is on October 25 began the seventh season of the PES series (Pro Evolution Soccer). Indeed, the simulation football video game of the Japanese company Konami has made its appearance on our screens in 2001 knocking the monopoly hitherto purring the title of FIFA's flagship U.S. giant Electronic Arts. The success of PES is such that for two years this game has even become the first French cultural property in terms of market value. Nothing too surprising given that today the turnover of the game industry has surpassed that of film and that football remains the most popular sport of our planet. If all gamers in general and football in particular are waiting anxiously every year in late October to acquire the new version of the ultimate simulation created by the legendary Shingo Takatsuka (known Seabass) must admit that this season's disappointment is the height of waiting. So much so that a previously unthinkable question arises out of PES 2008 on next generation consoles, saying she mark the beginning of the end of a beautiful hit series?
Season 1: Revolution
Konami decides to celebrate the coming of humanity in the 21st century by transforming the small world of videogame football dominated hitherto unchallenged by the invincible King Cup. His first public hello to rename the series "International Superstar Soccer "to" Pro Evolution Soccer. " This symbolic change of name induces primarily the advent of a radical change in the gaming experience offered to fans of fantasy football. In fact the gameplay of PES is much more oriented simulation than its rival FIFA resolutely oriented arcade. Despite the lack of official licenses, comments tasteless and repetitive use of original names for the players, the realism of the game, the quality of artificial intelligence, excellence of its graphics are very fast in this first edition PES new standard for connoisseurs of football video game.
Season 2: confirmation
For the second season, Konami slightly changes the gameplay of its simulation to accentuate even more realism for players where a slight adjustment period necessary to achieve control of all changes and return to their feelings. PES 2 marks the arrival of some officially licensed international teams and club teams. But the real novelty is the training mode which helps improve his technique by working on specific phases of the game such as dribbling, kick, etc. ... The graphics, meanwhile, are always up. Attitudes and characteristics Physical most famous players are particularly well rendered. The sonic atmosphere, besides the beautiful intro with the "We Will Rock You" by Queen, enhances immersion with songs including fan well done. However, match commentaries Remy Guard and Cyril Linette is too recurrent and inappropriate they quickly become tiresome, if not more ...
Season 3: near perfection
Echoing the qualities of its predecessor, PES 3 is a continuation of the series: even more beautiful graphics, including modeling of players much more accurate. The animations are not left with the appearance of new gestures, such as the famous Roulette Marseillaise de Zizou. The replays are much more numerous, as the number of stages available. Among the only things that annoy, note also the comments just as bad this time with Cyril Linette Stephane Guivarc'h. In terms of gameplay, the developers have done wonders again: the defenses are being repositioned instantly rebouchent gaps, and press the opponent consistently; guards on them are significantly more agile and have new animations allowing them to divert even more shots. When the ball, the game is extremely fluid. The difficulty mark is that it should always be placed correctly in relation to the opposing goal, to get the best result possible. Thus, realism is still present in this game which is also nice to look at practice. So much so that we can legitimately say that season 3 of PES near perfection.
Season 4: Connecting
Season 4 of PES, meanwhile, offers an undeniably superb gameplay allowing collective actions really enjoyable. Among the many innovations of this new title, besides the presence of a referee on the field, most noticeable new player animations, a particularly comprehensive training mode, and player profiles ever more detailed. But the great revolution of this album comes primarily from its on-line mode, option to play via an Internet connection, with players from around the world. Nevertheless, some small bugs spoil a little fun, such as lobs from 18 meters to returning any shots or passes behind that mark every time. Network, some "small players" based solely on their game these two actions which eventually becomes a bit irritating to their opponents. Apart from that disappointment always come from the absence of certain licenses and disastrous reviews of the new doublet Christian Jean-Pierre, Jean-Luc Arribart. Apart from these slight imperfections, however pes 4 contains nearly everything a virtual footballer can dream.
Season 5: updating
with 70 officially licensed leagues including English, Italian, Dutch and many top teams and PES 5 gradually fills the delay at this level for rival FIFA. But once the joystick in hand, the regulars soon find themselves confused by arbitration whistling a lot more mistakes and giving the impression quickly annoying to attend a match completely "chopped". Apart from this problem of arbitration, the gameplay has again been revised upwards with a range of technical moves to larger and larger. Once in front of goal, the great variety of shots and situations not recurrence of similar goals. Graphically, the game has not changed much even if the big names in world football are relatively well modeled. The fans meanwhile are sidelined if not completely neglected. The comments of Jean-Pierre Christian and Jean-Luc Arribard them are so shocking that we want to quickly cut their whistle. After a little practice, play PES 5 is fast becoming a pure pleasure. The great variety of phases of play make each goal scored wins and savoring.
Season 6: passion
With incredible feel that PES 6 provides users, they are no longer just video game players, they carry almost their dream of becoming, being or having was once a professional footballer. For this sixth season most of the work Konami has once again focused on the playability of the title. From this perspective, the goal is more than achieved. Not even virtual sensations were as close to reality. Controls, strikes, movements seem straight out of a real football game. What a pleasure to have the opportunity to rewrite history by giving Zidane and his teammates a great win 2 goals to 1 in overtime against Italy's final World Cup 2006! Only downsides to this wonderful album: the soundscape just passable, the lack of licenses for the championship of England and the simple disappearance of the German Bundesliga. Also note the disastrous debut system network game on PC that took several weeks to work properly and provide the opportunity to play wonderful games to two against two as well as many tournaments every day to the delight of all lovers.
Season 7: disappointment
risk when one has long dominated the competition is too easy to rest on its laurels. The seventh season of PES is a perfect illustration. Development teams from Konami have not taken the measure of necessity imposed by the passage of a development environment that fully controlled PS2 totally unknown to the so-called new generation consoles. The choice of an orientation anymore arcade simulation, animation caricatured players, graphics well below those of FIFA 08 and a game mode network completely catastrophic for now make PES 2008 a true die heart for all fans of the series. From the first part we see that the attackers have become real powerhouses face defenses placement sometimes incomprehensible. If one adds to this a game speed too high, the invalidity of filth goalkeepers and incomprehensible number of goals scored against his camp, it is not uncommon to finish games with real football scores. It is far from the recipe that made the success of PES is the need to build a game technically licked to score goals in the sweat of his brow and its controller. Only improvement, that of the physical behavior of the ball that sometimes tu perfection. Side comments, despite the arrival of Laurent Paganelli alongside Christian Jeanpierre, there remains no change in anything big.
Fortunately the lucky PC owners will benefit from improvements created by the fans themselves, in the form of patches. The best known is called patcher "Overall Crash." It is a passionate volunteer each year thanks to his skills as a programmer, hard work and a few others managed to fill gaps as pes recurring licensing official, the soundscape or even update the numbers of different teams. Unfortunately for PES 2008 can not do anything regarding the gameplay ... To wait until the arrival of the next PES 2009, all true fans of the series will no doubt fall back on PES 6 improved with version 2.40 Patch "Overall Crash" whose output is expected shortly. If
Seabass, who himself acknowledges that he missed time this year to release an album entirely successful, can not next season to correct the major pitfalls of this PES 2008, he took the risk of losing its Konami title of world champion of football games and to encourage the return on the throne of his hereditary enemy the former King Cup.
And yet, it started well ...
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