Pro Evolution Soccer 3 (PS2) · Retro Football

In the first episode of Retro Football, we look at PES 3 on the PlayStation 2.
#proevolutionsoccer #pes #retrogaming

[@seangowdy408]

This game will always be my favourite and in my opinion it's the best football game ever made.

[@ChorizoMachine]

It's SO good!

[@shawndiboti6191]

pes 4 was my first ever football game when i lived in france and had my ps2 there and i enjoyed it so much. i then moved to the USA but lost the disc for pes and didn’t realize till we had already settled in and unpacked our stuff. i still had the box and would look at it every day just wishing i had pes 4 when i was playing the new pes and fifa games at the time like (2008 and 09) on ps2. one day i decided to go to the game store and stumbled upon winning eleven 7 (USA version of pes 3, not 4) and when i asked one of the store workers what year the game was for he said 2004, so i was delighted, thinking i had finally gotten pes 4 back after all these years. I went home and turned on the game for the first time, and to my disappointment the intro broke the news that i was not playing my beloved pes 4, but an even older version. i wasn’t discouraged though, and gave the game a fair go, and to my astonishment, it was so much better than i could have imagined. i spent hours upon hours playing this game, it’s easily my most played football game in my childhood. even well after having gotten a ps3 and having a blast on the last few great fifas (11,12,13) i still could never resist breaking out the old ps2 to play some pes 3. I was around 7 or 8 when i first got the game, so at the time i didn’t understand master league and never played it hahah! i literally would just play exhibition matches against the cpu or friends or try to win the cups with my favorite team barcelona or catalonia as they were called 😂😂 and the national cup with my dads home country of cameroon as well. i recently just found my old ps2 and will definitely be breaking this game back out, and will look to buy pes 4 and 5 as well to relive my childhood memories with pes 4 and finally try one of the best games ever with pes 5! amazing video and thanks for allowing me to relive my childhood!!

[@thomasparkes5707]

Based blog post

[@gowiththeflowbee8053]

Played this over lock down last year and been playing again the past few weeks. 100% my favourite football games. Simple yet fantastic.

[@ChorizoMachine]

Yes agree with you mate, such an addictive game.

[@gowiththeflowbee8053]

@@ChorizoMachine I definitely need to sit down and edit all the team names lol use to love taking hours to do that back in the day

[@jonnybyrne989]

This is so nostalgic, it's definitely the best football game ever

[@ChorizoMachine]

Agree mate, it's still so much fun to play - even in 2022!

[@mod7930]

There are a lot of reasons which all come together to make Pes 3 one of the best football games ever, if not the best football game. But, one thing that I love about this game, (and it's just a cosmetic thing, I suppose) is the way the players side-foot the ball when they're making a pass. It makes the game look incredibly stylish. Fantastic game !!

[@jankowalski4080]

PES 3 is the best ever im glad you guys covered it anybody that havent played this will never know about its magic im playing all the new games but when i wanna play football there is only one choice for me PES 3

[@el_rooneyo]

Loved the video! Played every PES - 3 was the best hands down. The thing that ruins current football games is “dynamic difficulty”. The way the game changes when you’re winning and losing to try and emulate real life - really frustrating and makes you feel out of control. PES 3 was one of the last games that didn’t seem to do this. Great AI, perfect pacing, and amazing physics for the time!

[@carnebidwell9508]

I'm sure this pes was when beckham had his free kick technique

[@ChorizoMachine]

Yes you're right! I remember seeing the animation for the first time on the PES 3 demo.

[@MrGav196]

I have so many fond memories of this game. Was the ultimate football game to me. It was my first PES and took me away from FIFA until the abomination that was PES 2008 came out

[@dawidklucz849]

I love about this game how accidental accurate and unexpected is!!! Anything here can happens,like on real game

[@Sambrowski10]

Enjoyed this video. There's a few inaccuracies though. PES 3 and 4 were definitely on PC (and excellent).

[@personax5174]

I saw your post on Reddit and watched the video afterwards. I really enjoyed the video. A nice conversation about a football game, reflecting on things from the past by comparing it with todays football games. I hope there will be more content like this with other PES games or football games in general. You can even do it longer if you have enough topics (like an hour podcast or something). I personally think that all the PES games from the Playstation 2 era were on a very good level. I would agree with you that the Ultimate Team/Myclub era contributed to PES' downfall. However it is worth mentioning that PES was weaker even before the Ultimate Team/Myclub era. After PES 6 Konami couldn't find a clear routine on making a good football game. PES 2013 was probably one of the few games that were comparable to PES 1-5 games. After that maybe PES 2016 again. You could maybe do a video about this too why PES was getting weaker after PES 6. The question is does Konami care about making a solid football game when they can earn so much money with Myclub even if people are complaining about the negatives of todays game? Will we ever see again a clean, polished PES game like PES 5 or PES 3?

[@ChorizoMachine]

Thanks for watching and also thanks for the reply! Yes we've got loads planned for the channel, especially when it comes to PES! We love talking about the old (and sometimes the new) football games. I agree with you regarding the myClub era, I didn't like PES 2008 etc. Myself and Dave will probably address this at some point too. Watch out for more videos coming soon and again, thanks for getting involved!

[@DaveDoc1984]

An hour long podcast? :) Can you stomach me and Mike for that amount of time?

[@personax5174]

@@ChorizoMachine Sounds great! I will be waiting :)

[@personax5174]

@@DaveDoc1984 Should be possible :)

[@user-zh2kb2bd6y]

@@ChorizoMachine Please try pes 2008 on ps2 and do a video!! I think is a better version of ps6! On ps3,xbox 360 and pc was a crap.

[@zackolmert9622]

Lazio's front two of Chiesa & Lopez are unstoppabable in this game. Even with a half-chance every touch from Chiesa usually ends up in the back of the net.

[@wb20_a90]

For me personally pes 5 was slightly better. Days of great football games are long gone i reckon. Great video guys. You should do one on pes 5 and pes 13 which was fairly decent too 👍🏾

[@mason5r]

Same pes 5 and pes 2013 the best ones

[@ChorizoMachine]

Thanks for watching! Glad you enjoyed. Will definitely do a video on PES 2013 because I love that version of PES.

[@mason5r]

@@ChorizoMachine hell yeah .love your channel!

[@DaveDoc1984]

PES 2013 was VERY good.

[@zackolmert9622]

I got a ps2 & play both PES 3 & PES 5 Whilst I play PES 3 more as in my opinion 2003 was one of my favorite era's in football the gameplay on PES 5 is more fluid & realistic.

[@seanpoole4026]

I’ve recently discovered the channel and love the retro videos. PES 3 was my favourite version too. Can I ask a very newbie question? How do you emulate a game/what emulator is best in order to get PES 3 to work on a PC? And, what is the process? Is there a link you could post to help me as I would love to get back into playing the game.

[@hayz1313]

PCSX2

[@jons1809]

Trad Bricks lol. Brings back memories

[@sleakridge]

Totally agree with the "golden age" comments. Still waiting for Konami (or EA sports for that matter) to make a game better than PES 4.

[@ChorizoMachine]

I don't ever see footy gaming being that good again mate, unfortunately.

[@galaxy0339]

There is one thing about PES 4... it still keeps up against any other football game. You can do almost anything you could see IRL. It does not suffer from having just an 8-way direction control, it never feels limited and has a depth that most newer games don't have. You can never know what's going to happen in PES 4!

[@AndyKusanagi86]

the only thing that takes away from my experience with PES3 is the referee only appearing in the cutscenes. i didn't mind it much on the PS1, but on the PS2 i feel that undercuts the realism of the game (especially when you remember there's a referee on the cover...). that aside, this was an excellent chapter in the history of PES, i feel 2 through 6 was the golden age.

[@MIris44474]

Wish they brought it back with just better graphics

[@Bighotdog1980]

Pes 5 was stop start stop start and pes 3 was good 👍

[@ChorizoMachine]

Yes that's the worst thing about PES 5 - the ref stops play every few seconds!

[@guidowinter]

I liked all pes, from 2 till 6. We played them all and we had the most fun with 6, because everybody got good at it, so it was fun playing 2 vs 2 and even 3 vs 3. It was great. I liked 4 and 6 because they where more attacking i guess and I am good at defending and tackling. I have to say i enjoyed fifa 20 playing seasons and now i am playing for the first time fut in fifa 21 and i like it too. You can play fut now coop. But i have to say, you need to put in the time for it and the game is changing so much with updates. I think now it is good for me and i am learning to play my tiki taka 433 against people who counter all the time. It is fun! Ps: can i be in the next footy video? 😁😉

[@ChorizoMachine]

FUT co-op sounds interesting, how exactly does that work? One person runs the team, transfers etc and other person helps when playing matches?

[@guidowinter]

I don't know for sure how it works actually. I did not try it yet ☺️

[@DaveDoc1984]

FUT just isn't my cup of tea. The whole getting Cards etc...

[@Nades_]

I know exactly what you mean when you say there's something missing about modern games. They've lost their soul and charm - too much effort of soulless gamemodes like UT and My Club, but also the gameplay just doesn't feel as unpredictable and varied, along with AI being terrible now days as it feels too scripted rather than a properly developed AI.

[@Davy247]

The worst football game I’ve played has to be World Soccer on the Sega Master System, the celebrations were a unique though lol.

[@dawidklucz849]

Me and my fellows always dream about create galacticos team with all best players at the time ,imagine two equal 11 in single team!!! Obviously in good old Master League it was impossible!!!! Nowdays you just pay and pick up package of cards!!! Sick and pointless! Wheres a spirit,where is vision ,wheres a character in modern virtual football!?