The fierce war waged between FIFA and Pro Evolution Soccer has eased up somewhat in recent years. No longer is Konamis football offering regarded as a legitimate alternative to FIFA now it is a subcultural choice for those who have had enough of EAs monopolising soccer game. With its bogus team names, inferior graphics and weird player ratings, its not hard to see why FIFA pulled away in the race to become the dominant title in the football-sim genre. It comes as a great surprise that the globes second favourite football game should have exclusive rights to the biggest competition in club football, the Champions League. Knowing Pro Evos precarious position compared to FIFA, many people had expected EA to flex their muscles and liberate the Champions League from Pro Evo for their own use and reveal the news in a dramatic E3 announcement: no such thing occurred.