Pro Evolution Soccer Looks To Dethrone Fifa This Year With a Much Better Product

Year after year Fifa has dominated the market when it comes to soccer, or football, games around the world. This year is different though, it looks like a much better game is on the horizon and should give Fifa a run for its money.

Pro Evolution Soccer, or PES for short, has been around for some time. PES has been hanging back in shadows known only by hardcore gamers as the better experience, with controls that are detailed and very complex. A lot of emphasis has always been put on the overly complicated controls that PES has put into its games, while Fifa has catered to a more simplistic control scheme that doesn’t make the gamer feel overwhelmed. I remember the first time I picked up a controller and tried out PES I was confused right away. Simple one two passing took several different combinations of buttons and joysticks as well as precision timing. Most of the time my efforts were in vain to do even the most basic tactic to advance the ball down the field. After a while I found myself playing boom ball and simply kicking the ball down field and running after it. After that experience I wrote off PES as a game that was just trying to hard to be complicated for no real reason. So naturally I turned to Fifa and stayed with Fifa up until this year.

PES 2015 looks like a whole different game compared to Fifa 15. The graphics are the first thing you will notice with a much more detailed pitch and more attention to detail with the players on field. Check out the video below.

You can clearly see the difference between the two games graphically. Here’s the kicker, PES 2015 is promising 1080p at 60FPS on the PS4 which matches Fifa 15.

Now graphics are great and everything, but what about the controls? Thankfully after spending a few hours with the demo and playing countless matches I can safely say that the game is much more approachable now. Gone is the reliance on skill moves to win and now the emphasis is much more on keeping possession and setting up teammates for through balls. Defense plays much better as well since the skill moves don’t hold the same weight, it’s much easier to defend against a single attacker if you are smart about defending the pass lanes and playing containment.

Fifa will still sell more copies, it’s only natural since Fifa is still held in high regard among gamers and it’s what they know. Despite Fifa’s popularity, I hope gamers give PES 2015 a shot, I think Konami did a really good job with making the experience better with smoother controls and much more realistic graphics. PES 2015 is due out November 11 for Sony and Microsoft systems as well as PC.