![]() ![]() A feature present in FIFA 07 as well, this will help you keep track of your players' progress and the team's status. In case you're planning a road trip and you're afraid that you'll lose all the PES 6 data, try to synchronize your settings and saves with the PSP, if you own one. Nothing will be the same once you've started modifying players, because you can get carried away and create all sorts of freaks with weird goal celebrations or the looks of a limping orc. Choose the Edit option to change each stadium's name, modify emblems and logos, register players or edit their boots or the Cup's names. There are restaurants where the only rule is "all you can eat" and there are games where the rule seems to be "all you can edit". Speaking of unlockables, each played match gets you PES points which you'll use to gain access to new costumes, hairstyles, stadiums or goal celebrations. Create new players, unlock some or edit them and of course, you can toy with their shirts or looks. And that's not even half of the things you can setup in PES 6, because the customization part of the game easily rivals that of FIFA 07. Select a country, its best 18 players, create a formation, choose a tactic and a strategy. You'll surely get lost in the menus, not the first menu, no, that's an easy one to navigate through, I'm talking about the hundreds of options that need to be customized to get to play a match. We could have really done without a ball selection if a realistic player list was present. PES 6 may have some problems with licensing some of the players, teams and stadiums, but Konami didn't forget to add some of the finest Adidas and Reebok balls on the market, not to mention the Reebok Cup. ![]() The players are chosen within certain criteria and having Buffon as a keeper and Drogba upfront can turn a match into a goalfest. There's also a random selection match option at the bottom of the menu and it involves playing with mixed all-stars teams. ![]() Start the match right away or choose one of the famous tournaments we all know: European qualifiers, North, Central American and Caribbean qualifiers or play through the South American qualifiers. Enter the main menu and select the game level according to your skills and you'd better start with Amateur or Regular, because Professional and Top Player are too much for you, especially if you've never played a PES title before. Another shock is the amount of space that PES 6's saves use on the memory card, no less than 2 MB. Pro Evolution Soccer 6 begins with a pretty pale cutscene, that doesn't make justice to such a beautiful game and can't be compared to FIFA's class A FMVs. Other than that, you shouldn't expect any storyline from Konami's title, since playing football doesn't require much of a plot. But the fiercest battle is not in the football field, not even in the whole licensing process, it's in the sales and Pro Evolution Soccer 6 has a long way to go, to reach FIFA 07's fame and press hype. Don't forget to check out the tips and tricks that will help you forget the handicap of not having the original player and team names available.Įver watched a match where Tyneside played against Merseyside Red? I bet you did, but you couldn't have imagined that these are the names that Konami picked for Newcastle and Liverpool while struggling to get more licenses for PES 6. Frankly, there are no other competitors for the "best football sim" title and we wonder if PES 6 can threaten FIFA 07 and its supremacy in the field of sports simulators. Konami dares to challenge EA Sports again with the sixth installment of the Pro Evolution Soccer game. All of that and it's not even half time for the endless production of games pertaining to this genre. We watched a world cup on the telly, played FIFA World Cup 2006, FIFA 07 and a couple of football manager games. 2006 was a very busy year for the phenomenon called football. ![]()
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