
The most notable area which drew criticism in PES 2016 but has been comprehensively fixed in this year’s offering is the game’s menu system. There’s an incredible amount of fine-control over tactics, which can easily be switched according to match situations – you can even instruct your players to ape Barcelona’s tiki-taka style or Jurgen Klopps’ gegenpressing, with potentially hilarious results if their close-control skills fall short of those possessed by Messi et al. Forward players, for example, are wont to point when they embark on runs, rendering the through-ball pass much more useful than in Fifa, and central defenders steadfastly refuse to charge upfield like headless chickens when opposition attackers encroach on your penalty area. Loose balls ping around convincingly: you must work hard to get them under control, and your adrenalin levels are just as likely to be spiked by a scrappy period of penalty-box pinball as by an immaculate volley from a perfectly executed cross. Passes go exactly where you aim them, at the speed you specify.
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PES 2017’s standout attribute – which harks right back to the glory days of the series – is the sheer football feel it offers. Compared to the commercial might of Fifa 2017, it’s still an underdog of Leicester City proportions, but in some fundamental areas it outshines its brash, flashy rival. Happily, PES 2017 builds considerably on that sudden improvement, addressing many (though not all) of the criticisms that still dogged its predecessor. However, last year’s PES 2016 represented an impressive comeback, thanks mainly to vastly improved graphics and physics brought by a switch to the Fox game engine, which also powered Metal Gear Solid V. As a result, Fifa became one of the UK’s best-selling games, PES stagnated. But Fifa had the flashy presentation and its expensive official licence, and from 2008 onwards a much-improved on-pitch experience, allowing it build a seemingly unassailable lead. PES was the option for the purists, its stimulating fast-paced and highly tactical gameplay providing a thrilling simulation of the beautiful game. In the early 2000s, though, PES’s annual tussle with EA Sports’ Fifa was one of the games industry’s great rivalries.
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S ince the mid-2000s, Pro Evolution Soccer (now formally abbreviated to PES) has resembled one of those once-great footballing names now reduced to scraping an existence in the lower divisions – a Leeds United or Sheffield Wednesday, say.
