John Doyle’s The World is a Ball is a soccer masterpiece. It captures the true spirit of “the beautiful game,” from the Eastern European city of Bratislava to the football frenzy known as Buenos Aires (and everything in between). It is a reminder of our love for the game and what makes our sport universal. The fans, the stadium, the players, and most importantly the atmosphere create the world’s most popular game and Doyle recreates each with brilliant mastery. The author tackles the worldwide phenomenon known
I am always stricken with the dilemma of buying a sports game year, after year. After playing FIFA 11, I am so happy that EA Sports picked up where the left off last year…and they have gone even further. Not to mention, you have listened as the game has sold 2.6 million copies in just five days… Once you pick up this game, you are going to spend plenty of hours just drooling over the play that the game gives. The
PES 2011 gives FIFA Soccer 11 a run for its money. Everybody knows Konami’s Winning Eleven series was pure brilliance. Well we now have a modern counterpart with PES 2011, one of the most realistic and fluid games to date. It is a legitimate competitor to EA Sports and FIFA Soccer 11, which has gotten a bit of a head start with an earlier launch date. Choosing PES 2011 or FIFA 11 comes down to some simple choices. Do you want to
As a teenager I was a big fan of American football and the Buffalo Bills. The Bills happened to be on quite a run, making an appearance in four consecutive Super Bowls. Trouble began with one field goal gone wide right as the Bills lost four Super Bowls in a row. Today the team built by the likes of O.J. Simpson, Jim Kelly, Thurman Thomas, and Bruce Smith is winless in the first 5 games of the 2010 NFL season. What lesson did
The Goalie: My Story is a special title. Goram will always be remembered as a character on and off the field, but he is also unquestionably the best keeper to ever come out of Scotland. That isn’t just my opinion, but that of Sir Alex Ferguson, who wrote the afterword for the book. Walter Smith of Rangers fame contributed the foreword and spoke of Goram’s desire and emotions and of his favorite moments of “The Goalie”. The style reminds me of
KONAMI released a detailed video explaining the intricacies of Pro Evolution Soccer 2011 Master League Online mode.
Producer Shingo ‘Seabass’ Takatsuka uses the new footage to explain how the new mode operates, detailing the basic mechanics such as player transfers and how the player can compete against their peers. Seabass also uses the video to introduce a number of other advances to the new game, such as the Stadium Edit mode.