There’s always a lot of debate when it gets to this time of the year about which football game is the best. For the past few years the FIFA franchise has been getting better and better whilst PES seemed to be getting worse. Maybe this year is Konami’s year, though, as absolute first impressions had me sold. The passing is realistic and actually requires you to power and aim it correctly, rather than just hitting the button and having the ball find your teammate perfectly.
The shooting is not very satisfying, as you can’t strike the ball with any real power because the ball reacts like a half-inflated balloon every time you have a shot from outside of the box. This doesn’t mean it’s hard to score though, as the goalkeepers occasionally let in very soft goals and often fumble the ball leaving an easy tap-in. Dribbling is a bit of a mixed bag, running forward with the ball is good as you have 360 degree control over your player, but trying to turn in the opposite directing is slow and really takes the momentum out of an attack. In previous games, running past defenders was far too easy but PES 11 has changed that, now it is slightly too hard to get past them.
As always, here is a video so you can see for yourself how the game plays.
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Good feature.
I’m a huge FIFA fanboy, one of the few things I’m a fanboy of and I first played the PEs demo last week I thought it sucked and turned it off at half time.
I started playing it at the weekend (for some reason) and couldn’t stop – I’ve now clocked up loads of games and there are many aspects of it that are miles better than FIFA. The trick was to not play it like it was FIFA
Passing is probably on a par with both games having their plus points and negatives, but dribbling is sublime, I love how different players dribble differently. Someone like Messi (prob the best dribbler in the world) is really hard to shake off the ball and you can run through defences with ease – try that with a less skilled player and you’ll be tackled easily
There are many other aspects that I’m just getting used to after playing FIFA every year since FIFA International Soccer’s début in 1994 and shunning Pro Evo even when it was clearly better – I think FIFA 11 will have to massively step up its game to be a better game of football than this.
I did find that once you get used to ProEvo you really have to step up the difficulty level as it seems quite easy, but once I was playing against Barca on the hardest it was like watching them really play football
And although I will be buying FIFA, I suspect Pro Evo will be a lot closer to actual football, and I may – for the 1st time ever pick it up as well
(wow this comment is longer than I meant it to be)