With the release of the first version Next Gen Xbox 360, which has been monopolizing the developers to view sacrilege practiced including the editing mode, one could doubt that PES6 does not mark major revolution on a PS2 which has already everything she had in her belly. However, Shingo “Seabass” Takaksuta and his team did what it took to get us out a section worthy of the name that offers players a new challenge: learning to defend.
Defend now
History of us out of our routine PES player (or ISS for older fans), the creators had the good aion kinah idea to completely renovate the defensive play. Where IA secretly guided the placement of your rear guard and coordinated in the shade your laundry, you’re now more or less delivered elusive attackers who have a number of cons more favorable than in the previous games.
After a moment of fear when you say that Seabass has recruited its developers in an opium den, comes enlightenment. Ah yes, now it’s “us” to defend! We forget the cleaners in the South Korean, one against one defensive won hands down and tackles so clean it does not.
Each intervention must be thought in the absence of immediate sanction. And once recovered possession, the ball rebound is also more cumbersome, increasing the alternation between periods of domination. Once mastered, this new aspect of the game is overall positive response since the desire for realism of the user. Players are less fixed in their shopping trips and this gives us more freedom. In short, errors that could be attributed to the computer, sometimes rightly, we are now done.
The policy cons
In part-cons, the attackers do not start more like dragsters and lost the address on the firing pin in or out of balance. Taking into account the timing, support and defensive pressure seem to have been accentuated since PES 5 and you’ll often see your keystrokes from a distance in forum or even miss a goal all cooked to six meters. Especially since the sensitivity of the gauge shooting has also increased.
But as fans of big chocolates to worry, you can still put the goals Torsten Frings. They are just harder to make deal to keepers sieves less than the previous version. Too bad cons overly favorable to star players (Ronaldinho, Henry, Messi …) come to undermine these good intentions.
Other game area which tended to s’arcadiser, the free-kick also revives with rigor proper to PES. In the shooting shifted from 40 meters that goalkeeper lobaient - what horrible bug - have been removed. Two, it is now less easy to play virtual Juninho. Another weapon is offered to you, however: the free-kick played quickly. Very useful as we do not pass the ball directly to the opponent.
Overall, the prevalence of individual stocks has been lowered and made to team play becomes more complicated than any wager on the acceleration of a Henry or a Ronaldinho. The balance between realism and fun game is not perfect yet - will be there one day? - PES 6 but significantly recovers the bar after an episode 5, which offered too many goals all cooked. For the rest, it was not until PES 7 and a true Next Gen version to see all the desires of Seabass (particularly with regard to AI) achieved by its developers.
The details that kill
Past these considerations on the animation, we can finally look at all its little details that are crucial in a soft compulsively consumed by many of the players. And this is where we start to pout.
First, licensing, lack of historical PES. This year, Konami gratifies us with the introduction of the “Ligue 1 Orange” (farewell matches Rhone vs. Ile de France) but the passage sacrificed Bundelsiga who is represented by a single club, Bayern Munich, stored among the FC Bruges, and other Gklasgow Rangers FC Copenhagen. Fans of Werder Bremen, for example, will have to spend some time in the editing mode to recreate their favorite team.
For the rest, it remains none the wiser. The regular competitions are held and those who hoped the introduction of the Champions League will be ironed or settling for the International Challenge, the equivalent of playoff World Cup. An interesting game mode and develop that can play games skills by calling the players in better shape before taking a list of 23 players participating in the International Cup (the World Cup).