10 Things Pro Evolution Soccer Needs To Change To Compete With FIFA Again

As the gaming world looks ahead to the next generation of consoles on the near horizon, can Pro Evolution Soccer topple its arch rival and regain its crown as the king of football games. It is over a decade since PES was the undisputed champion in the genre way back on PlayStation 2 when the series peaked with PES5 and PES6.

However, since it has faced an uphill battle to regain its fans against the juggernaut that is EA’s FIFA. For many years now it hasn’t even been close, FIFA has continued to bring more to the table year on year whilst Pro Evolution has been stuck treading water rather than catching up. However, the last couple of games in the PES series have had glimmers of their former glory.

Despite this, even for die-hard fans there have been problems in particular with the latest game eFootballPES2020. The main features of a brilliant series are there, but what needs to change in their next title to challenge FIFA as we move into the next generation of football games.

With the rebrand of the series last year to eFootballPES2020, a huge amount of the marketing of the game was about the re branding. As part of this the menus were given an overhaul, but it wasn’t the step forward the series needed.

Only the main menus were updated and gave off a basic poorly designed look. Delve deeper and inside each game mode such as Master League, My Club and Become a Legend they are exactly the same as previous games in the series. New consoles are the perfect time to give the series a complete visual makeover.

Some fantastic community led designs are done every year, but on the whole the menus remain the same. When new players load up the game this is the first thing they see and currently it looks like something from a previous generation of console not the next generation.