14 DAY TRIAL // Konami has officially confirmed that Pro Evolution Soccer 2011 will be arriving in the fall of this year with some of the most significant gameplay changes that the series has seen during its entire existence. But even as the developers are aiming to shake up the way the game plays, they are also keeping some of the most important elements of the previous installments and expanding on them.
The Master League element will be moving online, allowing players to choose one team and manage it as they are going up against other real life gamers. The competition will heat up as former lesser known players rise to prominence and as real life gamers enter bidding wars in order to snap them up for their own team and then build an entire system around them and their skills.
Konami is also promising an expanded role for the UEFA Champions League and for the UEFA Europa League, with the investment players make in club competitions on that level being more important than some local league matches for fans and with the pressure of the competitions and their sometime surprising results better simulated in PES 2011.
Those who do not like to focus on Europe and enjoy the more explosive nature of South American football can also play the Copa Libertadores, the most important club competition of the South.
Pro Evolution Soccer 2011 will again have Lionel Messi, the Barcelona striker superstar, as the cover athlete. The developers are saying that the new football simulation will have a higher difficulty level overall, justified by all the changes Konami is making to the underlying structure, designed to make sure the player has more control over the actions of the player they control and of the team around them. The title is expected to arrive on all major home gaming platforms, a version for the PlayStation Portable also being planned.