guys i know what your thinking and you must think im crazy for thinking that we6 is better then we8, but to me it is soo much better and these are my reasons.
1. Game speed- Obviosuly WE8 is better then FIFA, but compared to WE6, WE8 seems so much more faster gameplay and just in general more FIFA'ish feel to the game. The guys would just blast the ball into perfect spots unlike WE6 which just seemed so much more real ( they could still do beautiful shots in WE6 though).
2. Passing in the air/crossing - In WE6 the passes in the air felt so much better and realistic, sometimes they would pass it a bit more diagnol sometimes a little less harder etc most of the times went where u wtryin to make it go, but in WE8 its almost always either stright up or down, or straight left or right, not always though. And even if they do do a smi decent long pass, they are usesless because 80 percent of the times they are more accurate towards the other teams player then your player.
3. Goalies - Well they are great it seems, apart from the fact that half the times they just stand there and let the ball fly by, even if it just skims the post too, or sometimes they even get scored on and they dont even move. They dont turn there head in the "surprised I have no chance" type of thing like i see them do sometimes in WE6 and 8, but its as if the goalie is just standing there daydreaming its *bleep*ed.
4. Teammate AI and opponent AI- It seems they have no common sence they will just let balls go right beside them and not even care its so un WE'ish. Like when passing a ball they just stand there and wait for it, in WE6 I could make my guy run towards it so much better then in WE8.
5. Turn Around Long Pass- If you have your back towards the opponents goal and you wanna do a long pass, instead of the player turning around and then passing, he either passes it in the complete opposite direction (towards your goalie), or he'll send it in some random direction most of the time out of bounds, even if you are aiming in the right direction.
6. Pressure checking- Well in WE6 when pressing the Pressure checking button the guy would try to obviously check the other player, but in WE8 unless ur 1 inch away from the guy he wont even do anything, he wont even make the pressure checking animation, I constantly run towards a guy either head on or at an angle or whatever and while running at him pressing the Pressure Check button and unless the player is dead on with him, he will just keep on running past him even if you are constantly hitting the pressure check button, its like they dont see the guy with the ball. If he happens to be really close while you push the buttn he might try to take it, but if hes not an inch away then he'll just keep running lookin for someone to pressure check, like they are completely oblivious.
7. Excitment - Yes they got the Serie A full License but for some reason when me and all my friends played WE6 we would go crazy on the free kicks, fouls, goals, saves, everything, just like in a real life game, but in WE8 its soooo much more less intense, it feels like it doesnt mean as much when something really good or bad happeens your just not in it like u are with WE6.
8. General feel - Ok WE6 most of the times just in general what you do in real soccer you do in WE6 also, you didnt need to get used to the way the game felt to be able to score or do whatever it was just whatever worked in real life worked in the game. Sometimes pass, sometiems rush the ball, sometimes hold back, sometimes using alot of chip passes, sometimes lots of through balls, using a misture of passong types etc etc and you can do all this stuff like real soccer. But in WE8 just the general feeling of the game is that in general to score most goals you just have to send through balls past the defence and score. Thats what I used to do to score in FIFA, so un WE'ish. I mean in WE6 I could do that too but I could just build the play up so many different ways, without even having to adjust the strategy, positioning etc etc. I mean you could shoot the ball from far and try to make nice plays for fun but its rarely neccesary in WE8. In WE6 though, sometimes you would have to shoot from far and do different stuff cause you just couldnt get the through balls through the defence, sometimes u could sometimes u couldnt, so much more realistic. In WE8 it feels like I just gotta rpeat the same stuff over and over again to score. It just feels all more human like, more realistc in WE6.
Now one thing that I think maybe the problem is that supposedly the N.American copy, which I am playing is the same like feel physics stuff as the European version (PES4) not the real true WE8. And i heard some people saying that PES4 was infact sped up compared to original WE8 and some stuff about the shot and long pass accuracy probelms also, which were not present in the Original WE8. So maybe thats the problem, I also wanted to point out that I never have played WE7, Just WI6 and WE8 for Xbox.
Thank you guys I just needed to get this off my chest after expecting the best soccer game ever, which almost everyone says it is and which I felt the first time I played WE6 couple years ago. And by the way I tried putting that auto help stuff on max, middle and manual didnt really help, although it did feel a little better on manual. Honestly It just seems like Konami tried adding a bit of FIFI'ish style play maybe to make more N. American crowd like the game i dunno, there are cool things like hand balls and goals called off due to offsides and stuff like that but lets face it those things dont change the actual feel for the game. I have played about 6 or 7 games at 15 minutes each so its not like i need to get used to this one, I havent played WE6 since like a year ago and didnt play it a whole lot, I didnt own it. I never had to get used to WE6 to play, i just thought like i did in real soccer and it worked. Most things just responded and acted better according to my controller inputs in WE6.
Thanx again!
p.s. Officially here in N.America it is called World Soccer Winning Eleven 8 Internation
