This Is What FIFA 16 Brings to the Beautiful Game

As an owner of both pes and fifa this year Pes is the better game for the first time since 2008. It feels like the old pes - and can be great again, but fifa is solid and good as well.

I'm only interested in this version of Fifa because of the ability to use female teams

@themcnoisy
I totally agree and from what I've heard of both PES and FIFA right now, PES will definitely take it this year. For most it doesn't really matter because they want 40 licensed leagues and an expensive form of Football Manager, but the people who actually want the beautiful game, instead of the fancy schmancy game, they will certainly buy PES.

I think it's a shame these sports titles are annualized and I feel there is a better approach without losing money. They should bring a totally new game every 2 year, with lots of bigger changes and tweaks and charge us $80. In the years in between they can just give us roster updates for $20- $30 so they'll still make the same amount of money. Especially in EA sports games you see that one year they focus on defensive and tweak it so the offense sucks, to reset all changes the year after and focus on attack once more. With longer development cycles they could actually add stuff that matters and stop being so bland as they are now. PES will have the same btw, now it's nearing perfection: there is too little they can do in just 1 year to improve on an already excellent game.

Sorry but to me...PES is terrible! PES was good when I was a kid...is very Arcade like, the graphics are better in FIFA and PES just doesn't feel like real football...
Anyway, that's my opinion

Am I the only one who never really notices all of these changes? It just seems to be the same game every year.

I'm addicted to Rocket League at the moment so that'll be my football fix for this year

@carlos82 F*** YEAH ROCKET LEAGUE ROCKS! Man when I finish my last exam friday I'm going to do a 24h marathon of that game xD

@AFCC How are the graphics better? Crowds - fifa 15, sky camera angles - fifa 15, animations - draw, character models - pes 15, in action replays - pes 15, realistic reactions to ongoing play - pes 15.

To be fair upto last years pes 2014 I didn't know what Konami were doing the whole last gen had been a debacle. The focus on attacking play, crazy ai which would run away from the ball in defence, headers either too easy or too hard, midget players, huge pitches, input lag, awful graphics, terrible online latency, no licenses still....

It seems pes 2015 seems to work, the defending has been made simpler and is more effective now, the ai is loads better, defensive play is vital and defending in large chunks to counter attack is finally a viable option, headers are dependant on space more like nba games it seems which is ace and fair, players are more in proportion now, input lag is negligible, the graphics are better, licenses however are still a joke.

@themcnoisy I just think they are betterm although I agree that Fifa doesn't have realistic reactions (those dead faces) but I don't agree that's a part of better graphics...simply some animations. Looking at both games I find the players WAY more close to their real life counterparts in Fifa than PES. Like I said, it's only my opinion and it means almost 0 in life xD
Like I said, PES is too arcadey...The shots feel terrible to me and the crosses feel impossible to get right...I just can't love it like I LOVED PES4...that was the last PES I loved...

Haven't played much football/soccer games since the Winning Eleven series back during the PS2 days. I like how FIFA's got the official jerseys and stadiums but which is better - FIFA or PES?

@WanderingBullet imho, if you like teamplay, clever constructed football with deep passes and team movement, get pes. It is good as the old ones, very tactical. If you like to have 11 Neymars on the pitch, get fifa. Also, i played fifa a lil online... Everyone just score in the same way, fast striker served with a long pass.... And this sucks

@arnoldlayne83 Eleven Neymars?! XD Wouldn't mind one De Gea and ten Messis, though. Anyways, do you mean FIFA's easier to get into/play compared to PES?

@WanderingBullet I meant that fifa is more into take the good player and let him do tricks. Pes is more take the team and make them play good. It is individual technique vs team tactics

@themcnoisy Have they completely remade PES from scratch since PES 2014? That one was given away with PS+ and it was, without doubt, the worst football game I've ever played. Slow, boring, terrible graphics (I don't care about visuals but it looked like an early PS2 game), no atmosphere. Dreadful commentary repeating the same three phrases, absurdly easy difficulty... I honestly thought they'd given away the wrong game. Did they just start again on PS4?

I'd love a title to take on FIFA as it still just doesn't feel right to me. I think that it's the way, at the end of the day, you really aren't in control of anything that happens in the game, no matter what you're told, everything is controlled by the computer. It's always felt more like a game to me FIFA, while ISS and then the first few Pro Evo's felt like football.

@arnoldlayne83 Online FIFA is just stupid. I went on a few times to see if the trophies would be possible to get... nope. Every single person just wants to get the ball and run at the opposition to score. Then they lose it and a player on the other side does the same.

The one time I managed to find a few people who wanted to actually play football we passed the opposition to death, contained them and won easily. Heavily too. Felt like a proper football game then. Never found out who they were and every game since has been the usual pile of crap.

@arnoldlayne83 Noted. Thanks.

@rastamadeus loads better, play on professional, passing is great you make mistakes but you know its your fault. Try it I bought it for £25 new from Grainger games but its only £20 in game. This is the ps4 version of the game.

I agree with @themcnoisy pes 2015 is great. I loved fifa 14 but 15 was horrible. Pes 2015 is all about tactical awareness, not just ping pong football. It's really deep and balanced. The E3 previews of both fifa and pes are off the charts this year, so two great alternatives for football enthusiasts.

I don't own either Fifa or Pes but I talk to people alot that do on PSN and the general opinion from those people was that Pes was much better. The people that played Fifa 15 seemed to openly hate it but for some reason kept playing it o.O the chart's don't lie though and nobody can say Fifa 15 didn't do awsome all year! I don't buy sport's game's anymore I won't be buying Fifa 16 look's pretty good though.

@themcnoisy Funnily enough I saw the PS3 version in Grainger in town for £14 the other day. Think I'll give it a try. With the football getting closer and closer I'm getting the itch.