Pro Evolution Soccer 2019 (PS4)

The gameplay is brilliant, no other football game has come this close to replicating the moves and goals you would see in a real football match. The animations enhance the realism and I often watch the instant replays to admire the graphics on show and the impressive ball physics. Gameplay is fluid and you genuinely feel anything can happen in a match like the old days of PES. The PES fan community do a great job of uploading authentic looking kits for Premier League, La Liga and Bundesliga teams etc and it’s easy to download the option file and import on your PS4. So lack of licenses is becoming less of an issue.The main weaknesses in this years edition are a lack of variation in AI attacking when playing the CPU, they tend to construct most of their attacks on the wings and love a low cross. They also hardly ever shoot outside of the box. I hope they will patch this soon. And I find the Top Player difficulty produces better gameplay than Superstar as the CPU scripting is so much more apparent when playing on Superstar, a similar issue in last years game.Commentary is still so stale, so I just turn it off now. Would have liked to see new player faces though guess there will be more in the next data pack release. Only a few players, Salah/Martial etc have had face updates but most faces are the same as last year.Graphically this is the best PES that’s been released. Pitches actually look real finally and in HDR the shadows on the pitch look really impressive.All in all then, love this game especially when playing on Top Player. After a week of playing this game, already scored some magical goals and the gameplay is so realistic. Finally the King is back

To put this short I am no massive football enthusiast by any stretch, I am one of those football game players that likes to play kick off or start Master League as a team then slowly build on that team winning the league through a season. When I first started to play football games on the new systems I was impressed but over the last couple of years the FIFA franchise has become very dry and with ultimate team being the main focus I lost all interest in football games altogether.I wanted something more real, a football game that flows and mechanically plays well but looks real.Since playing FIFA 2011 this is the first football game I have played where I have been blown away by its overall mechanics to actually play, look and feel like ACTUAL football.I was blown away by its realism and how tactically sound you could be with your passes. The general flow of the game and the ball physics boy don't get me started. When you hit a thunderous ball in to the back of the net you really feel the power behind the football and it feels so so good.Oh and this is the part where your probably thinking, "oh but Alex the game is missing all of the licensing". Well you would be right, but... There's a little website call PES UNIVERSE where you can sign up for all the real kits then download it on to a USB stick then transfer them to your PS4 save file and BOOM, you have all the real kits in glorious HD.Honestly I really can't say more about this game as like I said I'm no massive football player seeking all the updates in all of the online and offline modes and don't get me wrong I love football but if your looking for the best football game in the last 5 years and want to play against your mates or on your own I cannot recommend this more.Best football game in years you won't be disappointed.

I usually buy Fifa but decided to hold off on buying it and bought this instead. I used to play PES as a kid but switched to Fifa in my teens but after seeing some gameplay I figured I'd try PES again. Glad I did. Gameplay is as smooth as butter. It just doesn't have the looks of Fifa or the official bells and whistles. My only negative is that like most Japanese games it looks a little dated especially in it's menus.

Fifa has an all singing, all dancing jam packed with an immense array of features. It has every league and every player. It has an incredible amount of detail for buying and selling players world wide for online gaming. Millions of other users to interact with. Offline expirience is great too, lots of fun envolving transfers and dealing 2ith players. BUT, if you want to play football the experience ends ubruptly. Very poor and not a patch on Pro Evo. For gamers who want the football to matter, look no further than PES. It's game play on the pitch is where it erns its credentials, superb in comparison.