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Posted on July 19, 2013 at 12:42 PM.

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CVG's PES 2014 Hands On Preview

A very thorough write-up from Daniel Dawkins over at computerandvideogames.com. Some interesting tidbits:

On dribbling:

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	You no longer hold L2 and perform Street Fighter-style stick taps like PES 2013, but use more intuitive right stick sweeps (controlling 'weight shift') in conjunction with the left stick (to indicate the 'ball delivery direction').

On defense:

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	PES 2013's complex, multi-button, defending has been simplified. Hold X and the left stick to stand off you man (low risk), add R1 to increase pressure and move closer (medium risk) and / or double-tap x to make a tackle (high risk) - even if the ball is nowhere near. Square button calls in a second defender to help. As ever, it's a battle of timing relative to your defender's attributes.

On AI animations:

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	Neymar took the lofted pass in his stride, barely losing acceleration. The transition between animations is much more natural, whereas in PES 2013, you could almost see the player switching 'off' between frames. Better yet, when the keeper rushed out to the edge of the area, Neymar's chip looked improvised - a lofted, skewing scoop with the outside of the boot, angled around the keeper's body.

What does everybody think?

FIFA 14 News:

In case you missed it, some FIFA news in the past few days.

FIFA 14 Features For iOS and Android Devices

Gareth Bale Shares FIFA 14 Cover with Lionel Messi in the UK, Ireland and Middle East

FIFA 14 Features 19 Officially Licensed Brazilian Clubs

Football Manager Retrospective

Here's a nice comprehensive review of the first half of the Championship Manager/Football Manager franchise, courtesy of RetroCollect. Don't know if there will be a part two (it's been a month and a half already), but for any CM/FM fans feeling nostalgic, this is a must read.

For what it's worth, here are my top 3 games in the series:

3) CM 96/97 - A sentimental favorite. I had played CM a few years already, but this was the one that got me hooked. Moving to a new country with no friends, then getting a brand spankin' new computer (with a Pentium Pro!) helped accelerate the addiction.

2) CM 01/02 - Don't know what I can say about the game that hasn't been said. It's probably, still to this day, the one game I've played that found the perfect balance between fun and depth.

1) FM 2013 - But hey, we gotta keep looking forward, right? Yes, the game pace moves a little slower now, and the press conference does tend to get rather repetitive after your first month on the job... but still, it's really impressive, when you step back and think about it, to see just what a massive game FM has become over the years, covering pretty much every aspect of a football manager's life with incredible detail.

Dishonorable mention: CM 4 - If you compare the game to just video games in general, it's really not a bad one. But in the CM/FM world, CM 4 just felt... sloppy. There were quite a few more bugs than usual, and some of which were quite severe. I still remember trying, in vain, to bump my defenders' positioning attribute (they just go straight down), and then heading over to the SI message boards and getting my first taste in heated internet debates. In the end, I left without a solution, and played on with centrebacks having 4s and 5s in position.

The heated debate, by the way, was "what constitutes gamebreaking?" Things haven't changed much, eh?

What's your favorite CM/FM game of all time?

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Morning, boys. How's the Water?

On an off topic note...

I had a run-in yesterday on the road with a fellow motorist, who can only be described as an angry douchebucket.

You see, my neck of the woods is notorious for police speedtraps, and unless I suddenly have a surge in income (hi, OS big bosses!) there was no way in hell I'll be doing anything more than ten over the limit any time soon.

Yesterday, this fella, who I guess felt that he was stuck behind me for eternity on this two lane road, decided to finally overtake me and show me the finger while doing so. Then, at a red light, he took up the left turn lane to use his vast vocabulary of cuss words (I have to say, there was a split second when I was impressed at the amount of compound words he was able to come up with) to describe how slow I was going and how annoyed he was at being stuck behind a, erm, let's say a kitten, like me. When the light turned green, he cut back in front of me and peeled away, but not before raising his finger out the window again, just in case I didn't see it the first time.

Needless to say, I was quite pissed. Then as I drove on I wished a few unsavory thoughts upon him. Maybe I'd see him further down the road being pulled over by a cop (actually, it was more surprising that he wasn't). Maybe that might make him late for his candelight dinner with his wife, causing a big argument, and his wife leaves him. Forever. But not before keying his car on the way out. But then I remembered this:

And then I felt better about it all. I hope the video would come in handy for some of you at some point too.