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Just vine ‘PES 2016’ for all manner of nonsense. Showstopping, highlight-reel goals, passes, saves and flicks are not just possible, but indeed semi-regular. Marketing bollocks it may sound, but the ‘Player ID’ system does make participants move and act like their real-life counterparts – Robben running with elbows jutting and pumping like mad pistons Ronaldo’s feet pecking and setting and crashing shots into the bottom corner, like an insane nuclear-tanned Topshop mannequin come to life. There are still moments of pure, individual player brilliance, of course: chopping runs and long-range strikes, drag-back nutmegs and overhead kicks. PES 2016, more so than any other football game I’ve ever played, adheres to the same principals. Between arguing with journalists, arguing with players, arguing with the FA, and arguing with the concept of time itself (probably), he remained determined that the team, not the player, was bigger than anything. Anyway, whether through age, injury or, er, book-writing, over the years players were shipped out and replaced while keeping the ideals of the side intact. Not all of his squads were so great: he also signed Kleberson and Bebe, both of whom should have been returned under trading standards practices. It is commonly agreed that Sir Alex Ferguson – angry, a genius, fond of a drink, Scottish, for those of you not familiar – built three great teams while he was at the helm of Manchester United: the 94, 99, and 08 sides were genuinely world-class. But even if they aren’t, it still plays a phenomenal game of football. The squads will be fixed, and hopefully the multiplayer netcode brought up to speed. It’s also the best two-player co-op PES since 2013, and may even eclipse it in that regard when all’s said and done. It’s not unplayable, but there’s enough latency issues to disrupt things.ĭespite these missteps, PES 2016 is still superb, matching immediacy with depth, a football game which can be enjoyed by those who despise the sport. (Well, until you come up against someone with a half-decent free-kick taker in their side: given the poor quality of the starting keepers, anything close to goal is usually in.) It’s a shame that the netcode isn’t more stable, with long waits to connect to players and near ever-present lag threatening to trip the whole thing up. Learning to adapt to a team which is, initially, terrible, is satisfying, and there’s a good sense of progression to the thing. There is a definite thrill in spinning the wheel of fortune when attempting to get better players, with the mode functioning almost as the natural heir to the old Master League default teams setup (which is still in there). It wasn’t possible to test M圜lub at the time of review, but after having tinkered around with it for a while it seems like a fun (if sometimes frustrating) alternative to FIFA Ultimate Team.

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Regardless, those issues will be solved, and indeed already have been, for the online portion of the game and some offline modes. (Not that this absolves Konami, of course.)

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Especially given that the Full Kit Wanker brigade simply can’t accept anything other than Sky Sports on a disc. It still is, of course, but that such a basic error has occurred is beyond frustrating. It’s a huge blunder from Konami considering all the goodwill generated in the run up to PES’s launch, especially when reviews (such as this one) are saying it’s the best football game since people started making them. This, understandably, has not gone over well. It’s been two weeks since PES launched, and what was a joyous celebration of the arrival of the greatest football game of all time has been soured somewhat since the revelation that squads, for offline players at least, would not be fully updated (i.e playable in all modes) until October 29th.