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He has since been replaced by Mario Götze for 2015, then he was replaced by Neymar and Álvaro Morata for 2016.Īs of December 2011, the Pro Evolution Soccer franchise has been localized into 19 languages and available in 62 countries. As such, team jerseys, names, and players may be inaccurate.Ĭristiano Ronaldo was the face of the franchise, appearing on the front cover from 2012 to 2013. Partially as a result of EA Sports ' affinity to purchasing exclusive rights for their FIFA series, the games have historically lacked the sheer volume of licenses present in EA's offerings, with the most notable absences being the Premier League and Bundesliga. The Japanese version is a localized version that features local leagues. Goodnight sweet prince, and thanks for the memories.Every year, the game is released around late September and/or early October with two different titles: World Soccer: Winning Eleven in Japan & Asia, and Pro Evolution Soccer in Europe, North America & Asia (Indonesia only).
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But for me, Pro Evolution Soccer is the best series of football games there ever was-and I can't see it go without a tear in my eye. If this series is to live, maybe it does need a new start, a new identity, and a new approach. So you can't say Konami has made the wrong decision. He told me with enormous sadness that for every copy of PES they sold, there would be fifty FIFAs. As we were both football fans the PES/FIFA thing came up and he was a PES-liker. Around the time of FIFA 11 or 12 I interviewed the manager of a local games store about other subjects. You could see FIFA slowly asphyxiating PES over the last decade. Once PES wasn't objectively the better game, it moved from being a small-but-healthy competitor to an also-ran. Modern FIFA is excellent, has been since roughly FIFA 10, and is one of the industry's commercial juggernauts. And when PES started to experience its own wobbles, FIFA was getting its house in order. PES always had an uphill challenge with FIFA though, and even when EA's games weren't all that good the branding ensured they still sold. Pro Evo 3 will always be the best football game, simply because its cover art featured the bug-eyed and terrifying Italian referee Pierluigi Collina rather than some fancypants Real Madrid striker.
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Over the next decade the series truly blossomed as Pro Evolution Soccer, with a particular golden age on PS2 (Pro Evolution Soccer 3 is a 10/10 and that's a fact) that coincided with EA and FIFA losing its way. In the late 90s, ISS and particularly ISS Deluxe were simply the best, and had enormous character in their unofficial takes on the footballing greats: I'll never forget those pixel-art recreations of Roberto Baggio ('Galfano'!) and Fabrizio Ravanelli, nor the gorgeous feel and pace of those games. The decline of PES or Pro Evo has been so tough to watch. I hope eFootball works out for Konami, and I hope it's fantastic. You will, however, be able to customise and share teams as PES has always allowed. There's also what looks like a battle pass called a match pass, but no mention of series features like M圜lub (PES's FIFA Ultimate Team) or the career mode yet.
The roadmap shows there'll be 9 clubs to play as in exhibition matches, with other modes arriving later and presumably as paid-for DLC. The platform approach means eFootball will just be constantly updated rather than having new versions, with larger updates happening simultaneously with the start of major football seasons and tournaments.Īt launch, however, eFootball looks like it'll be a little sparse. Notable is that Konami has abandoned its own in-house FOX engine for eFootball, which is clearly capable of producing magnificent games but feels like it's been somewhat under-utilised.