

You can lose every game and get relegated and you’d still be the manager as long as you have money in the bank.

The only way to fail the game is to go bankrupt. The biggest flaw, though, is still the same it ever was: You’re not a manager. It really makes the game feel more manager like. In the Master League, that means your coaches will give you comments on how the opposing team plays before matches, scouts will tell you why they failed to seal a transfer deal, and so on. What about injury prevention or screening new players for injuries, Konami? The biggest feature in the whole game throughout all the modes in PES2011 is feedback. My only disappointment is that doctors still only have one bar: how good they are at healing. One scout might be better at finding out a player’s abilities while another might be better at negotiating deals with other clubs while yet another might be a super scout that’s good at everything (and will hit your bank account something fierce).

In PES2011, The staff members have randomly generated faces, names, and nationalities as well as abilities. In PES2010, your coaches, scouts, doctors, and trainers were just level upgrades (Ie, Doctor Lv.2, Coach Lv.3, etc.), and the more money you spent, the better the respective staffer would be. The more points you put in, the faster the player will learn “†a simple but effective system. In PES2011, special abilities and new positions are just another bar for you to distribute points into. In the previous edition you distributed training points between six attributes (Power, Stamina, Shoot, Pass, Dribble and Power) and let your player develop, but when you wanted to train him to change his position or learn a special ability, he had to completely stop any other training and therefore stunted his growth. One welcome addition is how training works. This year, though, Konami pulled out all the stops: Master League has been revamped again and is even better than last year. Other than that, we were still rolling with many of the same types of modes we were stuck with since the PS2 days with the notable inclusion of a very bland “Become a Legend” mode and a community mode that, while useful, was not very important to a social hermit such as myself. Last year, we had only one major revamp in the form of an updated Master League mode. After a very impressive demo, does the full game herald the return of the greatest footy franchise ever? Meanwhile, the hordes of Mordor FIFA have only grown in numbers as Electronic Arts continues to make some pretty good footy games.īut here it is, the 2011 incarnation of our old king.

“The return of the king, the return of the king” is the mantra most Pro Evolution Soccer (henceforth known as PES) fans have been repeating since the much maligned PES2008 came out nearly three years ago now.
