both are different in their ways
Becks 07 said:
Hi bonk!would you say the 5* on WE 8 is harder than in WE 7?
well, personally for me, WE8 level 5 is harder.
with a big but, though (which left me a bit dissappointed). it`s good that they made the scoring harder, the keeper better (still with some grave mistakes though), and the defenders gain on you from behind much faster once you broke through the defense line, so you never get much time to think when you`re rushing to a one on one with the keeper (okay, if you happen to be henry, saviola or martins the situation is different). and you can get your mates to press on the ball-leading player (create realistic 2on1 or 3on1 situations). that`s all good points. they sort of make the play abit more demanding. against that i struggle with majorly 2 big minus points. the player response is unrealistically sloooow, which is extremely frustrating for me as i was used to organize my defense line manually (clicking through the defense and adjusting their positions toward the opponent player, since you couldn`t sum 2 or more players together in WE7). actually defense was my master skill in WE7 so the goals i conceived were usually only dead ball situations or due to another excentric performance of my keeper (daydreaming or running off the pitch to see some friends or stuff like that). another point is the computer IQ. when it comes to your own defense men, it`s just stupidity all over their face. and overall, it`s sad that there is absolutely no midfield play. it just goes from defense to attack in less than 2 seconds (sadly reminds me of FIFA).
there is one more (smaller) issue that bugs me at times. you only can get booked when a badly timed sliding goes wrong (except in the penalty box). but when you`re breaking through the last line (and after that it would be just you and the keeper) or when counterattacking (somewhere on the opponent`s side), and you get fouled by the last man who used any other technique than sliding, the man never gets booked (let alone seeing the red card). that`s really a pain.
so overall i liked the level 5 of WE7 in a way, but the scoring was too easy and i also like WE8`s level 5 for the improved keeper, but the play on the pitch (like midfield) got too easy. so i`m desperately hoping for the 6th level to correct some of the mentioned points (although i reckon that the com enemy will simply play all the 90min in that crazy speed they switch to when they`re usually behind in the score).
always wondered why doesn`t konami just drastically improve the com enemy defense and ball-keeping abillity of a team when it comes to level 5 (or 6) instead of raising the game speed so that the players scurry all over the place like some roadrunners or smth.
but i don`t want to say too many bad things, the game still is very good and it`s loooots of fun...