Calling basic saves "World class", comparing shots on goal to golf shots, as well as screaming people's names when in possession of the ball. The PES 4 commentary team featured Peter Brackley and Trevor Brooking, and they must have been given free reign of the recording studio and a crate of cans, because the stuff they came out with was both bizarre and brilliant. Of course it will, all football games are. The Nuggets Of Footballing Wisdom From The Commentary Team
Do I gamble on a down blue Thierry Henry, or do I give an up green Jeremey Aliadiere the start? These were the dilemmas that kept Pro Evo enthusiasts up at night. If Mark Viduka was on an up red arrow, the hat-trick was already scored. If Ronaldinho was on a down grey arrow, you couldn't play him. One little arrow beside a player's name was enough to rule him out of a game, or give him a surprise start. The animation captured all the emotion of the beautiful game, and it didn't matter that the actual in-game graphics were no where near as good as what we saw in the intro, because we knew we were about to experience something special. Rarely does a game's intro get you so pumped up that you feel like you are actually about to step onto the pitch in one of the World's most famous stadiums for a cup final. To honour this milestone for a game that gave us so much, here we have 12 reasons that Pro Evolution Soccer 4 was so universally well loved.
Well, apart from GTA Vice City, obviously.
If the lads came around and the PS2 was out, there was only one game that was being played.
At the time, playing FIFA was social suicide. This was the game that officially announced Konami as the King of the football video game world. Pro Evolution Soccer 2 and 3 were great games in their own right, but PES 4 was the daddy. Pro Evolution Soccer 4 was released in Europe, and it was the best football game we had ever played.ฤก0 years on, and the memories of that damn near perfect footy sim still vividly play over and over in our minds. On October 15th, 2004, our lives were changed by a video game.