Sports Games

Konami returns to the position of FIFA for another football season, trying to regain the throne "usurped" by former football arcade game from Electronic Arts, which is now in its own right a simulation. Pro Evolution Soccer 2012 has instead taken the opposite route, not so much a deliberate choice but for the same reasons that have held series such as Grin Truism: the historic buildings that no change should be the best choice.

THE TIMIDITY OF THE CHANGES

In fact, despite the strong sense of deejay-vu that assails us when they reach the titles (how are the same as last year) some effort towards "progress" is known. They are all concentrated in the game itself and we have already analyzed in the preview stage. In short, the magazine was almost entirely artificial intelligence, especially of the companions, so as to create game situations and more likely closer to reality. Mates that are proposed on the wings, which move without the ball regularly, or that initiate action without our input, everything is more realistic than PES 2011 and makes the course of the game much more fluid. Moreover, thanks to new controls for the direct control of a partner, we can influence the movements of other players and radically change certain situations. Because of fairly complicated commands, it is not easy to use this feature during the game, while it is a real pick-me-kick. For example, a player can move to the center by moving even his marker, and then cross another part of the corridor and get free for a shot or pass macramé. Addition, in short, that works but that alone is not enough to erase the many small "nuisance" by the older generation remained unchanged. Among these, we find too many animations automatic or guided by the computer, so little freedom of movement, so much so that the race is still analog, but designed for the digital pad. We have only eight main directions and two speeds of movement, without any variation in the middle that could be useful in dribbling and precision movements. Moreover, it was confirmed last year as a great idea management "graphics" of the team with the system and schemes to drive replacements. Thanks to the enormous field drawn on the screen, it's easy to apply to the instantaneous changes in layout and disposition of our men.

The same conclusions reached in the previous paragraph can be extended to options and methods, more or less identical to those of his predecessor. We have the official license of UEFA Champions League, Champions League (always hidden in the league) and Copal Liberators, the Master League and Become a Legend mode in addition to the Master League Online that we have not tried online due to lack of support in our version. The only real added, or rather "return to the past" is the challenge in training to score and specific tests for kicks moves and abilities. As it did in early episodes for the PlayStation 2, you face different challenges and earning points, in this case, cups of bronze, silver or gold. A fun hobby, but it's certainly not a way that attracts the majority of the public more attentive to other areas of development. If it is true that Konami has taken the utmost care on the game play, it is equally true that there are no real added on the side of the mode, only minor adjustments and refinements. In his career, for example, are short films that enhance the atmosphere around and off the pitch: a chat with our agent, the coach who gives the directions in the pre-game and so on. As nice as an idea, the realization is just ok and the total absence of dubbing makes boring read lines and lines of text. Even the menus, taken from last year, they look more in line with the selected mode with new animations in the background. So, behind the icons, see the comrades in the career training or our agents to discuss with the president before signing for the new team.