PES 2018 TEST - video game

Since 2008, it is customary to say that Pro Evolution Soccer has as a psychological problem that would prevent it from returning to its best level. In spite of obvious bursts of pride, the series of Konami continues to watch its rival to give it grave and to make speak its inventiveness on the virtual ground. But far from wanting to give up arms, PES is approaching the new season at the end of a preparation which could well prove to be paying. Can the balleriners seriously prepare for a mercato?

Weight Evolution Soccer :

The first thing anyone has noticed while keeping company to the two trial versions is confirmed in the final grind: someone has pressed the brake since last year. A slight but still perceptible pressure. And damn cool. PES 2018 is clearly slower than its predecessor, more realistic. There are many reasons for this. The first is the gravity of the 22 actors, who seem more than ever in touch with the lawn. The inertia reworked to assert itself a more realistic - although the laws of gravity apply a little less to well-known aliens like Neymar, Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo, to name only the most famous , one finds oneself with accelerations which, although they retain a certain percussion, are less mortal. Just like the changes of direction with or without ball, which make a little flipper in the first moments where one imagines that a dribble will pass like a letter to the post facing a vis-à-vis that one would not have imagined so precise in his tackle ...

Of course, this is accompanied by better-managed contacts than before. From shoulder to shoulder to collision to bulletproof - automated and clearly successful, but you will have to position yourself - and the aerial duels, well-contested and rigorous, there is a tremendous progress that makes it the right balance was found. The leather is of course not in rest, its trajectories and its rebounds never lending mockery. His physique, which nevertheless remains "arranged" so that certain strikes leave at a spectacular speed, seems impeccable, natural. More free, it causes less ping-pong sequence during some battles a little cluttered. And his relationship to the players is changing, too.

Commercial gesture :

The application of a new physical feature would not have had the same effect if the PES 2017 animations had been made. Konami had the good idea to recast this part almost completely. On the one hand, it greatly improves the rendering of encounters, most gestures being illustrated by a certain class. Then it opens up a whole bunch of possibilities. On the controls, for example, it will be much less rare to pass through the chest, the thigh, the calf, the tibia ... In short, by the most suitable part of the body depending on whether one is attacked or not, well on its supports, in the middle of the race ... With a few times, a pigeon wing, an extension, a heel rest from another planet. Cool, is not it? Be careful though. Do not think that the sphere will always fall where you hope or that you will be able to chain all the gray-gray of Existence with address by embodying any millionaire in shorts. Even though the controls respond to a speed that allows the match to see their pace fly, it takes a minimum of talent for the avatar of the moment, a bit of mastery to do well and an environment that lends itself well . Do not forget that if you decide to continue with a shot or a pass, you should not be missed either in the printed direction or in the dosage. The requirement is real, the error of appreciation rarely catch-up.

Well in place :

And so we come to the last fundamental element for the feast to be complete: Artificial Intelligence. Let things be clear, you can get a good look by throwing a game on the fly. Player ID and style of most teams allow to see individualities and collectives express themselves substantially as in real life. However, for the more experienced, the passage through the box Game plan (where the best known players now display their good ball on the green rectangle) is fundamental. Training, placement, role, strategy, marking: you can absolutely configure everything and see on the ground that this applies most of the time, at the price of a rather complicated navigation, it is true, the fault of menus a bit rough. We are never immune to a misunderstanding or an offensive player who refuses to rush. Still, overall, one can believe belief, have confidence in its attackers to find spaces, place a piece of foot or skull, and in its defenders to retrieve tranquillou and virilement, and do not get blouser a deep pass air - so much easier to manage. And in his guardian. Well, not always. If he is the author of breathtaking reflexes par moment and the wounded strikes less fear, the last bulwark in his computer controlled version, sometimes forgets his hands and likes to go out in the feet of a lonely striker ... by throwing himself completely to the side. To be monitored in the next few weeks if there is not an unpleasant thing going on.

Tempo Bonito :

Well, once we know all that, what does it give? With a friend of about the same level: a game terribly pleasant, instinctive, fluid, not too assisted (basic, and not at all in all manual, for crazy-madmen) nor too fast; which responds to the finger and the eye, especially in its tricks, easy enough to assimilate; which forces to favor a minimum construction; which rewards vista and calculated risk taking more than full-speed bucking; which allows us to anticipate and press properly (especially with two, thanks to a transparent cursor on the gusse controlled by the CPU that could return you if changed by the associated key); in which one strikes oneself in front of certain trajectories and falls caught up in extremis before delivering a caviar; which gives the goal a festive character when one begins to master; which is not too choppy by arbitration, which is nevertheless capable of whistling non-existent faults on an excess of commitment or a delay of no consequence; whose stopped kicks have decided to deprive themselves of the abominable HUD of the last years.

And finally, who is very pretty on the field - with always bluffing models and faces whose expressions give more and more humanity to the different replays and celebrations, otherwise more dynamic - than around the green rectangle, where the public and stewards seem to have died less.

Work from PS4 Pro :

On PS4 Pro with a 4K screen, the result is downright divine, the details and the effects of light turning bewitching. Too bad that the comments of Grégoire Margotton and Darren Tulett sometimes appear beside the plate and scratch a bit the retransmission side, more worked, the last city affirming once again like a ball whose replicas, dictated, provide frequently the thrill of shame.

In short, the record is that we hold a game of football that does not want to drop, which surely has many secrets and should give us time to progress. With two or more, there is matter to have fun of long hours by adding to the famous: "go, this time, it is the last" several dozens of times. Especially since there are a few innovations mode side to be altered otherwise than with classic matches. The pure and hard solitaries will always be condemned to the same insipid and inconvenient training workshops, and will be able to plunge into a Masters League and a Towards a Legend more fleshed, with more parameters and interactions, but still a little dry ... But locally, the truth is elsewhere.

Se queda :

You've already heard about it. But it's not big deal. Because the Coop mode has everything to become the king of your evenings with friends. Here, up to three humans per team compete. With something that gives a little bit of salt to the meetings: you are judged on your individual performance. Your positioning, your dribbling, your pressing, your goals, your passes, your cagades ... Everything counts. A gauge at the bottom of the screen gives your "shape". At half-time and at the end of the match, you draw your robot with points. To create a bit of internal competition, chamber the black sheep or ignite. A delight. There is little lack but specific distinctions or rewards to make the whole even more powerful, more rewarding, more humiliating. But there is already enough to set fire to. The Random Match mode, star of PES 6, returns from the dead. This lets you choose the colors of a club or a nation and then draw in numbers, leagues, zones to make you a mystery compo. With the possibility, if the heart tells you, to indulge in a bizarre mind-game to draw an opponent player to the enemy, with the risk that he protected and refurges you his most beautiful goat. As for the Duel, it is always good to have real statistics engraved in the marble against someone to bring them out in case of bad faith.

Too early, Schillacci :

We can not finish without returning to the usual blackheads of the series. Though armed with the UEFA Champions League, Europa League, Asian Champions League, full of clubs and countries all over the world, with a strong focus on South Americans, a partner of legendary stars, PES 2018 always irritates a little with his lacks, forcing to see evolve PM Black White instead of Juventus Turin, for example, and disgusting kits. Fortunately we can easily change all that. Finally, we know that there are imperatives and that it is better to leave the game early enough in the season to have a small chance of existing. But what sadness for someone who will launch PES 2018 the first time, perhaps without the possibility of downloading a patch, to notice that the summer market is not basic taken into account and integrated. Well, go, once again, we will forgive and be patient. But it's good because we have fun.

summary :

More focused on the change than the previous version and the most delightful, PES 2018 marks a good progression for the Konami football series. The large replacement of the animations combined with the redesign of the physical models and an enjoyable reactivity in the orders allows to approach the first matches with a slight smile. This one expands as one learns to master certain elements in front of human players, that one begins to compose its laid-back rhythm and freedom offered in the constructions and the dribbles. And that the meetings begin to balance, to be tense, while allowing a minimum of spectacle. There is something to occupy, and animate, evenings football with friends without fear of boredom, all the more with a mode Cooperation that adds a big layer of fun. Even if this Pro Evolution Soccer is still fishing by some related aspects, it behaves like a crack on the ground. His instinctive feeling, his biting, his fishing, make it possible to count on him without asking any question on the pleasure that it procures.

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NOTE : 8/10

WE LOVE

An inimitable feeling, an immediate pleasure.
And a progression curve that one feels important.
An impression of control and freedom in construction.
The overall pace, fluidity.
The tactical aspect that has a big impact.
Very nice to look at.
Coop mode, future star of the multi.
The Random Selection.

DO NOT LIKE

The numbers not up to date without a patch.
Missing licenses, which will bother more than one.
The same training workshops for chandeliers and fashions that deserve to be totally reviewed.
The French comments in general, Darren Tulett especially.
Referee clearly paid by the opponent.

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