Pro Evo 10: No game face required

After the fun I had making my ‘game face’ in Fight Night 4 I’ve been reading up on what improvements we’ll be treated to in the next installment of Pro Evo (thats PES10 to you newcomers and Pro Evolution Soccer to the console philistines amongst you). So, will there be anything similar to game face in the next Evo?

No, but there’s a good reason for this: the developers at Konami have concentrated their efforts on overhauling the graphics and lighting to improve the realism of the gameplay. Last year’s game gave the graphics a touch up for the HD consoles but as you can see from the screenshots this year the detail has been taken to the next level.

Some of the improved detail is no doubt due to the expansion of the development team into an international unit rather than the solely Japanese squads of the past, giving Konami access to more expertise and technology. The key difference visually is the inclusion of realistic in-game lighing which includes facial and object shadow. This allows for the creation of near perfect likenesses of the beautiful games’ best – and sometimes ugliest – players. It also means if they were to attempt to integrate a ‘game face’-style system into the game, us punters might come off looking a little worse for wear.

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Posted: August 2nd, 2009 under Computer games, Sport.
Tags: Messi, PES 10, Pro Evo, Torres