FIFA 15: 10 Lessons It Must Learn From Classic PES

8. 30-Year-Old Footballers Are Still Useful

It's certainly true that a footballer's career is short, but EA Sports applies this notion inaccurately and far too ruthlessly. FIFA 14 suggests a player's 30th birthday is the beginning of a sudden and violent decline in overall ability. Career Mode players will be familiar with their older squad members becoming deadwood after their physical and technical attributes dwindle within a single campaign. Physical degeneration is fair to an extent, but real-life players don't lose their class in 12 months €“ look at Andrea Pirlo, Yaya Toure and 2013 Ballon d'Or nominee Franck Ribery. Growth types in PES meant it wasn't uncommon for some players to remain brilliant well into their 30s. A select group of worthy legends were given the long-term development curve in PES5, namely Paolo Maldini, Zinedine Zidane and Cafu among others. Konami assigned this trait with diligence to avoid letting hordes of superhuman veterans boss the Master League for decades. Considering the enormous power of next-gen consoles, surely EA Sports will soon get cracking on adding personalised player growth types in Career Mode. Konami was doing it back in 2005.