
The teams may have fake names, but they behave more convincingly than any number of branded clubs with pixel-perfect kits and crests. Put simply, PES 2017 creates a better sense of teams and players with their own styles of play than any football game I've played before. Whatever the failings of the port – and they're significant and frustrating – this is a remarkably good sports game, despite the lack of licenses and some bizarre structural problems. If I didn't have access to a PS4, I'd be playing PES on my PC an awful lot. Given that I have the game on PC and current-gen console, I'll never touch the PC version again now that I've played enough to confirm that it fails to live up to the PS4 version, but it's still one of the best football games I've ever played. It's not an abomination, and playing alongside the PS4 version I haven't found the actual flow of the matches any less impressive, but the ageing graphics are immediately noticeable. It is, as was the case last year, a half-step between the PS3/360 version of the game, and even if you don't particularly care that Juan Mata isn't as adorable as he is on the PS4, it's ludicrous that the system that allows for the most configurable version of the game ends up with a half-formed hybrid.īuy the game on PC and you're getting a version with uglier player models and (for me, in these early days at least) laggy multiplayer.
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Pro Evo's PC release deserves a pummelling though. In this line of work, there's little more frustrating than having to pummel an excellent game because it fails on a few fundamentals. And the PC port is an ugly downgrade in comparison to the current-gen console versions. Take it online, though, and things start to fall apart. On the pitch, it plays spectacularly well, with both individual players and teams expressing themselves as recognisable entities, and Master League is a superb singleplayer mode, making player development entertaining and simple to grasp.

Pro Evolution Soccer 2017 is a fantastic football game, quite possibly one of the best ever.
