

I love the officially-licensed stadiums, which drip with atmosphere. The officially-licensed stadiums look brilliant. I mean, just look at Paulo Wanchope, a player who was as likely to smash the ball out of the stadium as he was to backheel it into the goal. And, let's be honest, randomness is a part of real football. The somewhat random nature of the ball, of tackles, of shots and even passes, which can and do go awry, will be a turnoff for some, but amid accusations of scripting and a lack of control that bubble up every now and again in the world of football video games, this sense that you're both in control and out of control at the same time appeals to me. PES 2019 wants you to build up slow, craft an opening and then finish from just inside the box, a Harry Kane arrow, a Ronaldo - old man Ronaldo - one-on-one, a Pippo Inzaghi poach, the result of confusion in the box, a mistake from an under-pressure centre back, a crunching tackle on a dallying DMF that leads to a run and shot on goal.Īnd I love the unpredictability of PES 2019. PES 2019 at its best makes you feel like you're in-form, at the top of your game, and - hey! Look at this goal! Did you see this goal?!įorget the reliable long-shots of FIFA, long-shots that go in so often I am now desensitised to their impact. Not only am I good, you whisper to yourself as the ball nestles into the bottom corner, but I know I'm good. It's that feeling you get when well-placed confidence pays off.


There's something immensely satisfying about taking a shot early.

The early shot, a stab in the dark, a stub into the bottom corner that takes the keeper by surprise, the kind of shot you see in the Premier League but not the Championship because everything about the Premier League is faster and more accurate, is in PES 2019 and I love it. Outside of the boot flicks, for shots, for crosses and for no-look passes, are as effortless in PES 2019 as Romário made them look at the 1994 World Cup. The chip shots - oh, PES 2019's chip shots! - are a joy, a soupçon of Lionel Messi and a smidgen of Davor Šuker. I love the way goalkeepers explode into a dive, flapping at a shot that looks like it's already passed them only for a hand to turn the ball around the post at the last millisecond. Kicking the thing takes more than a button press - it takes a force of will.
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If Konami's development wizards have mastered anything over the course of the 20-odd years they've spent making football video games, it is how to give a virtual football a weight and a presence not just felt on-screen, but in your hands. Unlike FIFA's football, which often feels like the asinine, laser-guided result of some complex equation scrawled onto a sphere on the end of a string or, you know, a pinball in a pinball machine, PES 2019's football has soul.
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