- Pro evolution soccer 2016 review full#
- Pro evolution soccer 2016 review pro#
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That impression stuck with me as I was playing through M圜lub, which is Konami's take on the card-collecting management mode in FIFA. There's more than enough teams to create international competitions, but it remains noticeable while playing through this mode that Konami really does want to you play the Champions League cups instead.
Pro evolution soccer 2016 review full#
It's high time someone picked up the full license to include that one.įinally, the international competition of PES is limited when compared to FIFA. The J-League, for example, is rapidly growing into a major competition and attracting world-class players to it. While there are more than enough properly license players to justify, PES would do well for future editions if it were to pick up some of the domestic competitions that FIFA doesn't cover. Outside of the two teams that made the AFC Champions Cup, for example, there are no Australian teams in PES 2016. Additionally, without the domestic leagues there are more places where teams simply don't exist in the game. Teams that aren't in the Champions Leagues are not licensed, so, if you're like me and a fan of Crystal Palace in the English Premier League, you're going to have to deal with playing a fake-name swap in. Unfortunately, PES' biggest Achilles heel remains its licensing. As these represent the finest competitions around the world, it it intensely interesting to play through them, and with fewer minnows most matches end up feeling like a clash of the titans (go the Kashima Antlers!).īecause most of the really popular teams end up in one of the champions leagues, most players will find a favourite team to play along with. Where FIFA alternates between World Cup and domestic leagues (depending on which edition of the game is launching), PES is all about the Champions Leagues of Europe, Asia, and South America. I also prefer the focus on the regional club games that we find in PES. Konami has added in the ability to control goal celebrations this time around, and that's purely to show off the eye candy behind what is, as far as I'm concerned, the best looking sports game out there at the moment. With more experience under the belt, the presentation of PES 2016 is an order of magnitude more impressive, with players looking especially lifelike close up. PES 2015 was a clear learning curve for the development team, working on the PlayStation 4 for the first time (and using the Fox Engine for the first time). It is in the engine that we see the biggest updates in PES 2016 when compared to last year's edition. The engine looks gorgeous, the crowd's roar is addictive, the way the players move about the pitch I find to be intensely realistic. It makes the game more difficult because spatial understanding is more challenging, but it feels a heck of a lot more like I'm close in on the action, and with PES I want front-row seats. There's a better sense of atmospherics, so much so that where in FIFA I play the game with a side-on camera because it facilitaes a more strategic vide of the action, with PES I play from a close behind-the-back action camera.
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The reasons that I prefer PES remain the same reasons that I have prefered the series for some time now.
Related reading: Nick's review of FIFA 16 - this year's rival to PES 16. I hope EA is ultimately rewarded for taking the step to include women's soccer in its game, but in terms of the football game I'll be playing until next year's inevitable showdown between the two, it'll be PES all the way. This year is no different, at least where the on-pitch action is concerned.
Pro evolution soccer 2016 review pro#
I say this every year, but it remains relevant every year - I prefer Konami's Pro Evolution Soccer (PES) to EA's FIFA.