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Putting a creative player in the "hole" behind two strikers allowed you to control the entire flow of the match. It is arguably the last time a football game truly rewarded intelligent passing over pace abuse.

If you played PES 2015 , you remember the joy of using a Classic No. 10. Players like Wesley Sneijder , Juan Mata , or Totti were gods in this system. You didn't need pace. You needed vision. pes 15

PES 2015 is widely celebrated by purists for one major reason: Putting a creative player in the "hole" behind

Here is my retrospective on the game that brought the "Beautiful Game" back to our consoles. You needed vision

The shift to the Kojima Productions' Fox Engine in PES 2014 was a disaster. The players moved like tanks, and the input lag was brutal. But in PES 2015 , Konami finally figured it out.

There are certain years in football gaming history that fans never forget. For the Pro Evolution Soccer faithful, 2014 was a dark year. But 2015? That was the resurrection.