Mostly miss. And I've been playing it for at least an hour a day since it was released.
I've bought every version of this game since the ISS Pro days on the PSX. I thought this current game is an improvement over 06, but not much. While there's still elements in the game that remind why I love the series, there are several things that drive me batty.
- The goalkeepers. They drop the ball like a bar of soap.
- The defenders. The amount of times I notice mine and the opposing team's defenders make way/flee from attackers is laughable. It's the reason games end up 5-3 in a 10 minute match.
- The referee. It seems like every single foul results in a yellow card.
- Network play. We all know about the lag but, maybe it's just me, the gameplay also seems to have been stupidly speeded up just for this mode. The result is almost FIFA-esque type of matches. Everyone places a speed merchant on the wings, receives the ball, and is able run past the entire team while your players are helpless to do anything about it or are doing their best to run away from him. I've played over 50 matches online now, and I've noticed the majority of goals I'm conceding are by the other player dribbling past my entire team from the wings.
PES 5 was almost perfection. The physics and gameplay were spot on, and dribbling past players was much harder and realistic than it is now. Please Konami, give the next game PES 5's physics and gameplay, make the goalkeepers, defenders and referees not as moronic and you've got the perfect football game.