Pro Evolution Soccer 2015: Hands-On Impressions

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Re: Pro Evolution Soccer 2015: Hands-On Impressions

As with most EA titles, FIFA suffers from AI that's easily broken. No matter how you use the sliders, the code becomes predictable and you can have success doing the same things. And it carries over to user versus user. There are some structural things about player movement and reactions that are poor, but it's fundamentally, a complete lack of unpredictability that makes the game boring after a fashion.

PES does a much better job with this. What AI players will do in any given situation seems more varied, while still be a "correct" outcome. Not great by any means, but much better. Especially if you play with and against different teams and styles often.

Great points.

This weekend I had more free time than usual on my hands, so I played with random teams, Superstar difficulty, and all manual controls. Amazing games. I usually play on Professional, but since the patch the game to me plays so much better with realistic fouls, etc, so I decided to crank up the difficulty for the challenge. The only huge issue I have with it still is the cursor switching on defense. Sometimes it doesn't switch to the player I want.

Here are the games that I played and each game was so different than the others.

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Re: Pro Evolution Soccer 2015: Hands-On Impressions

I was underwhelmed by '14, and have been by every release since PES 5 or 6? Cant remember which one. PES '14 had so many things I liked, and so many animations and gameplay sequences that just looked plain out more realistic than FIFA, but the goalies were a killer, and also the controls ... imo FIFA has far better controls, especially since I play all manual, it didnt seem like PES manual controls were any good whatsoever.

I really do hope '15 on next gen is amazing.

[SimonDD]

Re: Pro Evolution Soccer 2015: Hands-On Impressions

I like that FIFA has a competitor so they force each other to keep innovating, but I'll stick with FIFA