For many years I have been a fan of the Pro Evolution Soccer series (I got given Iss Pro Evolution 2 on Ps1 when it first came out), preffering it over its closest rival, the Fifa series, for its greater realism. It is important to point out that although not all of Pro Evolution Soccer 2011's teams are fully licensed (meaning some of the teams, although resembling their real life counterparts, have fictitious names, whereas Fifa 2011's teams are all licensed, meaning every team has its proper name) in my opinion graphically and gameplay wise it is closer to real life than Fifa 2011. I felt that on the Ps2 the Pro Evolution Soccer series far outstripped any offering ...  Read the complete review

The debate between Fifa v Pro Evo is very common and not one that im going to attempt to answer in this review. However, as traditionally a fan of fifa, this game came close to converting me. Gameplay Pro Evo's game play for me, is actually far more realistic than Fifa. Pro Evo 11 is more difficult, passing is hard to perfect, shooting and finishing are manageable but still difficult. However, in this case i truly believe difficult is good. By being more difficult, pro evo is more realistic. High scoring games that are a regular occurring on fifa are far less common. Some might say this is the problem with pro evo, but i believe that pro evo is a ...  Read the complete review

I still dont understand the whole Fifa v Pro evo debate , Fifa is in not in any way , shape or form a bad game but the graphics , the gameplay, the realism, the whole overall experience of Pro evo is far superior , the last few in the series were basicly the same game with small updates but 2011 is just a way for Konami to start showing off . Alot of my friends still prefer Fifa but i cant understand why, its got such a stiff robotic feel to it where as in Pro evo its such a flowing game , the last time i played Fifa i scored 5 goals all with overhead bicycle kicks , all in the same game and all with peter crouch and all i could think was this would never happen in real  Read the complete review

Pro Evolution Soccer has for a number of years now been the main challenger to Fifa for the football game market on the consoles and in many peoples opinions has become an extremely good game on its own merit but what does PES 2011 deliver? The Pro Evolution Soccer games have long been about excellent controls to make it more realistic than Fifa as you need to work hard and often slowly with your build up play to create chances which you are by no means guaranteed to take but following on from feedback to Konami that the game felt too slow the all new version for this year delivers a much improved control system which allows for excellent build up play and ...  Read the complete review

Once again the old school favourite delivers. I have been playing this game since it first came out while I was at uni, and it still leads the football gaming genre with the quality of its graphics, realism of play and host of different venue/team/competition/player options. My favourite tournament to play is the Champions League - when the music starts, theres the close up of the players in the tunnel, and then Jon Champion and Jim Beglin start to commentate, you're transported back to the many tuesday and wednesday nights where you've come home from work for a night in watching the footie! As with all versions of Pro-Evo, its very easy to control the players, and ...  Read the complete review