Pro Evolution Soccer 2015 is football game like FIFA, but here the developers aren't Electronics Arts, but Konami. Even though the game doesn't have everything licensed, Konami tried their best to have as many licensed clubs and players as they could. They even managed to have all world competitions licensed which at that time was rare.

The gameplay overall is very similar to FIFA, but the game has some distinguishable content which puts the game at the same level as FIFA games. What this game has is Master League and Become a Legend, which can be described as a career as manager and as a football player. The career as a manager is not as complex as Football Manager, but it still offers a good amount of options to enhance the immersion.
The career as a player is very simplified, you just take control of one player (you) during the match and you play your role, when an another club during the transfer window wants you within your team, you can accept or decline the offer.
Apart from those two modes, you have many others where you can play exhibition and league matches, competitions, online (at the time of writing, the servers are closed after the release of PES 2016) and offline co-op matches.
The only thing that can be annoying is the difficulty setting. The difficulty gap between two settings is too noticeable, which for those who mastered the easier difficulty and changed it to a higher one make the change a pain for a while.
Apart from that, as there are many non-licensed teams and there isn't an easy option to change that, everything has to be done manually or you have to find someone others savedata online, which after uploading to your console can erase all your files when overwriting it.

All in all, a great football game, full of content and offers great replayability, but there are some slightly issues and few tweaks that could've been implemented to make the game a bit better.

Reviewed on Jun 23, 2023


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