Hello this is my first reply...
I played fifa since the first version released... and really was for a long time the game of my life... I loved it all... it's graphics and gameplay! Everything!! Fifa 98 was probably the best of the series and i also loved the World Cup 2002.. it was very funny...
But, one day, i buyed a Playstation 1 for 50 € and it came with a game... International Superstar Soccer 2...
The graphics weren't good... and in my first game i lost 0-5 vs Austria... i was playing with Portugal!
My copy of ISS was almost kicked out of my house! But if i had lost 0-5 it was because i needed to learn better the game! So i played again, and again, until i SCORED A GOAL! And the sensation was sooo goood!!! And i become addicted of the series...
All Fifa's were... "mathematical"... if you shoot in (this happens in EVERY VERSIONS of Fifa) that place, with that strong and that direction, you score the goal in the same place and the goalie will make the same move 10000 times!! It's pure MATHEMATIC... there's no AI on Fifa... only if and else statements...
On Pro Evolution Series... well... AI is present and a GREAT gameplay! and the graphics and commentarys aren't a great thing... the aspects that FIFA is better (but isn't EA the marketing king of all sports games?? they know what sells!!!)
Playing nowadays fifa 2004 and Pro Evolution Soccer 3 it's like compare Windows with Linux... One is the marketing king... but the other is better...
Nowadays the Pro Evolution Soccer community is growing... everyday!! FIFA fans are fewer... just like those OS... is a perfect analogy!
i feel like i was a victim of Marketing and now i feel released... so all Fifa fans... open your eyes... because is a better out there to be known!
tnks for reading this