We examine the defining moments of last-gen gaming, we take a look at the developers who pushed last-gen gaming to the very extreme, beyond what anyone ever thought was possible. Last-gen may have come and gone, it surely had some underrated games but the jaw-breaking milestone created by hard-working developers can’t be forgotten in a hurry.
Let us examine the list.
5. EA Canada
I am a passionate fan of the PES franchise right from the days of the original PlayStation. It was the real football simulation, at least it had terrific gameplay that got a lot of people addicted to it. However, Last-gen, PES was nothing but an embarrassing joke. Nothing changed with each PES release, basically the same scripted commentary and game-play with minor graphical overhaul.
I decided to try to FIFA and it automatic became my favorite football simulation game. The new first touch control and the new celebrations gave me a sense of humor while using the controller. EA Canada redesigned their engine and constantly introduced new and exciting features with every release.
PES took some steps back last-gen, but they have made some strides especially with the PES 2016 and I really can’t stop playing PES 2017 Demo on my PS4 while waiting patiently for the retail copy. There are tons of improvements, thanks to Kojima’s Fox engine.
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jb227
great list….although i’d probably replace polyphony or ea canada with Irrational, because when you are talking about pushing the envelope, newer & better soccer sims and racing games aren’t necessarily groundbreaking, and haven’t seen more than minor upgrades over the years, whereas Irrational put out two of the best and most imaginative titles of this generation in bioshock & infinite…for world building alone they should come before the other two companies
andy
You forget Gran Turismo 6. It almost pushed full 1080p running at 1440×1080. It had day to night transitions and shadows/lighting and also dynamic real time weather that can randomly occur (things that the Forza series still can’t do this day even on current gen).
So many more games too like God of War 3, Ratchet and Clank A Crack in Time (60fps that Insomniac Games stopped targeting because nobody praised them for it at the time) and Killzone 2 (and then 3 obviously, I mention the 2nd one as even that one has never been outdone by anything in Xbox 360’s lifetime since so the 3rd one obviously widens that gap even more enhanced further by 3D and Move support).