It’s an Adebayo Akinfenwa-sized immersion-killer. Despite Konami having the Euro 2016 license, jump into PES 2016 right now for a match as England and the default starting line-up includes Luke Shaw, Fabian Delph, Jonjo Shelvey and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, none of whom travelled to the tournament. Pro Evo does international football much better than FIFA – witness the entertaining highlights of Burkina Faso vs Lebanon in the video below – but with one caveat (okay, two if you include the inevitable kit issues): line-ups never get updated. (Euro 2016 finalists Albania, Croatia, Iceland, Slovakia and Ukraine were all missing last year.) Real kits for every such team are a must, too: it's plain weird to select, say, Belgium and Portugal only to have Eden Hazard and Cristiano Ronaldo trying to outdo one another in strips that’d be laughed at on Wandsworth Common of a Sunday morning. The FIFA series has always made club football its focus, but with international management now a major element of career mode, it’s time the list of national teams was expanded beyond FIFA 16’s 48 sides. And it needs to work at all levels: start a career mode in League Two in FIFA 16 and you’ll abandon the idea within an hour, as every opponent attempts to pass you off the pitch. Modern tech should be capable of implementing unique team styles: Leicester being organised and trying to ship the ball to Mahrez and Vardy as fast as possible Tottenham neatly working possession until Harry Kane shoots on sight Burnley, Hull and Sunderland playing an attritional, conservative game but pouring forwards at set-pieces. Yet in FIFA 16, every team from Barca to Boston United attempts to play the same type of glue-footed, incisive football, dampening longevity in the process. Whether that transfers to lesser netminders remains to be seen, but it’s a promising sign.īarcelona’s success in recent years feels particularly special because no-one has been able to properly emulate their patient but effective brand of tiki-taka. Thankfully, we played PES 2017 at the start of August and found Hugo Lloris and Manuel Neuer in imperious form, with a flood of new animations improving their decision-making skills and overall shot-stopping ability.

In 20 years, Konami has never got the balance right between spectacular fingertip stops and nonsensical six-yard box spills. Clone a hybrid of David James, Rob Green and Brad Guzan at their most calamitous and you seemingly have every PES keeper ever.

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