Your views on the PES 2008 PC demo
Posted by Peter Willis in PES 2008 News on Fri 28 Sep 2007
Many of you have been flooding the forum with your views and thoughts on the demo for Pro Evolution Soccer 2008, so I thought I would share some of them right here on the blog.
‘Ristol’ says:
Downloaded it earlier today, have gotten a few matches in. Have to say that I’m just at awe over how much of a leap just about every aspect of the game has taken forward. Incredible. Everything just seems and feels a lot more authentic and real. Can’t wait to get my compy updated to enjoy the game with the graphics maxed out.
Meanwhile ‘Don Sweey’ ran into some troubles with Vista (and he wasn’t the only one!):
I’m in Windows Vista 64-bit, I’ve got the latest drivers from September 18 and it not only thinks my computer doesn’t meet the minimum specification, it believes my 640MB graphics card doesn’t have 64MB of memory. Oh and my controller isn’t recognised even though Windows recognises it. The demo looks s**t with the low quality setting I’m forced to use because the Settings program won’t accept anything higher - for the reasons stated before.
‘Onetimer’ got it working, but he wasn’t impressed:
Am I the only one who thinks this demo totally sucks? I mean the passing alone sucks so bad I don’t think I’ll be buying this rubbish. C’mon Konami, play a few matches of PES 5 and start everything all over again for PES 2009, thank you.
‘Gedo’ went into detail (read all here) and had this to say:
Well it’s like this, I was disappointed with the demo since minute one. It’s fine if it was a current gen game - I mean these are the changes I would like to see the company make every year. But this is not a technological leap from one console era to another.
He was one of few not enjoying the demo, ‘Fiend’ made these comments:
The demo is incredible. I like the gamplay very much and I play the game in medium quality yet it still looks AMAZING.
All in all I would say the response has been 80% positive on the forum. The only major concerns people seem to have with the PC version are the Vista issues and the fact you need a rather orgasmic graphics card to run the game smoothly on the high settings (required for many graphic features).
I personally dont no what all the fuss is about. i think this has got to be the pest pes yet (after 2) everybody was moaning that pro’s gameplay was fantatsic but should take a leaf out of fifas book graphic-wise and liscence wise and theyve done 1 of the two but with the same superb pro evolution gameplay we no and luv.
Now,new pes isnt bad as some think,there are some major improvements like graphics,player moving,crowd.But still even it is better then pes 6 it doesnt have the same feeling we had playing pes 5 and pes 6.Running is soooo bad,player does about two hundred steps while running but moves only few meters,it is really not good.Seabass sad something about redesigning shots to make scoring harder but shooting system is like on fifa 2005.From my point of view the best thing done are cut scenes which are really great.Hope pes 2009 will be the one we wait for so long
It’s always like this when moving to a new platform. Just look at the differences between PES 5 or 6 and the first Winning Eleven that came out for PS2 (it would be something like PES 2.5). It is abysmal. The first version for PS2 was a PS1 game with updated, yet shabby graphics (same player models) and a couple of tweaks to gameplay, animations, and such. You have to give them time for fine detailing. The game is still really good, and looks like they even managed to change quite a few things with the ML. Surely next year’s version will be a complete leap forward in many respects.
seems you guys are all been waiting this release for too long and now you don’t see that it is not a great one. i just love pes but it appears konami wanted to attract a part of the fifa fans with the new improvements that they implemented. i was so disappointed after my first game….and after 1 hour i stopped playing. pes has something special…and that was lost with pes 2008. too bad.
i just have bought pes 2008 and i regret buying that shit , it sucks
i just have bought pes 2008 and i regret buying that shit , it sucks playes walk funny and run funny
they run like clowns
and the online is shit lag lag lag )
konami disappointed me and all the fan of their products.pes 2008 is not worth the 19 dollars not even 4 dollars
you know what?winning eleven 3 on ps1 is much better than pes 2008