You can buy player packs with real money, but I’ve always had enough in-game gold to give me a stream of new talent. M圜lub is a decent alternative to FIFA’s Ultimate Team, and I’ve enjoyed filling my squad with star players. Online multiplayer fares better, when it works. PES hasn’t changed enough since last year, and it’s gone backwards in some regards, including the AI. The lack of updates from last year doesn’t help either: there’s a new Master League difficulty mode in which you can get fired from your job, but it’s otherwise the same, as are all the other singleplayer game modes. I’m still enjoying Master League, in which you start with a team of also-rans and slowly build an elite squad, but I’m liking it less than previous years. Often, it’ll instead recycle the ball to the wing for (you guessed it) a low cross.ĬPU defenders sometimes let you dribble to the edge of the box without tackling you (handy, but hardly realistic) and occasionally play a ridiculously deep defensive line, with the centre backs camped inside their own penalty box when the ball is barely at the halfway line.Īll these AI problems make playing singleplayer a pain. Other AI quirks include the CPU never shooting from outside the box and turning down clear runs at goal for no particular reason, even when my defenders have no chance of catching them. You can’t properly jostle an attacker, either, so when a striker is rooted in position and the ball is in the air, it’s practically impossible to win the header. In PES, holding A will take you towards the attacker slowly (you can hold sprint and A to run towards them), and you won’t stop until you win the ball, commit a foul, or watch them skip past you. In FIFA you can decide at what distance to pressure an attacker, and then press a separate button to step in when the time is right. But defending off the ball is less fun, and sometimes not effective because my teammates will simply charge at the ball without any regard for the space around them.ĭefending in general is in desperate need of an overhaul-PES gives you much less control over a defender than FIFA does. To protect against that, I’ll take charge of players off the ball to ensure they mark their man, while holding B on the control pad to send a secondary defender to the ball. When a striker is rooted in position and the ball is in the air, it’s practically impossible to win the header. One-twos cause havoc, and defenders always step up and fail to follow midfielders running into the box. Whenever I’m trying to block a cross out on the wing, the CPU strikers peel off my centre backs with ease, creating space without any effort. Konami says it has improved player positioning, but I don’t see it. On its own it’d annoy me, and I’d want more variety-but it’s made worse by woeful marking by defenders. I’d wager those crosses account for more than half of the goals I’ve conceded.
Offline, the CPU is obsessed with getting to the byline, firing in a low cross and either burying it first time, or laying it off to another player to stick it in the net. The drought of headers is the first sign that some of the changes from last year aren’t welcome, and the same is true for the AI, which is all over the place.
Yes, headed goals were too easy last time, but they were fun, and now they’re almost completely gone. The ball bounces off your head like a balloon, giving the keeper plenty of time to react. I’ve not scored many headers, though-high crosses were dominant in PES 2018, but Konami has gone a bit too far in making them more difficult. I’ve bagged 25-yard screamers, deflected scuffs that trickle into the corner, 1v1s in which I’ve slipped the ball under the keeper’s body, and first-time volleys that curl into the top corner. Combine that with the excellent ball physics and you’ll score all sorts of goals.
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