![]() The midfield axis of power known as Lee Carsley and Tommy Gravesen took no prisoners in the middle of the park, while Big Duncan Ferguson pummelled defenders like they were burglars in his house. ![]() Obviously, with this feature to write I went back and played the game again, and I had to smile to see the team still kicking butt in the Master League. My “Merseyside Blue” team ruled all that winter and summer, I can tell you. I loved PES 4 pretty much instantly and played the absolute wallop out of it. #Pro Evolution Soccer 4 ps2I’m not sure what moved me to get the Xbox version over the PS2 one, but I think it was mostly to do with the fact that I didn’t have a lot of Xbox games at that point, and I wanted to start growing my collection. I’d played all the previous PES games on my PS2, but I decided to get the fourth iteration on Microsoft’s machine. #Pro Evolution Soccer 4 proI’d been a fan of Konami’s football (that’s what we call soccer in the UK, and it’s how I’ll be describing it in this feature) releases since ISS Deluxe way back on the Super Nintendo, and the Pro Evo series had actually made me abandon the FIFA series of games completely. During the summer of that year I’d been bought a, now discounted, Xbox as a present, and I was slowly building a small library of games for it. I remember I got PES 4 during Christmas 2004. Had I done so, I’m pretty certain that the Xbox would have been the console I used for multiplats, especially if Pro Evolution Soccer 4 is anything to go by. ![]() Had I been in a situation where I could have afforded all three sixth gen consoles, I would have snapped them up in an instant, as each one had games I would have been happy to play. Such a viewpoint is a ludicrous one, of course. Being an entrenched PS2 owner relatively early in the “console war” meant that I was invested in the console being a success, and that I was actually rooting in some ways for the Xbox to not succeed so that I could feel I’d made the “correct” choice. The PlayStation had enchanted me in such a manner during the fifth gen that when it came to the sixth gen for me, it was PS2 or bust. I was probably guilty of it to a certain extent, as well. ![]() Ultimately, some people just were never going to get on board with the original Xbox, no matter what it brought to the table, with Japanese video game enthusiasts in particular shunning the machine en masse. By the time all was said and done, Sony defeated Microsoft by a comfortable score of 120 million units to roughly 34 million units. Whereas having superior multiplats was a serious shot in the arm for Sony in the fifth generation and Microfsoft themselves in the seventh generation, it did little to really help the original Xbox. This usually meant that most multiplats looked best, and generally played best, on Microsoft’s machine. Both the GameCube and PS2 were capable of impressive graphics and sound, but the Xbox really was a step above the two. ![]() I think it’s fair to say that the Xbox was by far the most powerful console on offer during the sixth gen. How a console handles multiplats is usually a good barometer as to how successful it will be, but in the case of the sixth generation, this wasn’t really how things panned out. Xbox Month continues with a look at another game that wasn’t an exclusive to the original Xbox. ![]()
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