Pro-evolution soccer series in terms of playability. One gripe I do have....EA appear to shut down the ability to play online within two years of the games release, for example FIFA10 no longer supports online play where's I purchased a second hand copy of PES 6 and I can still play online. I don't feel I have to fork out 50euro every two years in order to play football online with EA sports.