Football Club for PES 2017

There are a reasonable number of game modes in Football Club for PES 2017, including friendly matches, cups, and training. The one thing that's missing is the series' much-loved Master League mode, which lets you both manage and play as your favourite team in other versions of the game. In its place is the World Tour, where you're assigned a random selection of players that you must take through the various tiered cups until you're eventually playing the best teams in the world. While playing with random players is arguably less satisfying than taking control of your favourite team, adapting to an unfamiliar squad does provide an interesting challenge. You can upgrade your team thanks to a strange system of gambling credits. Gold, silver, and blue credits are dished out depending on your performance in each game, and you can then spend these in the game's Gatcha-Get toy machines or traditional fruit machines. Different coins win you different classes of players. Gold coins give you access to the best players, blue coins let you pick from second-tier players, and silver coins get you random players. Once you have players in your squad, you can increase their passing, moving, and tackling abilities in the Football Club for PES 2017 shop. Ultimately, though, it all feels a bit unrealistic and leaves you with very little feeling of attachment to your team. This gambling feature is also completely at odds with the youth-oriented presentation of this year's game. For whatever reason, they decided to include a very brightly coloured menu system that features a child mascot explaining the various game modes. There's also a esque collection element to acquiring players, as you can pore over photos and statistics almost as you would with an old-fashioned sticker album. The audio doesn't fare much better. It lacks commentary, and the repetitive, cheesy music does nothing to help the overall presentation. One thing the DS version has in its favour is that, unlike in other versions of the game, the club teams are all officially licensed, meaning that player names and team kits are as they should be. The list is extremely limited, however, with only two teams per major football nation. This means that you get Newcastle and Tottenham from England and Inter and A.C. Milan from Italy, but not Manchester United or Arsenal. On the national side, 57 of the current top-ranked sides are present, and you can unlock classic teams, such as Brazil and England, from the Football Club for PES 2017 shop by winning matches in the world tour. Strangely, the option to edit teams is only available for certain nations.