Having dabbled a little with FIFA on and off over the past decade, I decided to go back to PES for the first time since the PS2 days and immediately it felt 'better'. It just feels more organic and true to controlling a real match than FIFA ever does. I don't play online so I'm not assessing that side of things, but while the menu system is dreadful and horrible to navigate through and the lack of licensed teams is ugly and necessitates the manual download of data files, the gameplay is king!