6. Flashy Presentation
A goal flies into the back of the net, a wonder strike from the players centre midfielder who they brought through the youth system and built their team around. It's so good that it will be regarded as brilliant as the Beckham half way line goal. The player runs off in celebration kind of. Because lets face it, they never really look like they are celebrating: it's more running around with their arms in the air and mouths open wide. It's all a bit comically rubbish. Win a major competition and you receive a cut scene made up of the most awkward wooden poses that a video game character has ever made. When a player wins a game like that, or scores a goal like that, they want to feel the passion; that the team has done something utterly amazing. Players want the team to parade around the pitch with the trophy, bringing their kids onto the pitch, streams and streams of colourful paper flying around the place. Players wants to see the manager and the back room staff on there too. It is this kind of flashy presentation and feel for the euphoria of the sport that Konami seem to completely miss. Seeing PES and its group of players walk up to a cardboard cut-out stadium fans with a single flare going off is not a celebration. The game needs more epic.
Dale Trigg
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