Football games are bigger than ever before, raking in millions for the likes of EA and Konami. But what does 'next-gen' really mean for football games? Well, less repetitive commentary for a start...
Speaking to CVG recently about the future of football games and their move to next-gen systems, Andrew Wilson, executive producer of football, EA explained, "We ran out of space on the disc with current gen. Last year's FIFA had 26 leagues, 15 thousand players, kits, players, stadiums, audio and music, you just run out of space. The next gen discs have got more space so in the short term we will have much more commentary on our games."
Wilson believes that the online sides of PS3 and 360 are where developers can really take football to a new level. "Looking long term, these consoles are now online. And I would love to think that we can start to pump dynamic commentary into the game on a weekly basis so you never hear the same thing twice.
"But think about competitions. Imagine having commentators popping up to commentate on interactive games. So you're not reliant on commentary from our game anymore, you got someone who gets online and comments every week instead, who then gets a reputation."
Food for thought? Look out for our full interview with Wilson in the coming days where he talks more about the evolution of football, gives his opinions on the age-old rivalry between FIFA and PES and discusses how the crowd will play a bigger part in the performance of your team on the pitch.
Am I the only person who mutes the tv when playing pro-evo and sticks his own music on?
No you're not alone. I always hit the mute button on football games as well. The commentary is just annoying...
I don’t mute it completely. I just turn the commentary off and have the crowd with my music on. I find the commentary just p**ses me off and elevates my frustration if things aren’t going well! I don’t even know what the commentaries like on footie games these days! Haven’t had to endure commentary since that FIFA world cup game back in 98. It was my friends and he liked the commentary.
I don’t think it would be all that bad if what was being said tallied with what was going on! I think having people doing commentary live over the Internet could be fun, not sure though.
Am I the only person who mutes the tv when playing pro-evo and sticks his own music on?
No you're not alone. I always hit the mute button on football games as well. The commentary is just annoying...
I don’t mute it completely. I just turn the commentary off and have the crowd with my music on. I find the commentary just p**ses me off and elevates my frustration if things aren’t going well! I don’t even know what the commentaries like on footie games these days! Haven’t had to endure commentary since that FIFA world cup game back in 98. It was my friends and he liked the commentary.
I don’t think it would be all that bad if what was being said tallied with what was going on! I think having people doing commentary live over the Internet could be fun, not sure though.
It could turn out to be very amusing indeed if they allowed two players to be on each team. One to play and one to commentate/goad the opposition.
My favourite ever football commentary was from ISS 64 and wouldn't be creepy if it wasn't for the bizarre way that the phrase was said, but I think it was every single time you made a substitution the commentator would say
If they ran out of space on a DVD9 in the last-gen, how is that going to be different this generation for certain consoles?
And if the concentration is on downloading the additional content rather than having it on the disk, then what about the lower-end that doesn't feature a hard-drive?
My favourite ever football commentary was from ISS 64 and wouldn't be creepy if it wasn't for the bizarre way that the phrase was said, but I think it was every single time you made a substitution the commentator would say
"Fresh blood is coming in..."
In a Dracula-combined-with-Elvis way..
Dracula? don't u mean yhe prince of darkness himself, Jim Rosenthal?
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