It plays so smoothly and so responsively that the quality of PES’ onfield action is enough to outweigh its serious shortcomings elsewhere, and just enough to put it past FIFA in my books.įIFA 18, despite some improvements to its own animation (players respond to inputs a bit faster, still lags behind. And they’re just better than they were last year. If you want my tl’dr verdict, that’s it.Ĭontinual improvements to the series’ player animation, coupled with a nice sedate pace and almost perfect ball physics mean that a session with PES 2018 is as close as you can get to lacing up your boots and spending 90 minutes on an actual pitch without actually doing it.Īll the things I love about football - its artistry, its capacity for individual expression, the fluidity with which top-level stars can play the game - can all be found in PES 2018. Sorry if that sounds predictable, since that’s been the case for the last few years, but it’s the case again in 2017.
PES 2018 is the better game this year because it plays a better game of football. So while it’s tempting to spend pages here banging on about the specific ways in which PES 2018’s mastery of the actual sport of football (as it’s played) is unmatched, or just what it is about FIFA that makes it irresistible every year in spite of its glaring flaws, I’m just going to cut to the chase.
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