Peoww News

Yesterday and with little fanfare, the demos for the forthcoming PES installment, inevitably suffixed 2012, were released for PC download and on PSN. However the 360 demo has been delayed until next month due to ‘unforeseen circumstances’.

This is all rather beside the point especially since PES ceased to be relevant to the mass market around the time of PES5 on the original Xbox & PS2 (that’s being kind – Ed).

It doesn’t help that long-time producer Shingo “Seabass” Takatsuka seems to be even more deluded than Suda51 when it comes to what actually makes a good game these days.

Still, it’d be nice to be proved wrong as FIFA has been the benchmark since they revamped the game engine from Euro 2008 onwards. EA have been very much resting on their laurels, the only real innovation in their football games being of the American sort in the Madden series.

Pro Evolution Soccer 2012 is currently pencilled in for a mid-October release. Ian