Not impressed with PES 2012 at all, I used to play PES on top player, if i do that with 2012 I get battered 5-3 or some daft result like that, defending is shit and is not balanced with the difficulty. If I play on Top player scoring is hard enough to not be too hard but defending is a pain, so i knock it down to professional, which makes defending a little easier but you score 7 goals a game because scoring is too easy.
I have read god knows how many posts on how to defend even people saying they "enjoy" it. Well I don't like having average players dancing past my defence at will and when I do put a foot in it's a foul, and as this is PES, free kicks on Top player just outside the box are goals 11 times out of 10.
Keepers are shite, even with the 1.01 patch although not quite as shite as they were on release.
And the new Master league offline, oh dear god. 1 thing that I hated about ML, was players moaning about not being played after missing one game, this used to happen if there were great players that you may have been resting. Now every player and his dog comes up at some point asked whey they missed a game, you can give them an answer but none of the options are:-
"Coz your overall rating is 54, and I have 3 other players better than you for that role, you useless moron"
The game play might be a learning curve but why making defending so hard and scoring so easy, I never get a game thats 0-0 or 2-0 etc...there all 5-4 every game. Realistic?? No it's not.
Fifa brought out a new defending system this year and as boring as Fifa is at least it works.
Pes 2012 new system might work, but it doesn't scale well with the level you play at. I even tried a game on Regular for a laugh and still was unable to keep a clean sheet 8-3 that one ended up.
I'll give it a few weeks, but tbh, I don't think I'll be playing this for long. I though 2011 although had it's faults was a step in the right direction, but to me all the ground that was made up last year has been lost with this version.
I'm sure a lot of you love the game and the lines like "best PES since PES 6" will be flying around again. But for me no, this is a poor example of a football game, thats more frustrating than enjoyable.