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Posted on March 19, 2013 at 07:00 PM.

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Winning Eleven Blog has posted a more detailed writeup from Edge Magazine's preview of PES 2014's Fox Engine. Some additional interesting tidbits:

I know it's all words, and we're getting to the point where we should start to temper our expectations until we, you know, actually see something from the actual game, but this is another encouraging anecdote: "the article states that real and engine versions of Old Trafford were shown and they were indistinguishable to each other."

"Players will be able to drop a shoulder BEFORE the ball arrives": A million times yes. Again, this can go a long long way to controlling the pace of the game, especially when the action is in the middle of the park. The ability (or at the very least, the potential) of faking out a defender before the ball arrives can encourage opponents, CPU or human, to play a less aggressive (and some might say more realistic) pressing game.

The speculation is that the right stick is going to do a lot of the new "body controlling" feature. While I'm very much in favor of deep control schemes, let's hope it doesn't get too, too complicated to perform a split-second action.

The match atmosphere is supposedly much improved. Nope, I'll believe it when I see/hear it. This is the one area where I'll remain skeptical until proven otherwise.

Home/away momentum effect: Basically, a loud crowd can give the home team a boost and throw off the away team's game, while players with strong mental makeup can negate the negative effects to a certain extent. A good idea in theory, but it can be a potentially hard task to find that balance between underplaying the effects of momentum, or making them too exaggerated.

"The Player and Ball are now a complete separate entity": There's not a lot of detail on what exactly this means. It's probably more about how a player can control the ball while dribbling, but allow me to dream a bit here: The best case scenario is that if a pass is hit (or deflected), the match engine will finally stop "choosing" a selected recipient to try and receive it, while everybody else jogs on like there's not even a ball on the pitch.

How are you feeling about PES 2014 so far?