The animation is made to serve the gameplay, rather than the other way around, and dribbling is precise but not so much that it makes keeping possession too easy. By comparison, PES 2017’s passing and shooting is far more accurate and versatile than FIFA 17.
The passing also seems more unreliable, and the overly showy animations can mean a frustrating lag between you moving the controller and your player responding.Įven the ability to shield the ball from defenders works against it, unbalancing the defensive game. But in trying to address complaints with FIFA 16, it now plays a little too fast instead of a little too slow.
In truth, this time neither game has changed very much from last year’s version, with FIFA 17 focusing more on its graphics and the introduction of The Journey. It’s not that FIFA is terrible, it hasn’t been that for almost a decade now, but it lacks the balance, precision, and sheer fun of its lower budget rival. The odd thing about this category, is that even most FIFA fans would grudgingly admit that PES 2017 plays a better, more enjoyable game of football than FIFA 17. PES 2017 still manages okay, but it’s another sign that it doesn’t have the same amount of money behind it as FIFA. The final part of the puzzle is online multiplayer, and here again FIFA has the advantage in terms of reliability, options, and a bigger pool of players to ensure you can get a game almost any time of day. PES does have an equivalent in m圜lub, but it’s nowhere near as involved or addictive – with only a minor improvement this year.
PES has nothing to compare, and given how expensive The Journey looks to have been to make probably never will.įIFA 17’s other big draw is FIFA Ultimate Team, the modern day equivalent to collecting Panini stickers. It’s a bit cheesy at times but earnest enough to get any football fan a bit emotional when you start doing well. The Journey is where the new graphics really shine, as you take a fictional young player from obscurity to the top flight. Not only does it have its own equivalent career mode but one of this year’s major new features is The Journey story mode. But while it’s still fun it hasn’t kept up with modern trends and FIFA 17 offers a much wider range of options. As well as reliable online options, and something meaningful to play on your own.Īs unlikely as it may seem now, back in the PlayStation 2 era this used to be an area where PES dominated, thanks to its famous Master League career mode. You need structure and context, like leagues and competitions. Even the best game is going to get old if all you’re doing is playing one-off matches again and again. The next most important thing for any football game to get right is the content. Quite frankly PES 2017’s menus look like your gran made them, and they’re as awkward, slow, and ugly this year as they’ve ever been. In terms of general presentation – stuff like menus, commentary, and general razzmatazz – FIFA 17 has an even clearer win. This doesn’t work on the Xbox One though, because Microsoft has a promotional deal with EA.
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In PES you can edit the names and details manually if you want though, and on the PlayStation 4 and PC you can download fan-made option files that have everything already done for you. That’s the way it’s always been, but for some people that’s all they care about, no matter what the two games play like. All the official stadia, kits, and player details so that PES just has to make them up or leave them out entirely. Especially as some of PES 2017’s players actually look better than FIFA 17, even if it’s just the ones they have the specific licence for.Īnd licences are what it’s all about, because apart from a select few clubs and the UEFA competitions, FIFA has them all. The lighting and weather effects are better than PES 2017 in close up, but since that’s not how you play the game it actually makes less difference than EA might like to pretend. When it comes to the graphics of the two games it’s a much fairer fight than you might imagine, even though FIFA 17 this year is using the Frostbite engine from the Battlefield games. This in turn is dependent on how realistic the graphics are and the attention to detail in terms of clubs, kits, and players. There’s how the game plays and there’s how much it looks like the real thing, and recreates the atmosphere of a match and the clubs involved. But that can mean a lot of very different things. When people talk about what they want from a football game the first thing they usually say is ‘realism’.
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