In recent years, FIFA has not only had a monopoly on authenticity but also offered the best gameplay, too.
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There was a time, on PS2 and beyond, when Pro Evo played such a good game of soccer that its lack of licensed teams and kits wasn’t an issue (this year PES has assembled a patchwork of licenses from individual teams - Barcelona, Liverpool and Dortmund being the only European sides officially featured). If the joy and intensity of attacking in this year’s game is excellent, the defending struggles to keep up.īut away from its core gameplay, PES 2017 struggles. Often, a well-timed slide-tackle results in player control being switched to a nearby teammate while the tackler gets up from the pitch, even though he’s still the favorite to reach the ball first. AI-controlled teammates sometimes double up on the opposing player with the ball, ignore simple interceptions during scrambles for possession, or simply get in each other’s way. But in congested mid-fields and as the ball moves toward the box, defending can become clumsy and haphazard.
It’s a mixture of positional play and timing, and slide tackling feels pleasingly potent. If playing with the ball has taken a big stride forward, defending this year is more of a qualified success. Dramatic, aesthetically pleasing arcs can be produced on the run, from deep outside the box, or under pressure from opposing players, making flowing, edge-of-the-seat football not just possible but common, and on all levels of the game. Crosses, too, just feel more user-friendly. True, through balls aren’t so handy for build-up play-short ones played as part of midfield triangles are often frustratingly underpowered, which can often pull you into messy scraps-but in the final third, they feel reliably deadly. Through balls and crosses have a high success rate and always feel dangerous. One more particularly prominent element of PES’ improvements this year is the fluidity of attacking play. Still, it’s a useful touch to slow down play and wait for options, no matter which players are on the pitch. Like FIFA’s system, the exact moves your player will pull off depend on their skill level, so it’s less impactful with John Stones or even Eric Dier than Raheem Sterling or Erik Lamela. In PES 2017, the tight-control dribbling offers a rough equivalent to FIFA’s right-stick skill system-an accessible way to wrong-foot defenders, open up space, and create unexpected angles. PES has a pretty deep set of skills buried in its control system, but it’s intricate to the point that learning more than a one or two showpieces is beyond most players. More specifically, this year the skill dribbling ability comes into its own. This year, their improvement makes building up an attack or just knocking the ball around a pleasure again, even (crucially) away from the top-tier teams. Take first touches, the response time once you’ve pressed shoot or pass, and the sense of weight and momentum carried through turns when dribbling-in previous years, these joints and hinges of play were where PES creaked the loudest. These add up to a sharper, more agile game and collectively contribute to the feeling that PES 2017 has improved all over. There are also big improvements to ball control, turning, and the time it takes for players to recover after physical contact and changes of direction. Low one-handed dives, instinctive blocks with a single leg, and more authoritative claims under high-balls all help give this year’s keepers a reassuring sense of life and ability.
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Goalkeepers are a good example of the former-they’ve been heavily (and necessarily) reworked, offering not just a more realistic defense against corners and saveable shots, but also a dynamic set of animations that help give PES the kind of authenticity the series often lacked. The improvements this year are a mixture of the specific and the general. Yes, there are signs here that PES’ rivalry with FIFA has led to an unnecessary overextension in features and modes, but the core of PES 2017-the soccer it plays-is competitive again.
And in terms of representing the global event, Konami’s PES 2017 is a genuine step forward for a series. And, perhaps most visibly of all, the clattering circus of the soccer season itself-which both FIFA and PES must increasingly reflect and celebrate in order to stay relevant-has emerged from summer hibernation. Pro Evolution Soccer 2017 has arrived, with FIFA trailing close behind.
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