PES 2012: Off the pitch winner or on the pitch failure?

How does Konami’s latest football title fare against its arch-rival, and will it convert new followers to the long-running series?

If you are a soccer fan, and you like video games, even just a little bit, you’ve probably heard of the EA Sports FIFA series and Konami’s Pro Evolution Soccer (PES) series. Five years ago it was easy to differentiate between the two. Fifa was always the Britney Spears of soccer games; easy to pick up and play, easy on the eye, and catered to adolescents.

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PES on the other hand, was a soccer simulation. It was slower, more realistic and diehard fans dubbed it the ultimate soccer game. That all changed around 2007 when FIFA revamped its engine and decided Britney Spears was so 2002.

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