Well I'll make a confession, I didn't know that R1 dropped the ball, I was too busy frantically hammering away at the x button to throw it out while my goalkeeper just stood there, and, like it or not, this is a problem that still hasn't been fixed.
As for super cancel, I do know about that. It is useful for through balls when your player seemingly wants to walk alongside the ball rather than control it. However, it is impossible to do super cancel when you are not even in control of hte player running for the ball, and sometimes you simply cannot react quick enough to change to the player (if you play in manual as I do) and do super cancel aswell. This is an issue no matter how you look at it.
I understand that Konami cannot do all that they want to do on this system, but there are certainly things which they could have implemented that they haven't.
I've never been one to go with the flow on anything, or be brainwashed by the various media out there. I remember playing Fifa when it first came out way back in around `93 and the reviews it got were amazing. When I actually played hte game I was bitterly disappointed though. You could NOT pass. And when I say that, I mean you actually could not make more than one pass without losing possesion. You had to employ this technique where you hit the ball from your own penalty area to the opponent's, and then had a shot into the top corner, and vice versa. It made for a game that was rather more similar to tennis than footy.
But it had a big fat "94%" sticker on the box, and virtually every reviewer gave it high ratings, based solely on the fact that it was the first game to feature semi-realistic crowd noise. It really was a breakthough in that category, and is the reason Fifa has the commercial success it does today.
But the game itself was crap. Yet nobody seemed to notice.
Now I am not for one moment saying that pro evo is crap, or even a slightly bad game. Yet it seems that certain people are falling into the same category as those fifa fans out there when it comes to criticism of their favourite game.
It's as if pro evolution can do no wrong in the eyes of some people, and that is when the developers start getting a tiny bit lazy, no matter how much you'd like to admit it.
Pro evo is still a fantastic game, but could, and should be improved a hell of a lot more than it was, regardless of the system's lack of firepower.
I wonder when another game will hit the market that actually challenges the team at Konami to push the bar just that little bit further, because EA certainly aren't doing it.
I can't help giving the producers the benefit of the doubt here, because they've provided us with over 5 solid years of fantastic football, and also have to keep the PS3 in mind, but that still doesn't help me get away from the feeling of disappointment I had when I spent months anticipating this new game, only to be introduced to the exact same one as before, only with a few small changes, and even those ones were arguably not for the better.
