Precise Pass - Combining Real Touch and real ball physics, passing is an art form in PES 2017.
The industry leading Fox Engine again powers the series to reach new heights across the large amount of improvements, and with PES 2017 users will be able to experience real football for the first time in a video game. The immersion in the game presentation and interactive, tactical elements enhance the experience for the player, as the product aims to maximize the fun in playing against any player in every way. This year’s tagline (creation concept) ‘Control Reality’ encapsulates the focus of this year’s product, taking the award winning gameplay to a new level by achieving interactive reality in both control and its new standard of authentic visuals. PES 2017 aims to retain its title of ‘Best Sports Game’ for a third year, as voted across the world at games shows and by major media outlets in 20. If on pitch action is what you value over everything else, then you can’t go wrong with PES 2017, which I would say is the best football game ever made.Pro Evolution Soccer 2017sees the return of the multi-award winning franchise complete with an abundance of new features and quality improvements. The on pitch gameplay is so close to perfect that it is a struggle to imagine how they can beat it next year, while Master League and the online offerings will give you enough gameplay variation to keep you occupied for the next twelve months. These are just minor issues with what is easily the best PES ever.
Seemingly the only way to stop his never ending on the spot sprint is to make a substitution or else restart the match. There is also one frustrating bug that has popped up a couple of times where, after running after a ball that has gone out of play, a player gets stuck behind the advertising boards and is unable to return to take a throw in. Load times are a little longer than what you would hope for and the menus, while somewhat improved, are still a bit of a chore to navigate. There are a few issues in PES 2017, although fortunately almost all of them are off the pitch. There is more than enough to keep you entertained across the year, but a few new big ideas would have been nice. M圜lub is also back to give you the Ultimate Team style game mode, but even fewer changes make it almost a moot point. The depth that you expect from this mode is ever present but not all that much has changed. Once you have the hang of things graduating to the excellent Master League will allow you to take managerial control of one of the teams while also still playing every match. Off the pitch the PES 2017 modes remain largely the same, with the standard exhibition and online play options being easy go to choices to start with.
Not every game is going to be a seven goal thriller, and that is okay, because each match has its own story, and chances are you will remember a lot of them for some time. While a boring 0-0 will happen from time to time, as you would expect, most games will feature at least a couple of big talking points, whether that be a dubious penalty decision or the finest goal you have ever seen. While this isn’t a perfect simulation of football, PES 2017 takes the best bits and makes them pop up often enough to keep things entertaining. The pace is near perfect, the ball moves incredibly naturally, and the AI actually moves into good positions. This all adds up to the on pitch action feeling fantastic. A player may slip and hold themselves up by placing a hand on the ground when changing direction at pace, or when a player goes for an acrobatic overhead kick they will position themselves in the best place to score, instead of locking into one of about three animations for that situation.
More animations have been added, all of which look incredibly realistic. Weirdly, there isn’t one big change that has revolutionised PES this year instead there are many small tweaks. This year with PES 2017 those issues have been ironed out and even more improvements have been made. Referees didn’t seem to know that they had yellow or red cards at their disposal, and the less said about the skill of the keepers the better. The passing was crisp, the AI intelligent, and the on pitch variation interesting, but there were a few serious issues. With last year’s outing, PES was so close to perfection on the field. Consistent gameplay combined with all of the licences you could ever wish for usually make FIFA the more attractive proposition, but this year PES 2017is putting up one hell of a fight, and when on the pitch there is no other game that can even come close to its quality. Every year the two big football games come out, and every year FIFA is the one that the mainstream media ends up talking about.