I was thinking of buying FIFA in all honesty, just because I've been playing FIFA 11 regularly over the course of last year and have gotten used to its gameplay. But after 20ish games of the PES12 demo, I have to say there's no way I'm moving to FIFA!
Sure there maybe the little niggles in the gameplay, but FIFA also has its faults. And if any FIFA fan tries to deny that, then I ask them if they have ever shouted "***** pass the ball/****** shoot!!!" at the TV.
Anyway, back to PES, I tried a typical Paul Scholes pass.. you know, one of them ones when he'd pick the ball out in the middle of the park and hit a long ball for Valencia to go and fetch in the corner, only I passed it with Anderson to Young, and it worked an absolute treat!!
It looked and felt so realistic.. I tried the same thing moments later but the ball was intercepted, so I was glad that the game isn't repetitive.
That really sums up the game for me... It's realistic and feels so natural and smooth. Like I said, the one or two niggles need to be sorted, but those who say KONAMI has messed up, then ask yourselves, 2 years ago, you wanted 360 degrees dribbling, better animationz, etc. KONAMI has done well to implement these things over the course of the last 2 years, so why are you guys complaining that they aren't doing anything?? FIFA would probably be a whole lot different if they too had a feedback forum, so this is where KONAMI have done well.
However, I'm not backing KONAMI up completely, because they try to fix unbroken things, which then end up breaking. Eg I had a goal that should have been ruled off for offiside. Yeah, they could have added a new feature called 'controversy', but my player was a good 4 yards offside and nobody on the opposing team complained. They also tried to fix penalties last year, but we all know how that turned out...
And I agree with the counter-attack post above, it's been a problem for ages and needs to be addressed...