CVG Interview Jon Murphy

“You said earlier this year that PES 2011 will force players to "relearn the game". Did you just mean PES or did you mean football games in general?

Bit of both, probably. Certainly relearn the way you play PES, which I think is very healthy. To start with, you'll just end up kicking the ball out and passing it in completely the wrong place.

You've been so used to lazy passing, where you kind of put it in the right direction and you kind of know it will go to someone's feet and that's the end of it. Up until now, it's been quite lazy football. This isn't. There is a learning curve, but the first time you put a ball unto space for another player to run onto without using any of the through passing is a great moment - where you can effect the shape of your team and the way they play purely by passing.

On top of that, we've got new control systems for things like feints, which have moved onto the right analogue stick. That makes things a lot simpler. There's lots of new things to learn - controls, abilities have to be relearn But a PES player should be defined by their willingness to learn anyway.”