PES 2016 vs FIFA 16: 8 Key Aspects Previewed And Compared
7. Animations
Neither FIFA nor PES has fully mastered player animations yet, both with flaws in different areas (don't you just sometimes wish they combined into one ultimate football mega-game?). The increasing pace of FIFA in recent years has made everything feel a bit jittery, while Pro Evo - although smoother - made players look too stiff when going to ground, tussling for the ball, and so on. Goalies in PES 2015, meanwhile, seemed to be stuck in the previous console generation. Both FIFA 16 and PES 2016 have added a whole bunch of new player animations, while more offering any massive overhauls to the overall physics. In PES 2016, for example, we saw a right-footed left winger more willing to use the outside of his boot to spin in a cross, if his positioning and balance was right for it. Among FIFA 16's new animations we'll see more mid/waist-height tackling, so players will no longer just stand back in amazement when an opponent controls the ball on their knee or their chest, but will be able to get stuck in and try to get it off them.
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