The main issue with this PES is that it is a lil buggy. The keepers are terrible and make poor mistakes, the camera sometimes losses the ball when you have a shot, and there is no crowd at times. There are some new things added like the ability to add your face to a players, and add/remove players to a wall, but overall the faster, dribbling based gameplay and the bugs makes it the worst PES, and the beginning of PES failing to be the brilliant game it was and being a long way ahead of the competition. Gameplay 3.5/5 Graphics 4.5/5 Sound 3.5/5 Difficulty 4/5 Originality 3/5

When talking when PES hit its peak, I cite PES5, but many fans mention PES6. For me this went away from the super realistic feel of PES5, going slightly more towards what we saw with the forgettable 2008 more arcadey, speed influenced games. Still an excellent football sim, but I was disappointed with this after PES4 and 5.

This is the PES that I think is the most realistic and challenging. It took a while to adapt to it after coming from PES4 as it had the slowest gameplay yet which made dribbling around players harder and you had to work more for your goals. This is what you want from a football game, realistic gameplay and to feel relieved when you put one in the onion bag as you've had to work for it. The pinnacle of the series for me. Gameplay 5/5 Graphics 4.5/5 Sound 3.5/5 Difficulty 5/5 Originality 4/5

I haven't played this one for a while, but I remember it being the most fun of the series. It kept the realism but you could score more great goals than the other PES games, which from memory if playing with a good team made it a touch easy. Again, it added more teams and licensing and other small features also. Gameplay 5/5 Graphics 4/5 Sound 3.5/5 Difficulty 4.5/5 Originality 3.5/5

Jumping up a generation was what PES needed to take it to the next level and it did so. It kept the slow realistic gameplay of the ISS series and Pro Evolution Soccer 2 on PsOne but added better graphics, more teams, the PES shop, more editing etc. While gameplay wise it wasn't a huge change from the previous version, (and it didn't really need to be), everything was upped a level and made for a great football simulation. I lent this game to a friend and never got it back. Never trust anyone! Gameplay 5/5 Graphics 4/5 Sound 3.5/5 Difficulty 4.5/5 Originality 4.5/5