Fortunately, Ultimate Team garnered multiple new features which enhance the ever-popular fantasy style mode, and the Pro Clubs mode, despite a setback, is still the best mode of any football game to play in teams.Īlthough PES is at an immediate disadvantage due to the lack of licenses acquired compared to the many official teams and leagues on FIFA, they struggled in match presentation also. No new game mode features were really implemented, and the modes that are present, aside from Master League, are merely imitations of what its rival provides, without bringing anything innovative to the table.įIFA tried, and in my opinion failed, to try something new with The Journey, which relied on its fantastic cut scenes to dazzle, whilst forgetting to make sure there was a point to playing the matches. PES took the stance of not changing an awful lot because there wasn’t much wrong in the game modes it had previously offered.
In multi-person matches the defence can turn into a shambles game after game and in general the Goalkeepers’ flaws are exploited a fair bit by crafty players. defenders being unaware when an opposing player tries off-the-ball manoeuvres. If there’d be a criticism it’d be in the A.I. All the smoothness is a distant memory, which limits the enjoyment a great deal.Īs for FIFA, you’d barely notice any change in how it feels when jumping online. For some unknown reason, the whole online side turns into a sluggish affair, to the point where it feels like a different game entirely. Oh wait, yes I have, it was the same last year.
Perhaps earlier than FIFA 17 - a game EA has been surprisingly silent about.I’m not sure I’ve ever noticed such a big difference between offline and online gameplay as seen in PES 2017. Nonetheless, you can expect PES 2017 sometime around September, as was the case with PES 2016.
Neither is it mentioned if you can expect parity between the PC and current generation consoles, which was a bone of contention for the PC gaming community the last time around. Although nothing on Konami's page says anything about that. Hopefully this, along with the series' trademark deficiencies such as poor menus and shoddy tutorials receive a revamp as well. One of our biggest grouses with PES 2016 was its inconsistent defensive AI that made the game a tad frustrating. With adaptive AI being a selling point for games since the time of 1990s fighting game Rise of the Robots, it will be interesting to see how PES 2017 makes good on this feature. "For the first time in a football game, the AI will learn how you play! Player and team behaviour has always been a staple of the PES series, and for PES 2017 Adaptive AI will change sports games forever," the website reads. But one bullet point that caught our fancy is Adaptive AI. PES 2017 touts the tagline "Control Reality", with Konami's webpage showing off features such as Precise Pass, Real Touch, Corner Kick Strategies, and Natural Player Movement. Last year's game was a faster, almost arcade-like experience. This time around there appears to be a difference. The latest entry in Konami's long-running football series, Pro Evolution Soccer 2017 has been announced for the PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, and Xbox One. A tweet from Pro Evolution Soccer Brand Manager Adam Bhatti confirmed the inevitable.