![]() ![]() Just as in the console and PC versions, the shooting system has been tweaked since PES 5, and requires better timing and the use of attacking players if you want to ensure your shots hit the target. The main problem you’ll have, though, is scoring. The tweaked controls aren’t a fault of the game, being something forced on the developers due to the PSP’s design, but they do make the game a little more awkward to play than the PS2 and Xbox 360 versions. Due to a few less buttons on the PSP a few control changes have had to be made, so, for example, ‘fast run’ is simply the right shoulder button, while tapping it performs a step-over. On the pitch things play more or less as you’d expect if you’ve been playing PES 6 on home consoles or PC. Sadly, you can’t import and export Master League data, so anyone hoping to continue their save while away for Christmas is out of luck. There’s also the option to import Edit data over from the PlayStation 2 game, assuming you own that, have made some edits and can link your PS2 to your PSP using a USB cable. Hidden in the options menu is the option to preserve battery life by disabling certain sound effects, cheering and music. Some effort has also gone into making the PSP game more handheld friendly. There’s still no online play or Game Sharing, which is more than a little disappointing, but local Ad Hoc wireless play is available. Still, at least we get a Master League mode this year, along with League, Cup and Training modes. You’ll get into a game before you start pulling your hair out, but you can’t hop into a game in a matter of seconds, making a slight mockery of the ‘quick start’ option in the Match menu. Those load times from last year have certainly been cut down, but not by as much as I’d hoped. ![]() Things didn’t start as well as I’d hoped though. Thankfully, PES 6 on the PSP is much closer to its PlayStation 2 counterpart than PES 5 was to its, and the majority of those problems that we tried to ignore last year have been sorted out. But it was PES on the PSP – a system European gamers had already waited an eternity to get hold of – so no one was complaining too much. For many gamers though, particularly in the UK, Pro Evolution Soccer is the big one, and PES 5 didn’t quite cut it.Īmongst other things the PSP game suffered from slowdown, horrific loading times, a lack of key features, and it forced players to use a rather too zoomed-in camera angle. Plenty of the big guns are here, with the likes of GTA, Ridge Racer, Metal Gear Solid, and FIFA all offering more or less the kind of gameplay you’d expect while sitting in front of a PlayStation 2. The PSP might not be winning the handheld war at the moment – or even getting anywhere near to the DS – but the little handheld that could has certainly delivered on its promise of console-quality games. ![]()
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