Pro-Evolution Soccer is a game about kicking a ball around, as this completely pointless E3 trailer confirms. The only thing I took away from it is that sometimes football stars wear garish shoes while absurdly bombastic music plays - but thankfully the accompanying press release had a little more information on hand. PES 2014 features an "all-new engine allowing for the most comprehensive advance for the Pro Evolution Soccer series since its inception," apparently. Konami then bamboozle us with acronyms.
Well, acro nym . M.A.S.S. stands for Motion Animation Stability System, or in layman's "?????" Konami went on to elaborate. "Rather than a series of preset animations that occur under specific circumstances, M.A.S.S. reacts instantly to any situation, with the reaction of a fouled player entirely dependent on the direction and force with which they are tackled."
So it's a new, apparently more accurate/fair animation system. I think. But wait: there's also something called Trueball Tech. "Trueball Tech allows the player to trap or knock on a using the analogue stick with detailed bar-centric physics determining the weight shift of the player and the height and speed of the , as to how the player's body will automatically shape to receive it." Clear as crystal.
What did we think of PES 2013, you ask? We thought "65%" .
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