the old man
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Ok, my turn. Graphically, it's brilliant. Really quite stunning. Getting to the stage where you don't know how much more realistic it can get. The presentation and structure of the game is great, the direction that ML is going is really exciting, and not far off being playable as a manager game on it's own. The fact that you can edit and customise almost everything has been a staple of OCD ridden PES lovers for years, and this continues nicely.
Anyway, enough praise. You'll notice I haven't actually mentioned anything to do with the gameplay yet, and with good reason I think. Although it's nice that they are trying to take steps forward from the slightly arcadey PES of recent years, the changes this year are abit too radical and nowhere near refined enough. In the past, I could play for hours, take big bites out of seasons in one sitting, but now that is not so. I've found myself just having to switch off after a couple of games in annoyance.
Responsiveness is an issue, particularly in terms of shooting. Lots of people have said this and I agree, it seems to be VERY hard to hit it first time and get a decent header on it. This is particularly annoying for someone who likes to get it out wide.
I could go on, but I can't be arsed. To sum up, most reviews from mags and websites have been very good, undeservedly so. For me it's definitely in the sort of 6 out of 10 category, i.e. good but with reasonably big flaws. Mainstream reviewers just don't have the bollocks to give it a bad (or even mediocre) review because they don't want to appear to be biased in a two horse race. Plus, think about it, these guys review all the games that come out, so how much time can they really devote to each one..?
i totally agree , the game play is nothing like it used to be on ps2 , or even on 2008 ps3 ....we dont have control over players or the ball or the passing anymore