Do you know the link to the videos for WE United vs. PES United gameplay?
the seabass interview
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I personally found the fifa demo so slow in gameplay terms i could loose the ball upfront, go downstairs, make a sandwhich, make a drink, eat it at the table and by the time i'd done all that and come back upstairs they would of probably made it to the halfway line. The game speed is too slow in fifa and the pitch need to be bigger to speed it up. An annoying thing is that shooting sometimes is like kicking a balloon. Long ball hang in the air like a flying squirrel and the ball is just too light. Yes you can pull of good shots but most of the time it goes over and they run the same 'ball going over the bar' annimation time after time where each shot going over goes over at the same height. In pes i can score screamers. In Fifa its just a test of not kicking the balloon too hard and maybe it'll slowly go in.
Imo you can judge alot from demo's. In this case the demo is atleast an 85% build so its almost what it will be. I recently downloaded the 2008 demo again to get a feel for pes since i sold my copy 6 months ago and the two are almost identicaly bad. Not many differences atall. They were similar in alot of aspects, especially in graphical terms. And imo you arent a hypocrit for thinking that there wont be an improvement on gameplay in the demo because for all you know fifa may not improve that much on their demo and pes might really pull some strings so saying "fifa demo was crap", and then saying "The pes demo was early build, give it time", may not actually be that wrong in the end because imo pes has alot more potencial to make noticable changes than fifa if they need to in the gameplay dept. Imo opionon playing fifa 09 is exactly like 06 as ive seen them both in quick succession round my firends house and a few mates laughed at that fact. The graphics have changed but game speed in fifa is and always will be slower than pes and more importantly the real thing. Pes 09 is quite different compared to 06 though and they are making "crucial changes to gameplay" which i can already see and the pace of the players and ball is getting ever closer to the real deal.
All in all Fifa is a major flop as the demo is so boring they'd have to take about 10 years to get to what i'd call 'fluid, free flowing football'. Im not saying fifa is a really bad game but it just wont be as fun to play as pes.
