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This means that some of the more recent additions in the series' mainstream – total control, for instance – have been lost, but it still plays an extremely refined game of football. Goals, when they come, are well worth celebrating, and they're often at the end of the kind of fluid passing that the game's robust ball physics enable.
While Nintendo's hardware does a good job of bringing some visual flair, it struggles a little in delivering the intricacy of control that its bigger brothers can. The analogue nub does a fine job, but the loss of a pair of shoulder buttons is felt and it's a shame that some of the control innovations of the Wii's PES games didn't find their way on to the touch screen.
Instead, the touch screen is dedicated to doling out snap tactics and housing the radar, and it's here that an unexpected fault of Nintendo's new hardware comes to light. The thick column of plastic that separates the two screens makes it hard to dart a glance from one to the other, a real problem when the reduced real estate of the 3DS's screen necessitates a certain amount of reliance on the radar.
Thankfully it's a problem that soon gets lost in the rhythm of the game, and after having to endure Konami's more recent efforts on Nintendo's handhelds, it's a delight to play something that's so faithful to the source – and the end-to-end, flair-led football it deals in is perhaps as good as it's ever been.
It does so aggressively at first, the default camera being a dynamic one that swoops across the pitch. As a technical showcase it's supreme, though as a means of keeping atop of a game it's next to useless. It's efficient enough in keeping the ball in view, as well as the player in control, but setting up shots or picking out teammates to pass to is a much tougher exercise.
You can't fault Konami's enthusiasm, but it's still a game that's best played in the traditional, side-on view. The 3D effect might be less pronounced, but it's still useful – the added depth and sense of perception unsurprisingly help in a sport where precision placement is king.
Pro Evolution Soccer 2011 3D is as fully featured as you could hope for a handheld game, for the solo player at least. The licenses it has are made to do some heavy lifting, with a full Champion's League mode coming complete with all the pomp and ceremony of the real thing, although, sadly, the Copa Santander Libertadores hasn't made the cut. Master League is back and is as horrendously moreish as ever, and even in its understandably watered-down state it's enough to turn one quick game into an entire night spent chasing the signature of that one player you're convinced can turn your fortunes.
Indeed, it only really falls short in its multiplayer offerings, with local play and a cute if uninvolving StreetPass feature not enough to compensate for the lack of online play. It's a missed trick that's perhaps indicative of the game's rush to accompany the launch of the 3DS rather than any oversight at Konami, but it still leaves a hole in the heart of an otherwise commendable outing for the series.
Closing Comments
Pro Evolution Soccer 2011 3D makes a strong debut on the 3DS, and of all the launch titles available it puts forward one of the strongest arguments for Nintendo’s brave new vision of the future. It’s a couple of features short of being a classic, but its compelling game of football has found a comfortable home on the handheld. It suggests that greater things are to come from this relationship, but there’s enough here to keep players going until then.
THE 3D EFFECT
The 3D helps that impression, certainly, as does the fact that Pro Evolution Soccer 2011 3D goes further than most of its fellow launch titles in showing not only what Nintendo's handheld is capable of but also what it can bring to existing genres.
It does so aggressively at first, the default camera being a dynamic one that swoops across the pitch. As a technical showcase it's supreme, though as a means of keeping atop of a game it's next to useless. It's efficient enough in keeping the ball in view, as well as the player in control, but setting up shots or picking out teammates to pass to is a much tougher exercise.
You can't fault Konami's enthusiasm, but it's still a game that's best played in the traditional, side-on view. The 3D effect might be less pronounced, but it's still useful – the added depth and sense of perception unsurprisingly help in a sport where precision placement is king.
Pro Evolution Soccer 2011 3D is as fully featured as you could hope for a handheld game, for the solo player at least. The licenses it has are made to do some heavy lifting, with a full Champion's League mode coming complete with all the pomp and ceremony of the real thing, although, sadly, the Copa Santander Libertadores hasn't made the cut. Master League is back and is as horrendously moreish as ever, and even in its understandably watered-down state it's enough to turn one quick game into an entire night spent chasing the signature of that one player you're convinced can turn your fortunes.
Indeed, it only really falls short in its multiplayer offerings, with local play and a cute if uninvolving StreetPass feature not enough to compensate for the lack of online play. It's a missed trick that's perhaps indicative of the game's rush to accompany the launch of the 3DS rather than any oversight at Konami, but it still leaves a hole in the heart of an otherwise commendable outing for the series.
Closing Comments
Pro Evolution Soccer 2011 3D makes a strong debut on the 3DS, and of all the launch titles available it puts forward one of the strongest arguments for Nintendo’s brave new vision of the future. It’s a couple of features short of being a classic, but its compelling game of football has found a comfortable home on the handheld. It suggests that greater things are to come from this relationship, but there’s enough here to keep players going until then.
by: Martin Robinson
Posted in: Sports
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