Last year I complained that I didn't know enough about football games to really comment on PES 2013 . In truth, this year doesn't feel much different as I once again take it to the field.

Pro Evolution Soccer 2014 (PES 2014) is the latest instalment in Konami's flagship sports franchise that can be traced all the way back to the release of International Superstar Soccer almost twenty years ago.

Konami returns to the fore with the newest release in their long-running football simulation series. Seen by many of its followers as the ‘true football experience,' Pro Evolution Soccer has been a game of middling success this generation.

The King of football games is coming up the hill!

PES 2014 is a huge improvement in a franchise with a new engine, which will provide football fans with countless hours of fun. Sadly for everything good Konami has done, if they don't change their after sales administration, PES will never be top of the League again.

While many soccer fans would see the ongoing battles between Manchester United and Liverpool as one of the most exciting rivalries in the sport, gamers would likely beg to differ and look no further than the rivalry between the Pro Evolution Soccer series and EA Sports FIFA franchise.

PES has had a poor run in this generation. Once the go to football game on past gens had become an inferior title to the behemoth rising in EA Sports' FIFA franchise. Konami never gave up and slowly but surely, over the last couple of iterations of the title, we have started to see the emergence of...

Pro Evolution Soccer 2014 opens to the strains of Nessun Dorma. It's an intentionally nostalgic choice, alluding to the undimmed romance of Italia '90. But the sport has changed – it's become much bigger, brasher, frequently more concerned with players' salaries and sponsorship deals than what...

Great visuals; Atmospheric arenas; Creative gameplay

Stale presentation; Lack of game modes

Last year was a record breaking year for the PES franchise. It was the first year it earned the crown of the best soccer game from Family Friendly Gaming. Could Konami repeat Are they are on the verge of starting a legacy Does PES 2014 top Fifa 14

I'll start off by saying that PES 2014 is quite simply the best Pro Evolution Soccer on the current gen console, it has taken its time to get to this stage but it has never played or looked so good.