Defending, too, works better, with improved control of slide tackles (and better refereeing to accompany them) and fewer moments where a team-mate's poor AI leaves you exposed. Kinks in goalkeeping AI and animations have been completely ironed out, with better positions being taken up between the sticks and far fewer shots flying, seemingly unopposed, into the bottom corner (by far PES 2016's most common kind of goal).
The ball physics, too, seems to have been slightly tweaked, with crosses now more likely to hang in the air, just waiting to be attacked with a bullet header, and snap volleys arrowing at goal at a tremendous pace. Player movement is a little slower and heavier-feeling, granting greater control and making you think more about body positions as you move across the pitch. It's the cumulative effect of a raft of small improvements, rather than any one new feature, that have contributed to finding this golden mean.
For next year's game, Konami hopes to bag the official license for Jamie Vardy's lookalike. At last, we might have a rejoinder to those who claim football games peaked in 2006. There's a sheer pleasure in tackling the game and its challenges that's simply been lacking from this generation of releases. That "one extra match" feeling comes about not because you want coins, or because you want to improve your ranking. This balance - between attack and defence, between speed and precision, between arcade and sim - makes playing matches a joy.
Receiving the ball and turning in one movement, or spotting an overlapping fullback and releasing the perfect through ball, everything just feels, well, right.
The PC build is not reviewed here, and is a very different story.)
(This is as long as you're playing on PS4 and Xbox One. For the first time in years, here's a football game that feels like a direct improvement on its predecessor in almost every way. It's partly this paranoia which explains why PES 2017 feels like such a breath of fresh air.
If key parts of the game work less well in 2016 than they did in 2010, what faith can we have that the series is really getting any better? While the game was universally well-received, its flaws - such as lenient referees and dodgy 'keepers - hadn't been apparent in its predecessors. (I have a theory about the most talented developers not being interested in sports - but we'll save that for another time.) In what other iterative releases are the core mechanics in such a state of constant flux? One year it's too easy to score, another too hard. One year the game might feel too slow, the next too fast.
Last year, EA paid him $600,000 in a settlement of that lawsuit.What is it about football games? While fans of other genres can expect not just consistent output but steady improvement from their favourite series, those of us to whom pressing X means pass rather than jump have long known it's best to approach our major releases with trepidation. In a similar case, NFL legend Jim Brown sued Madden NFL publisher Electronic Arts in 2008 over the company’s practice of putting all-time great football teams - including Brown’s 1964 Cleveland Browns - in the Madden games. El Eco reports that the money will go toward efforts to support amateur sports throughout Argentina, including the construction of soccer fields. Maradona and other soccer greats, both past and present, are available in M圜lub, the franchise mode in PES 2017.Īs for the money that Konami will pay to Maradona, the footballer previously pledged to donate the funds. He posted a screenshot of himself in the game on his official Facebook page, along with a note saying that his attorney would “initiate the corresponding legal actions” against Konami. PES 2017 was released in September 2016, but it appears that Maradona only caught wind of his appearance in the game in late March. It’s clear that Konami took the legal threat seriously - Takayuki Kubo, the president of the company’s gaming division, flew to Argentina himself last week to work with Maradona and his attorneys on a resolution, according to El Eco. D’Alessandro traveled to Miami last month for research to build their case, where he obtained “at least two records of athletes affected by using their image against their will,” he told El Eco.
Maradona had enlisted his own lawyer, Matias Morla, and another attorney named Mauricio D’Alessandro to work on figuring out how to proceed against Konami. Diego Maradona alleges Konami put him in PES 2017 without permission (update)