PES 2018 (PS4)

I have sat on the fence for the past 2 months over which to buy this year. Whether it would be Fifa or Pes. I have flicked between both games over the years. Last year I went with Fifa, this year after playing both demos and hearing the general feedback (the official fifa forums are full of negative threads) I took the leap and got pes. Definitely a good move. The game seems to flow better, the gameplay seems smoother and generally more enjoyable. The difficulties levels are challenging. Regular/Semi-pro on pes actually gives the com team more actual chances, they will actually try to score (Unlike fifa where they dawdle and dither about doing not very much). Licenses seem to be an issue people have, Option files are easy to install. Had one sorted and running in no time. Gone are the times on ps3 where it would be copy and paste every single item. Now it is select all, import and leave it to do its magic. With an option file sorted pes now looks the part. Graphics wise I was actually blown away. The likeness and realism of most the players, stadiums and even fans in the stadium shows that it is ahead of fifa in this aspect. I mainly play career mode and the master league in pes does well. I like the layout and ease of use while in masterleague. loading times are decent and sorting out transfers, scouting, youth team is fun. It is nice to not have a button lag or delay as experienced on fifa. The one drawback I see is just with the transfer market. Konami could improve on this by making the transfer budget and costs/fees a bit more realistic. Still a little too low. There may be views that the menu layout can be a little dated, but to me it works without any lagging so I cannot complain. The only main downside I can see is the commentary. Still a lot better then it was on the last pes i played (pes 13) but still a bit behind fifa. Nothing which is a deal breaker. Naturally I hear the argument on scripting. Regardless of whether you play fifa or pes, if you are playing on the highest difficulty then there will be scripting in one way or another. I would definitely recommend this years pes to anyone wanting to try it. Obviously it is known there is a learning curve involved in switching (20 odd games will do it) but it is worth it.

Having been someone who buys both pro evo an fifa, ive gotta say, this will be the first year I do not buy fifa. I am someone who enjoys playing online co op with mates, which previously has not been great with pro evo because of the servers etc and difficulties just finding a match. Well that has all been solved this time around. Last night I was playing both 2v2 and 3v3, which was fantastic, no lag, played smooth, and as a bonus for me, we finally have divisions when playing co op... Gameplay is fantastic, super smooth, passing, shooting looks great, animation is fantastic. Every pass, every shot, the way players move with the ball on and off is great. Dribbling is also way improved, can run with the ball at speed, can even meg players which is cool to do. Ball physics too look top notch and are better than ever. I can never understand how people will say fifa is the more realistic game. Could easily gone on and do the comparison to fifa, but there is no point, all I will say is that I believe this is the best football game to date, yes the menus are still poor and the commentary, but that's hardly a major thing, I could go on for longer here, but for anyone that has not even tried pro evo,,if you are a true football fan, you really need to try this. Will be doing the simple upload of the kits too, which is very straight forward, for anyone who has not done it previously.

The reviews and comparisons to Fifa 18 are laughable, considering Fifa 18 is not even out and the comparisons just need to stop. So let’s begin with PES 2018, only. The game itself lacks modes but that’s not a downside to the game, the same goes for online gaming which I honestly don’t care about. Now the gameplay mechanics combined with the A.I.. There is so much potential and the players on the pitch alone are really well designed and the movement is excellent, however the downfall of this game is the predictable play from the computer and lack of A.I. movement of your own uncontrolled defenders. Every team I have played from low, average and high skilled teams all play the same way. General – The chipped through balls out to the wing are far too common, in fact, they happen at least 5 times in a 10 minute match. On top of that the ‘fancy flicks’ are from the type of football you play on the playground. It’s fun but when the low skilled players can do skilful moves with fancy flicks and back-heels it’s gets not only repetitive you spend half of your time falling for it on every occasion. Again this may be down to the flaws not in the gameplay but in the tactical system setups that Konami have setup. Either way its frustrating and too predictable for long term playing. The one touch football is great to look at so it can be easy to keep ball but when the CPU has the ball the one touch system is overdone. At times the CPU could arguably play the one touch football for the entire game, far too predictable. Goalkeepers – the movement in the box is fair and unpredictable, which is a good thing but the “shooting shots straight at the goalie where they make a hash of it” again happens far too often and are pretty much giveaway goals due to no fault of your own. The one-on-ones are hard to analyse because it seems that 99% the players gets to the ball before the goalie gets there and you also find that they even come out for a through ball without you even pressing the button. Going forward the goalies have approved from previous PES games, there’s no question about it but the flaws take away the fun and frustrate you as a player but these are things which should have been solved in earlier PES games. Defending – apart from being penalised for mistakes or being able to make last ditch challenges two downsides – is the occasional hazard of the players falling over your slide 2 seconds after you made the challenge which can result in a yellow or red card which is harsh. I don’t see an easy fix for it from the developers because sometimes players can make mistakes. The other downside is when the CPU determines positioning and attempting to block shots in and outside of the box. You feel you need to do everything, if you have world class defenders you shouldn’t have to pick the player, move to position them in front the attacker player and make the block. Its the 2018 game and this should already been built into the game. Attacking – just like with any football game the attacking playing is pleasing, looking at the earlier comments I made in reference to the fancy flicks and back-heels its fun when it happens for you but frustrating when a low skill opposition outclass you with this. The crossing and movement of the attackers is good to see where some instances the attacker moves to the near or far post. Through balls can be extremely advantageous and a good tool to use to push the opposition back into the box. The only criticism is the easy use of the chip through ball whether it be to the wing or through the middle – it’s too easy whether its you the player or the CPU. Corners – Not much to criticise, in fact, it’s one of the much improved areas from past PES games. Movement of players will make sure you are on your toes with the mix of options when it comes to Man-to-Man or Zonal marking in addition allowing you to get players to make runs or allowing you to move a player in the box before the ball is crossed. From the dead ball situation you can vary the height with a high lofted cross or flat driven ball so its ‘fizzed in’ keeping your opponent guessing. Going forward its a step in the right direction, there are too many getting excited too quickly. Wondering why the transfers were not up to date but you can make the big name changes easily. The licensing is also known to be an issue but with the edit mode and USB transfer you can easily get this fixed so its’ not a downside to the game. 3/5 – Good footy game but many flaws. Controlling players is a positive and how they pass, cross or take shots is varied from player to player so the potential in gameplay is there but needs work on teamwork and tactical setups for 2019 and beyond.

OK let's kick this off, not an avid reviewer but feel this edition earns one. Like someone else commented, I did own every FIFA (from 94-95) up until last year when I simply got bored of the game and lack of intuitive progress that was being made year on year - helped by PSN offering PES 17 for £7.99. So I took the plunge.. and was pleasantly surprised having batted off others saying PES is better than FIFA for some time based on my only experience of the series back in 2005? (When I genuinely wasn't impressed with PES!) Goes to show.. eh!? Side loading kits, names etc was easy via USB.. no problems there - away I went. Thoroughly enjoyed every game, much more fluidity to the gameplay, animations were better and gameplay, goal scoring etc felt impressive so all in all I pre-ordered 18 with great expectations and... It has delivered..! Exceeded my expectations actually. I have found this one to be even more fluid, players like Neymar, Griezmann etc connect with the ball and weave in and out much more lifelike than before which makes gameplay satisfying. Obviously not all about 'hogging' so other aspects of the game were explored, 1-2's, defending, tracking, lay offs, through balls.. all very satisfying and enjoyable to play. To add, I tried the FIFA 18 demo to see if I was missing anything.. and I lasted half a demo game before deleting it. Nothing has evolved in the last year, or years for that matter! If anything it has slowed down even more, and became even more frustrating and I'm all for tactical play but FIFA really needs to address the direction it's going in. Obviously eye candy will appeal to most; not wanting to go to the effort of side loading and I am the first advocate for real stadia etc but not at the expense (any more) of gameplay and actually satisfaction of winning a tournament/being an underdog and beating a bigger team. Worth noting I am a career man!

The FIFA vs pes debate has been done to death so I won't bore you with gameplay and graphics , Instead let me compare them to your high school girlfriend, FIFA is the girl with the designer clothes she is in top set for maths and never has a hair out of place, she hangs around with the popular kids and never puts a foot wrong, but she's never taking you to the bike sheds , in fact when you pluck up the courage to speak to her you realise up close you have been dazzled by her nice shampoo and her well spoken accent, she's about as much fun as dating an accountant in April, Pes on the other hand this year is like the chubby girl who you always had a laugh with but for safety purposes put in the friend zone, but this year your rebelling and don't care what the other kids think, yep pes is already round the back of the bike sheds and she's holding a bottle of vodka and a box of fireworks So what she has the voice of Jim Belglin and that she has a small moustache , she is fun, I'm talking fun like the old days when roberto c used to smash in goals from left back, So it's simple either marry an accountant or go and have the most fun possible on a football game this year And yeh you have to purchase an option file but it's a fiver and let's face it you have a £700 smart phone in your hand and Amazon prime so you can afford it

Got this game on day one release. If like me you only play master league offline you might want to give this a miss. This year ML offers a challenge mode where your chairman sets goals for you to achieve. Nice idea to bring this back and would be even nicer if it worked. I picked Millwall as my starting team using the ( mostly useless ) original players squad on superstar level , ie the toughest challenge available. I was told by the chairman to finish above ninth. ABOVE NINTH ? Starting with the rubbish players ? Forget it, it's impossible. You will struggle to not finish bottom. " That's why it's a challenge" you might say, but the reason lies in the games mechanics as opposed to a lack of skill on the part of the gamer. First of all changing the cursor to the player you want to control is very laggy. Secondly, the keepers are poor. Back to the bad old days of palming shots directly to the opposition striker to tap home. But the real game breaker is the abysmal defending. You can use three different formations in a single match and each formation has three further formations depending on if you are attacking or defending, as well as a custom one. I struggled with this and couldn't, work out why I was losing nearly every game. As it was my first season and I was using an inferior squad to most of the other teams, I set up ultra defensively, parking the bus basically. However, time after time the AI would put one long ball over the top for thier striker to be one one on one with my keeper scoring nine times out of ten. I decided to set all my options, even the attacking ones, to defence. It makes NO difference. Every corner I had my ENTIRE team, bar the goalkeeper, are standing in the penalty area. The defence clear it to thier striker for another one on one. Not one of my defenders in sight. The AI however defend beautifully. You are always up against two lines of four defenders, which is Very hard to get through. In fact, they play exactly how I was telling my team to play. Unbelievably infuriating. Oh, and fouls and free kicks are VERY rarely awarded. As for penalties, forget it, but then again, they've haven't been part of a PES game for years. If Konami fix these problems it could be decent. But it's going to take some patch.

Not a bad game until you start to go up the levels. I’m now on superstar and it’s just no fun whatsoever. The computer just blatantly cheats and if it wants to score you can’t stop it. So after 3 months I’ve stopped playing as it’s too easy on top player.

I have played both FIFA and PES for many years. However one thing is very clear with both of these games FUT and PES myClub are super popular options but only on PES myClub can you realistically get decent players like Messi, Ronaldo, Griezman to name a few very early on and very easily you don't have to play the game day and night, also on PES in myClub online competition you get very valuable reward and can quickly build up a team full of star, this game is much more rewarding and fair without having to depend on an online auction system. In FUT for many players they will never be able to have Ronaldo or Messi because they are so rare and expensive, PES is amazing from that prospective. Now in terms of the actual game play both FIFA 18 and PES 18 are amazing they both have their strengths and weaknesses and regardless of which camp you choose to be in just appreciate it and you will love it. Over all reward, gameplay and graphics I would have to say PES 18 is much better value. I am getting FIFA on my switch because my wife is always on the telly so now I can play in portable form, which PES came out on switch it would be such an amazing game.

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Acquistato usato al prezzo di 40 euro, ma ancora incartato, questa edizione (regno unito) è comunque interamente in italiano, preferite questa a quella in italiano ufficiale. Quest'anno il fox engine si è superato, grafica super reale, unico neo di tutti pes sono le licenze, ma a cui si può rimediare, installando nel gioco una patch, scaricabile su internet, che completa il gioco con tutti i loghi, magliette ufficiali , club di serie b, bundesliga, praticamente tutto!! Consigliato!! Se questa recensione ti è servita, clicca su utile!!

Very cheap and also it met my expectations.

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The game was in perfect condition!