First impressions are heartening, as the front end has been given a thorough scrub-up. It's still not quite the match for FIFA's glistening menus, but it has both a charm of its own and, more importantly, an added level of functionality. This is most explicit in the team selection mode, which utilises a drag and drop system that's so intuitive you wonder why it hasn't been done before. Changing tactics and formations is now simple and fun, and the interminable menu trawl that used to precede every serious minded game of PES has been confined to the past.