Which Soccer game series is better between FIFA and Pro Evolution Soccer when it comes to everything like teams, game modes, quality, fun?

It depends on what you are looking for in a soccer game.

In terms of gameplay, you need to go with PES, because the gameplay is more accurate of a simulation of how soccer is played. The AI in FIFA is totally broken, even on the hardest difficulties. I once scored 20 goals in a game against the hard level CPU because I could exploit the AI in FIFA. Couldn't do that in PES, the AI seems to adapt better.

But if your thing is having better graphics, licenses, and more real modes to choose from, it has to be FIFA, which does everything EXCEPT the gameplay better.

legacyme3 : Which has the better selection of teams/players?

zanderlex :

FIFA by far. It has the most leagues and teams, and it also has the best graphical fidelity of both teams and players.

Let a pro answer this since leggy doesn’t know what hard difficulty is on fifa, or how the games work. As far with licensing fifa is the way to go. PES is limited to licensing due to budgets and EA being a bigger company than Konami, in terms of sports genre in the gaming industry.

Granted fifa is broken by the AI given when set to World class and above (legendary and Ultimate difficulty) with the AI using meta formations and making like 60 rated players play like 90 rated stars. PES seems to have a more stable difficulty though it’s a bit fair easier to handle. For this difficulty I would say PES for a more fair AI

Now game modes; fifa does offer a bit more but they really haven’t updated career mode as much as they do to Ultimate team, their center of focus. Be a pro? Forget about anything new about the mode it hasn’t changed since fifa 15. Ultimate team though, it’s basically a pay to get better players or grind to buy them, tho you do have the option to buy packs like trading cards, buy sell, use them for squad building. PES has a similar game mode, tho I haven’t touched the game modes of it other than kick off since lack of licensed (more on that later) so bit bias here but FIFA due to lack of info on PES

Licenses: “ EA SPORTS FIFA 20 brings you more than 30 official leagues, 700+ teams, and 17,000+ authentic players.
Play in any of the 90 licensed stadiums across the globe, and experience exclusive access to the world’s biggest competitions.” as stated by the website from the premier league to Belgium and even some unknown leagues like mls or championship. PES has a lack of licenses but with this year it’s gotten the rights to Juventus and euro 2020 which is a huge blow to ea (which they own both uefa champions league and Europa league). Overall authenticity with licenses fifa takes the win

Gameplay: fifa is more of an arcade feel to it with simple use of formations and tactics. “easy to use but hard to master” is the cliché phrase. As for PES it’s more on the strategic tactical side of the game with formations and tactics going quite into detail which I really do enjoy. Gameplay has to go to PES

Graphics: PES hands down. The graphics are beautiful and the smoothness of the gameplay just makes it feel so authentic compared to FIFA. Fifa is improving on graphics and they are making stadiums more detailed with tunnels and banters but with PES, players look better, the field is better and the gameplay is much more smoother.

I do apologize for this long rant but if you want more of a fun arcade style gameplay with more authentic teams and crazy goals, FIFA is your game. Want more of a simulated game close to the authenticity of matches, with better graphics and don’t mind the lack of licenses and features, go with PES my man

becerra95 : By arcade, do you mean kind of like the difference between NBA 2k and NBA 2k Playgrounds?

Somewhat. Fifa is more fast pace in gameplay and sometimes the physics of the game is really questionable with outrageous goals and high scoring games. They try to make it more realistic but in my opinion they are doing a poor job of it. Fifa 19 being the worst out of the past 5 years.

zanderlex :

When people refer to arcade, they are essentially referring to a more gimmicky style of gameplay, think Backyard Baseball or RBI Baseball (the newer games) for Arcade, and MLB the Show as a simulation.

Simulation style games are typically tougher, and have a significantly higher skill ceiling than arcade games.