Keeping a close eye on these updates is crucial to win your virtual soccer match. Players who are in shape (marked with a green arrow up), will last longer on the field, win more duels and eventually score easier. Players who are out of shape, have less stamina and will make a mistake more easily. This also works for players individually. Certain teams can be granted with virtual wings if they win match after match in the real soccer season. Konami will put restrictions on that team so you’ll definitely feel the difference in their skills. If a team scores less than usual, you’ll also notice it in the game. This is a weekly update from launch and Konami will continue the support until the season ends. This means that the good clubs from last soccer season all have been upgraded while teams who scored fewer points in real life, also received a virtual penalty. The only difference? We’re in control of our team so we can’t just lean back and relax.Īll players received an update based on their skills in real life. Now, it looks like we’re preparing for an evening filled with soccer and friends. The developers really put in some effort here since it all looks more realistic than PES 2017. No longer will you see a drawing of the players as a profile picture, this time it comes closer to an actual photo. The first change we noticed appeared during the selection of our players and the way we want them to appear on the screen. As I said earlier, you can easily change the names by downloading a file or entering the names manually. We pick a classic match of Classico FC Barcelona vs. Next, to the club teams, all national teams of Europe, Africa, America and even Asia are open for selection. In this article, we’ll mainly focus on these changes since the core of the game has been strong for years. Since this is the 2018 edition, things have slightly changed.

We won’t discuss the online experience here but if you’ve played PES before, you know you have nothing to worry about.

To be clear, this is only the case for clubs, players kept their real names.įor this review, we’ve played the game in offline mode and tested it without going online. This means it’s possible to play as Real Madrid after you changed the names. Lucky for the true fans, there are files circulating on the internet to overwrite those club names to the original ones.

A lot of club names are different in PES, Real Madrid, for example, is called PES MD White. It’s a fact that PES pulled the short straw when it comes to licenses. The only thing they do have in common is the fact that both games are all about soccer (or football in Europe, which is simply a better name). There’s no goal in comparing those two titles since both are simply too different. In this review, we’ll leave the discussion of PES vs.

Pes 2018 classic players