FIFA 14 vs PES 2014

TEST | It's been almost a week since the two traditional rivals video game football clash in radius and on the consoles of French players. France Info able to test the two giants of the genre and, unsurprisingly, the hierarchy has not reversed this year.

Come on, no suspense superfluous this year, FIFA maintains a significant lead over its competitor PES. The brains of Konami will certainly look the sales figures of their rivals EA Sports lust and some jealousy. As since 2007 and reversing curves with the appearance of the Sony Playstation 3, actually.

But despite this premise, incontestable, PES 2014 catches gradually became his calling late in recent years.

Two "real" football simulations

Playstation 2, the argument of "footballogues" fundamentalists was brandished as a club: it was on Pro Evolution Soccer need to rush if you like real football. Argument less true with the next generation of consoles, that of the PS3. PES had missed walking, too many bugs altering the overall flow of the game

This year, PES offers something much more enjoyable than its predecessor smoother movement, play nice passes, strikes ultra-realistic ball ... That said, many bugs and other slowdowns still affect the whole.

The gameplay has improved PES 2014 Konami ©

On its side, FIFA 14, which already had a big lead, there is a model to follow, more than ever. At EA Sports, we know fix what does not work from one edition to another. In any case, it seems to be aware of what is wrong. This year, the flow is always waiting for you, the overall speed very pleasant. And traditionally weak point, the realism of the game is growing rapidly. Communicating sell Pure Shot technology, which is supposed to bring more realism and precision strikes. Result: an attacker can not dribble on his own half of the defense to score a goal into the top corner, his wrong foot.►►► Gameplay / Tactical / Fluidity: FIFA 14 keeps a good head start, but PES 2014 progresses.

Modeling: more failures

This is one of the parameters that football fans look first at each fall out of their favorite game. The face of the players is it true to life?

At PES, we put everything on the football stars. Thus, Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and Franck Ribery are almost perfect. But if you look at the "sidekick" or worse, unknown to the general public, the misfires is total. Some faces look like a pile of rough-hewn pixels.

The Italian national team in PES 2014 Konami ©

In FIFA, the whole is much more homogeneous. Some players are certainly less successful than PES, but most of the team members is recognized without difficulty, with few exceptions (look closely at the side of the OM and PSG for example, to laugh).

The team of Borussia Dortmund on EA Sports FIFA 14 ©

Stages, they resemble roughly what they are. Advantage FIFA 14 comes out the big game with real songs fans and modeling the public and most successful infrastructure.

►►► Modeling / Realistic: slight lead for FIFA 14.

FIFA, the undisputed master of contents

No suspense about it: FIFA reigns supreme content. Logic when the video game is the association which organizes football globally, and we have partnered with four gold Lionel Messi Ballon.

FIFA 14 is more than 600 clubs in 33 leagues on different levels (five official divisions for the English league for example), and the vast majority of national teams that count. Everything, of course, with the real names of clubs, players, real shields, jerseys, stadiums ...

Camp Nou FC Barcelona in FIFA 14 EA Sports ©

PES 2014 still runs into the same pitfalls. The game can only rely on licenses in Ligue 1 and Serie A Italian. The rest is just a litany of names resembling, in line with previous editions (Manchester Blue for Manchester City, in particular). Note however that the game has an exclusive on the Champions League, the Europa League and Copa Libertadores (in South America). However meager to convince fans that still have the option of spending hours to edit a player or jersey.►►► Content / Licenses: advance FIFA 14 can not even be discussed.

Online, no debate

For three or four editions of PES and FIFA , the ability to play online is particularly developed in the two rivals.PES 2014 can of course compete against players online . Good gameplay, interesting content , the license scores this year.Unfortunately for PES , FIFA 14 is spread even faster. The downloadable content is impressive , the performance of a team fit those of his real sister, updates are numerous and very exciting and competitions provided online.► ► ► Online gameplay : online, FIFA 14 is moving forward._______________________________________________________Final Decision: it is final. FIFA 14 wins the match without challenge , the license from EA Sports seems every year improve what already seemed very successful. And even if the start of sales since last Thursday and setting rays , suffered from competition from GTA V , the game should again be installed high in the hit parade . But beware , PES has not disarmed, far from it. Even if the Konami game suffers from its structural defects (lack of official licenses , content , gameplay a bit dull ), many efforts have been made , and a fix patch announced for November could solve a lot of problems . The next fight will take place on the next generation of consoles , including the Playstation 4.