2009?????, Whats gone wrong.
I can not say i don`t like PES, just shocked at how poor, the game has become. I used to buy both PES and Fifa versions. From 2002 - 2006, PES was the clear winner, then FIFA released 2007, and suddenly i realized FIFA was going in the right direction(proper gameplay), But this years fifa gameplay is rubbish. So back to the best gameplay, game for football, and to my shock its got so poor. PES was all about gameplay, with a basic manager mode, plus a couple of other options which was enough. Now we have gimmicks, with the gameplay affected.
What has happened to passing. Before you new when you pressed the pass button, depending how long the button is pressed the ball travelled. Now you do not have a clue, Tap the button the ball will go short, next, tap the button the ball will go long. It does not matter if the player is full strength or has no strength, its more a lottery.
One minute the pass goes in the direction the stick is pressed, occaisonally a few degrees out, the next it will almost travel 90 degrees in the wrong direction. I would rather my pass be intercepted than go in a totally wrong direction.
Players making runs when attacking, Half the time they are running in the opposite direction. In the past a good build up, finish off with a goodthrough ball and your player would run onto it, or be off-side if you left it too late, now you don`t know which direction they will run, even though you have edited the player to run in the direction of the opposition`s box.
Opposition players with the ball running straight through you, i had to look twice, Yet you run into any player even the ref and you are more likely to lose the ball(possible bug)
Curser has alife of its own, eventhough the manual says you now have total control. Even the settings have been changed so i have total control, it still it jumps about. This would be fine, by why 40% of the game, its the player further away from the ball. yet you have 2 nearer the ball and by the time you clik to change the player its too late.
Goalkeepers are just rubbish. Decision making has been removed and its more about luck, especially your own.
Invisable wall around opposition players, your players stopping running, to the point of no movement even though they are cursered and you are pushing the direction stick. This used to be a free roaming game. Letting you make a decision, sometimes you got it right sometimes wrong. Now there are limitations, why.
Maybe the game design team felt it became too easy even on the hardest level, but that should not mean placing restrictions on your players or maybe the team did not work so hard on the PC version, i just cannot understand it.
Just one thing that stand out for me in a good way are the graphics(after playing on PS2 anything is better). But thats it what a shame.
Maybe a few patches over the year, may help iron a few problems out, but i dou`t it.
