Demo Impressions: FIFA 10 and PES 2010

This PES is definitely better feeling than the last but is still an arcady feeling game compared with FIFA 10. The movement is jumpy and the pace is quick while FIFA feels more realistic with smooth animations. This will be a case of preference. I scored 3 goals on the PES demo on my first go after a year of FIFA 09 while FIFA 10 made me work harder for my goals. The arcade feel of PES could potentially provide for a more satisfying multiplayer experience but as I said it will be a matter of preference this time around.

What difficulty level are you guys playing on? Seriously??? You telling me you dribbled round the whole French team? BS unless you were playing on dummy difficulty. Jeez, on the lower difficulty settings the AI doesnt even run after you, they just stand there. Ramp it up to top player and tell me that you can take on the whole team and score 3 goals every game. Rant aside, I’m dissapointed with the PES demo, for me they have sacrificed pace and responsiveness for graphical fluidity and a more realistic feel, and I’m not sure I like it one bit. No longer are my dribbles razor sharp affairs of pace and precision, I feel like I have to get rid of the ball as soon as I receive it for fear of being dispossessed. There are a mindboggling array of options to tweak the way your team is supposed to play, but no matter what you do your teammates still stand around and look at you like retards instead of making any decent movement or runs. The graphics have been overhauled and the player faces are great, a milion times better than the generic offerings from FIFA 10. However, the overall graphical feel and polish is still better in FIFA, and I just think that PES should have stuck with what it did best rather than sacrifice its major strengths in order to close the gap visually with FIFA.

As a FIFA fan since 08 (Pro Evo prior to that) i am glad to see Pro has addressed its graphical flaws. The players, lighting etc look very good, better than FIFA by a long shot. However, i think the massive jump FIFA has made since 09 to 10 will be the telling factor this year. FIFA has somehow managed to make small tweaks in almost every area of gameplay to make the matches feel so smooth and realistic. This is an issue Pro Evo still hasn’t addressed and this is why FIFA will again be my game this year. However, i hope Pro Evo takes the gameplay elements of FIFA and implement it into next years game, and FIFA take Pro Evo’s graphical elements and implements it into their 2010 game so that both titles will have made significant progress in the last 2-3 years.

This competition is great and Pro Evo finally making effort will only push the FIFA staff to really improve their game (vice versa). The perfect football game is almost upon us people

I’m sorry. Have people actually played the PES demo? Apart from the feeling that the players are skating across ice. The non existant new A.I, shit goalkeepers. Lego hair styles that make the game look shit, poor animations and stuttering whilst dribbling, crap uncontrolable randomness of header power and crap referees its a fine game. How have Konami let this series slip so badly? They are too busy spending pointless time on this idiots idea for sliders and ability cards that the game play has totally been lost.