The most-revolutionary soccer video game ever created
But "PES 2008" for the Wii surpasses "FIFA" – and possibly every other soccer video game ever made. It integrates the Wii's motion controls perfectly and must be played to be believed. You literally draw up plays on the field by using the Wiimote to drag lines to where you want the ball and your players to go. And you shake the nunchuk to kick the ball, attempt a header on a corner kick or battle midair for the ball.
The career modes are deep and lengthy. One, the Champions Cup, allows you to start with a club team and work up to playing in the International Cup (the game's name for the World Cup).
Along the way, you'll be provided tutorials with more and more advanced gameplay methods.
Also, you get to take up to three of your defeated opponents' best players depending on your margin of victory. Your players also gain and improve abilities the more they play, and you can decide what attributes to enhance.
The online matches can be a little laggy and the long wait to find opponents hints that not many people have the game or play it online. But overall, online is well done, fun and extremely competitive.
The graphics are surprisingly crisp and the players (whose real names and likenesses are included) are rendered nicely and have excellent animated movements.
One of the few drawbacks is the lack of two-player co-op play on the same team.
But that's a small gripe about what might be the most-revolutionary soccer video game ever created.