First impressions (better/worse/same)

8 people have voted this to be the game they were waiting 4 years for and nobody has still said it's worse than last year out of the 30 votes so far

That's encouraging.

theman said:

anyone with the demo noticed that sometimes the cpu slide tackles for you and also the cpu clears the ball when you dont want it to

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so they brought that back oh noes

^In pes 10, it was still there, although it was minimal.

I am hearing alot of complaints on the Ref. Apparently far too many fouls are being called and this is even with good clean tackles.

Is this true? Is the game flowing ok?

bongplayer said:

I am hearing alot of complaints on the Ref. Apparently far too many fouls are being called and this is even with good clean tackles.

Is this true? Is the game flowing ok?

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Yea sadly its true but on the flip side you get away with some bad tackles.

Can't believe people are rating the graphics so highly.

May be it's just me and my TV (although I have HD), but in game the graphics are awful, everything has jaggedy lines and is rough around the edges, looks like a PS2 game.

^Don't know, but on youtube, I've seen some HD footage with capture cards and the graphics looks like pes 10 not like a ps2 game. Now it may be that konami downgraded the quality a little to downsize the download file.

Graphics: (8.5) probably a bit better than last year but i dont really care about graphics that much

Sound: (6) not that great the sound of the ball hitting the post is terrible imo

Commentary: N/A

Menu: (9) love it

Shooting: (7) hard to mark this one need more time to practice really hard to keep the ball low when shooting from outside the box

Passing: (9) love it

Dribbling: (8) didn't really try to much dribbling love the passing to much

Goalkeepers: (8) didn't see anything badly wrong with the keepers does seem improved from last year

Freekicks: (9) always loved the freekick system anyway

Penalties: (1) harsh maybe but i hated the penalties on pes2010 and i've had 3 so far and missed all

Skills: (9) loving them i find them pretty easy to do good way to win freekicks
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Good points: Feels like you have complete control love it after playing this one even with its faults i could never play the old ones now.

Bad points:
CPU kicksoff for you.

Bad camera angles in replays of fouls & freekicks.

CPU sometimes does sliding tackles for you.

Don't like the camera angle at kickoff taks a few seconds to get to the one you set it to.

Offside problem still seems to be there maybe its the way i play i just think half the time the player whos in an offside position should not be just makes no sense to why he was that far at the pitch im sure some of you will understand what im saying.

Players doing bicycle kick when they should'nt be.

Penalised for well time tackles


Can't think of anymore for now even tho i put more bad points than good i do really like the game much better than pes 2010.

PLEASE LISTEN PES TEAM

been playing pes since pes 5.
what I like:
good online modes.

what I don't:
pes 08, 09 and 2010 were arcade games on ps3.

pes 2011 normal gamplay setting has got to be as true to life as possible.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6ncq3RwaPA

A great goal which shows the attacking ability of the AI(Professional)

stret said:

Can't believe people are rating the graphics so highly.

May be it's just me and my TV (although I have HD), but in game the graphics are awful, everything has jaggedy lines and is rough around the edges, looks like a PS2 game.

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on the ps3 settings turn off the deep colour setting, the same happened to me after the fw 3.4

danzine said:

so they brought that back oh noes

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STUPID KONAMI, there is an option to turn it on and off, and konami always leaves it on by default, WTF!!!

Fantastic demo. It has its errors and bugs but they are so small compared with the quality of the gameplay. I´m not gonna ruin the game for myself just because I don´t like the boots, nets or something stupid like that. It´s a wonderful game.

amazing demo! No doubt its going to be the most realistic football game available on the market when its released ! Why the daam video always keep playing after the demo ?

Graphics: (7.5) slightly better than last year but not very impressive.

Sound: (6.0) fair

Commentary:

Menu: (9.0) very well presented.

Shooting: (6.5) realistic but feels a bit floaty sometimes..

Passing: (9.5) the best thing about pes 2011.

Dribbling: (7.5) realistic but too easy

Goalkeepers: (7.0) improved but are not fixed completely

Freekicks: (7.0)

Penalties: (5.0) bad

Skills: (7.0)

Being in the U.S. I went out of my way to get a UK PSN card and plus from the UK store. When I frist started playing the demo I wasn't sure it was worth the effort to play it early. After getting to grips with the passing I am loving the demo. the passing and crossing are fantastic IMO. I personally would like a player run button like fifa has but I did notice as others have if you mess with tactics and user R2 they will make runs. You really can play some slick football when the passing comes off which it doesn't always which is a good thing IMO.

At the moment, I can't stop playing the demo the good thing is that it took time to grow on me which reminds of the good PES games of the past. The more I play it the more I enjoy which is a good sign IMO.

Have to admit it after reading through this thread I'm falling into the trap again of thinking it's going to be great...

MY opinion for PES 2012:

motion-captured ball movement and better players reaction and coalition.

Just got a few games of the PC version and I'm holding out on giving my verdict until I play it on PS3 tomorrow. My PC is old enough now and her poor heart isn't as strong as it used to be.

Graphics: Graphics are pretty much the same from last year, just a bit more detailed.

Sound: Haven't noticed a lot of difference, don't really pay attention to it.

Commentary:

Menu: Very slick and modern menus.

Shooting: Shooting is better than last year, but i think the shots are a bit too powerful and they don't seem to come down once they hit the air.

Passing: Passing is just amazing, the way you can spread the ball all around the pitch, anywhere you like. Got to be the strongest point about PES this year.

Dribbling: The dribbling looks realistic and it feels great when you get it right.

Goalkeepers: Keepers have been improved but not as much as i expected. Even though the new animations look really good.

Freekicks: Same as last year but it feels a bit different. Maybe because of the amount of power in the shots. A bit unrealistic at times, as i took a free kick straight at the keeper and it rocketed over his head.

Penalties: Haven't had any yet.

Skills: Skills seem to be great if you can pull them off, still haven't figured out how to link them.