On the contrary, it mixes the game up having a power bar for passing as well as shooting, meaning that no longer can you aimlessly press A, safe in the knowledge that the ball will flow fluidly through each players feet. The aforementioned passing system isn’t as shallow as it might sound. The character animation is still a little robotic in nature, with repetitive, and also occasionally buggy, sequences re-enacted in response to events that just happened in the game. While graphics-wise it is still behind its rival, there is no doubt about it that the presentation of the game has been glossed up, with menu screens looking a bit more polished and less of a gimmick, and player character models looking more realistic, albeit only slightly. Other changes on the pitch further improve on the nuances of the past, sorting out little niggles. Not only can you launch a relentless attack and have the opposing defence on the ropes for an age until you finally slot one in, but also you can decide, at times, to slow the play down and approach victory from a different direction if your original strategy isn’t working quite as well as you might have planned. It seems someone was listening to the complaints of players of the series, as the match action has been slowed to a much more realistic pace, providing enough energy to let aspects like momentum come into play, while still allowing you to be more tactical in your approach at other times. Take for example the pacing of the matches, an instantly noticeable improvement. Konami has finally taken a sizeable step in the right direction here. Where the last couple of titles disappointed, the developers have taken note and created a better game of football as a result. Despite the fairly standard proposed developments for this year’s game (little more than a new passing system and a ‘motion-blur’ effect for a viewing experience just like that of a real-life game of football) in actual fact, the game’s progression has been much more substantial this year. That said, after last year’s dramatic improvements, FIFA didn’t bring much new to the table this year, presenting a prime opportunity for PES to catch up and maybe even overtake, but how did it fare?Īlthough at a glance it would be a fair assumption, it would be unfair to say PES 2011 is indifferent to previous iterations of recent years. PES used to be the more realistic game of football, and subsequently was the football-sim of choice for the more dedicated player, but partly due to FIFA’s game coming on leaps and bounds and partly due to the formula of PES becoming stale, PES has come in at a sorry second-place for the past couple of years. The battle for supremacy favoured PES in the past, although in recent years it has been EA with FIFA who have been leading the way, leaving PES with no option but to follow suit, rather than revolutionise the genre.
I am of course talking about FIFA versus PES. Just when one game asserts its authority, its opposite number bites back with an innovative new feature or two. The football console war is one that has been raging on for many years.
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