You can let a manager take control of your team, who may select the starting XI on form rather than the default line-up, or, as per the traditional PES route, you can customise the team yourself using either complex, or simple settings. Every detail of a match plan can now be pre-planned, with tactics even customisable in 15-minute blocks dependent on whether you're winning, drawing or losing. The tactics and manager side has seen a huge redesign, which some PES purists will possibly see as unneeded. However, it also means that, finally, you'll be able to get a decent clearance from the back, and put the ball to safety - rather than simply teeing up an onrushing midfielder 30-yards out - an aspect that PES has always sorely lacked. This is more realistic, but it does mean that it's harder to assess just how long to hold the long-pass button for a cross-field ball. As a result of the pass-reinvention, through balls are back to their PES best, with defence splitting passes now being the reward of any player who can master this aspect to the game.Īnother big difference, with the onus being on the word big, is that players can now kick the ball much further and much harder. No longer will a quick tap of the pass button find an unmarked team-mate, you'll now have to aim and judge pass lengths yourself, which is made a tad easier using the new power-gauge (which also comes in handy for shooting, which has improved, but isn't greatly different). If you're confused as to what this means, then let us put it in simpler terms - the passing is now much harder.īut, once you begin to tame it, you come to realise that it is vastly improved. What will take you a bit longer to get used to is PES 2011's new “total control” which means an “enhanced 360-degree passing ratio”. You get a nice side on view, a la Sky Sports' football coverage for kick off, and the pitch looks decidedly skew-whiff for corners and goal-kicks, but you'll soon get used to this. The first change you will notice is that the camera angles used for the default setting are a bit weird. And, whisper this quietly, not the poor PES variations of the last couple of years, but the brilliant PES of 20. Once you've settled into it though (and cranked the match speed up to +1), you will begin to appreciate the differences and realise that the familiar PES is lurking there, underneath. The first few matches you play will lead you into believing that you've wandered out of Konami's game and into another - it really does appear that different. And PES 2011 doesn't disappoint when it comes to gameplay. Sure, these are nice touches, but when you're playing your mates, or some random kid halfway across the world via the online option, all you really care about is that the game plays out in a realistic manner. The reason that FIFA is now seen as the top title is that EA started to focus on gameplay rather than just having all the official kits and the best animations.
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We'll start with gameplay because this is undoubtedly the most crucial aspect of a football sim.