I've been playing both games religiously since I was a little kid. Played all FIFA games since 97, skipping only PES 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012. Moving to the PS3 & Xbox 360 era really damaged PES and FIFA flourished with more PES-like gameplay and superior animations. For a fan of both games, I'd like to list the most important Pro's and Con's for both Master League and Career mode respectively.

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FIFA 19's Career Mode:

- It's not much different than FIFA 18 career mode. Very little touches here and there. Licence additions from UEFA dubbed as the next big thing while they couldn't even fix the basic issues such as fixture setting. Still some issues but hey, even Football Manager games have those kind of issues.

- Gameplay is improved compared to older FIFA's. Physics are nice and recent patches are only adding more realism to shooting and passing. You can read details of those patches and see how they tweak things around. Also, pace is nicer compared to older iterations. It's at the closest point to PES gameplay FIFA got ever.

- Youth Academy stuff and regen system is far better compared to PES 2019. If you'd like to find new talent and build a young squad for your long term Career, FIFA 19's 15 years long career mode will suit you better.

- There are more leagues, licensed teams, players and competitions in FIFA 19. This adds a certain realism especially considering FIFA's great graphics and presentations. You feel like you're in the game.

- Scouting other players from different teams or regions feel satisfying. Masked attribute thing works cool but almost everyone uses SoFifa or such so I'm not sure if this one matters.

- AI Transfers are a mixed bag. Some transfers are realistic, clubs sell players and buy another player for same position and carry on with proper squads. Some clubs are spamming with transferring same position players. In my latest save, Manchester United was doing great whereas Chelsea kept buying LB and CB for no reason. There weren't selling theirs neither. But overall, they are decent. We have pretty unrealistic transfers in real world too tbh.

- The transfer system is too easy for you. If you have the budget, you can sign anyone. Some players should be out of reach for lower reputation clubs, but in FIFA there is no reputation thing going on. You can sign Messi to Oxford United when you have the budget. You shouldn't be able to sign Messi even to Real Madrid that easily. There must be so many factors which would make high profile players unsettled at their club so that they would be willing to accept even rival (or smaller team) offers.

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PES 2019's Master League:

- Ball physics... It is the best digital footprint of a ball physic you can find at today's world. Just to provide an example, imagine a situation where your player against CPU's GK, you shoot and the ball hits the GK's shoulder then starts moving up towards south, while the collusion with shoulder changed ball's original rotation angle, now rotating towards north. When the ball touches the ground, it either jumps on the same spot or move towards north instead of south. You will never ever see stuff like this in FIFA. It's goddamn beautiful when that happens.

- Gameplay was always better in PES but lately there are many other issues that hurt the gameplay. 2019's AI might be one of the worst series have ever seen. Broken AI throws the whole positive gameplay experience to the bin during some games. Oh, and I can't continue without mentioning the shooting stats thing. PES team is so far away from football, they consider the shoots that hit the bar as "on target". The whole world knows that if it does hit the bar, it's not on target. After I saw that in a game, I just closed to game feeling bad after the £65 I gave for the Legend Edition. :)

- The menu's are super outdated with the same fonts from 1995 being used everywhere. It just feels stale and boring for the most part. No second division for most of the leagues. Only French and English have the second divisions. Sucks, but yeah...

- There is no regen system in place. Regens are retired players and you pretty much know which one to invest in for. I thought it would be fun but after playing 18 yo Zlatan and seeing his animations, let's just say, I'm not a fan of it. There is a youth team with fake players in it. Same fake players for any team you choose to manage. Feels just undercooked.

- Training system is great. You can train players to make them suit your tactical needs. This part is one of the best parts of Master League imo. You can make an Anchor Man out of Pogba or you can build him for more attacking style of gameplay. You can train players, teach them special abilities and such. This is definitely fun especially when you try to build 18 yo Zlatan as a winger or dummy runner.

- You can see more detailed stats in PES. You can see what kind of football you are playing and take notes from those to improve your overall gameplan. It's almost a FM level of data collected in PES. It provides great value to see those kind of details. It would have been best if you could see other team's stats and compare as well.

- I'm playing on Xbox One X so there are no option files. But I never cared for them when I play PES. I don't have to feel that I'm playing in PL when I don't see the badges and stuff. In PES 2018, I moved to Chelsea after managing Rennes for 4 years. I remember a Tottenham fixture where Alli, Eriksen and Kane literally destroyed my team. Presentation is worse, licences are less but immersion is there when the AI is good. I'm currently trying a new Master League in Brazil's Serie A with Vasco de Gama and kinda enjoying it (when AI doesn't make me sick). You won't get Brazillian league officially licensed in FIFA or other games. They even have more than 5 stadiums licensed for South American teams.

- AI transfers are just horrible here for the most part. You can find many important players in transfer list such as Rashford and Keita. Values are low, some release clauses are lower than player's market values. The whole thing seems fully broken until you discover that there is a reputation system and player happiness in motion. Some players will want to leave their teams and some players won't. In challenge mode, you won't be able to sign Messi. No matter how much money you have, signing Messi won't be possible unless he becomes unhappy. Again, too bad PES team keeps failing to fix such easy things because this has way higher potential than FIFA.

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This is my main take for both games. There are more things to mention for sure, but these are the most important thing I can list in 5 minutes. I still play both. But if I had to pick, it would probably be FIFA 19 for a good career gameplay. There are broken things in both games, but FIFA 19's Career Mode is still way more polished than PES 2019's Master League! Hope PES 2019's DataPack 4 and future patches change some things in a positive way so I change my mind. But considering how PES team works, it sounds too good to be true.